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Originally Posted by McG
just for reference purposes...but what exactly is in that $84.95 bundle from telus?
thanks!
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I posted
here about a Telus plan I looked at for my Mom. The cost was $87 for the first year and then
The channel break down is in
this pdf, but the basic idea is if you sign up for 3 services for 3 years, the per month price for 1 year is $45 + whatever upgrades you want to your channels. You can only add the channels in the small, medium, large and "your pick" onto the contract price.
After 1 year, the discounts go away and you pay full price for the remaining 2 years, which for the Large TV package bundled with Internet and Phone is $123/month for the most basic phone service, or $162 a month for the fully featured phone service. The internet is 15MBs down, but that bandwidth is hurt by up to 3Mbs with every HD feed you have running on a TV. The Optik TV service, PVR Anywhere requires you to have a terminal (or xbox) at each PC. The cost per month is $10 per extra box ($5 for Xbox), or I think you can buy the boxes for ~$150. the extra box costs are occurred throughout the contract.
The Shaw offer is $85 for Extreme Internet, TV and Phone. the phone includes a bunch of long distance minutes and calling features, I think the equivalent of that for Telus runs between $142 and $160 a month ( after the first year) The TV being roughly equivalent and the Internet being virtually identical except it is
not hurt when you have your TV on.
Both the Bell and Shaw offers do not require a contract but expire after a year. You can then call back after a year to get whatever pricing they are offering at that point. With Telus you are locked in at the regular price unless you pay our your contract which I think was $10 a month.
Overall, Telus is a very good offer for the first year, but the numbers after that year are really scary, especially if you have the 3 year contract. The Sha offer (and the Bell 20% offer) both also only last for a year, but neither require signing a new contract. Also, if your internet speed is important to you, having a 3Mbs penalty for each TV you have on is pretty steep.