just wanted to give heads up to those of you who may have been approached by door to doore Telus Sales Team.
About 2 weeks ago 2 folks from the door to door sales team from telus showed up at my door. Their pitch was that Telus was installing Fibre to houses in the neighbourhood. This was a limited promotion, they were mobilizing equipment from peace river and would be installing fibre optic cable from the alley right into the house. Installation cost to me would be 0. They had lots of information on how Fibre to my house would increase the property value, provide unbottlenecked speeds and would essentially future proof the internet infrastructure.
I have been hoping for Fibre in the neighbourhood for a while, so I signed up. When I got the installation notice, I noticed that they had only allowed for 1.5 hours to do the install. I called Telus, sat on hold for 20 minutes, then hung up and contacted them through Twitter.
Turns out they are not installing Fibre, Never were any plans, the door to door sales team was pitching a complete lie. The service was to be delivered via bonded copper, over the existing phone lines in the area, which I am guessing are in the neighbourhood of 45 years old.
I cancelled my appointment, but I expect that some unsuspecting people are switching, thinking they are getting fibre, and not knowing the difference. My gut says that once the installer gets in your house you would have a terrible time trying to back out of the contract.
Just wanted to throw this out there in case anyone was in a simmilar situation. The main door to door Telus sales guy was a fellow by the name of Abdurrab Nasir, very slick, and obvioulsy very full of
