Another ISP provider is www.lightspeed.ca. They provide naked ADSL. Half decent rates. Decent speeds. You can get a static IP relatively cheap. If no active phone line, you pay an extra $10 a month as a tariff to pay for the infrastructure from your place to the switching location. They are a smaller company so basic support service. You get a real person when you phone as well. I've been with them for 2 years now and only have had a couple of outages that were annoying. They seem to have 99%+ uptime.
As far as cell providers, good luck. I'm with Telus using their new 3G network and it has been relatively painless. Service has been good. The growing pains was with Customer Service and their learning how to do things on the new service. They seem to have eased up on their lock-everything-down philosophy that they used to have and are now somewhat pleasant to deal with. Last time I had looked, I didn't notice much difference in pricing between Telus, Roger's, and Bell. All the best with your move to Calgary. Cheers! ~Neil On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Lance A. Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > Everything is proceeding (relatively) smoothly for our move from North > Carolina to Calgary at the end of the month. We are planning on > arriving on the 28th and unpacking over the weekend. Finally, some > concrete dates for all this! > > Anyway, I'd like to ask for your input on: > > ISP Service: Need network connectivity at home, broadband is a must. > > Cellular service: lived on our cell phones for years now. Since it > appears I can't just take my AT&T iPhone up there and make it work on > whomever's network supports them in Calgary, I'm open to all takers. I > will likely sell my iPhone and either purchase one there, or perhaps get > an Android of some sort. > > Who do you like, not like, recommend? > > Thanks! > > --[Lance] > > -- > GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 > CACert.org Assurer > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
