Moving from Bell Fibe to TekSavvy fiber.

On hold as Bell tries to cook up some retention deal.

But it's too late. I've already ordered TS.

If Bell wanted to retain me, they should've applied their best price pro-actively, instead of gradually cancelling all my promotional rates.

TS also offers a static IPv4 for $4/m and also provides IPv6 service, which probably makes the static IPv4 unnecessary.

huh, after being on hold for 10m, I was surprised they didn't bother to make a retention attempt. Maybe that's gone out of style.

Other than the complex cancellation of promotions that caused the price to climb way above going market rates, the Bell Fibe internet service was great. I don't think it was ever down. Even after the derecho wiped out Barrhaven's power for 2 weeks.

TV: was OK. The box/app was pretty flaky.

Home Phone: never used. Thrown in for free...

@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca been thinking about this too.

I felt dirty when I ditched Start for Bell, but the fiber trucks had done their job and the fiber wasn't dark anymore, so the thought of 1Gbps was compelling.

Now that TekSavvy can resell I'll likely switch, but Bell's promotional rate still beats TekSavvy's rate after their promo ends.

I'd pay a premium to use TSI, but not that big of one...

@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca For 1.5 Gbps, apples-to-apples

• Bell, $135 - $55 = $80 pre-tax
• TSI, $120 - $20 = $100 pre-tax

So purely out of principle I would pay $5-$10 more monthly for TekSavvy/Start, but a 25% jump... The Bell folks did their math on that one.

I don't actually know when the promo ends, though, I should check.

@julian TS offers a static IP for $4. It's not normally available on a Bell residential service, was $36/month on a business service last I checked. No IPv6 on Bell residential.

As an existing Bell customer, I'd have to fight to get any promotional rates. Not worth it.

The principles matter to me.

@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca completely fair. It's obvious by what you said earlier that Bell has no intention of working to retain customers. Their focus is on poaching customers from resellers (aka me).

@johnefrancis Can you do me a favour while you're still on Bell and try to go to TheGladstone.ca and see if you can get there? It's and a few other .ca sites don't work for me without a VPN.

@Nerdfest works for me.

@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca @nerdfest@mastodon.online working here as well.