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Originally Posted by anyonebutedmonton
2 Reasons:
1. You have to lock into a 3 year contract and after the first year your rates are jacked up.
2. Since your TV is through the internet it can cause a serious drain on your bandwidth when watching HD channels (slows down your internet)
Its a much better deal to call shaw and tell them what telus is offering, guaranteed they match it.
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Its not a much better deal if you like the service telus is giving you. PVR anywhere is a huge sell for me. My wife will be thrilled she can watch anything from pvr on any tv in the house. Will also make my home theater set up alot easier for her to use as well as there won't be a need for complicated switches anymore. Sure I can get 1 free pvr rental from shaw if I call retentions but by switching to telus I sell my one pvr with shaw and recieve a free pvr rental for 3 years and xbox that is also an hd reciever and can hook up my current x box as another. Now I have HD in the 3 areas I need it in my house instead of just 1 with shaw. While saving alot of money each month.
55 a month for all 3 services and 2 xbox's is 660 for the first year
If I cancel after that it would be 360 penelty. And get to keep an xbox
(10 dollars a month for each remaing month left. 24 for TV 12 for internet)
Totaling $1020
Shaw gives me a retention plan for $85 a month x 12 =1020 no free xbox.
It makes mathamatical sence to at least try telus for a year regardless. I won't be losing out on anything and I get a free xbox for my troubles