If you lived in Saskatoon, you'd have DOCSIS 3.0 by now.
Shaw Cable has started offering DOCSIS 3.0 services to its customers in Saskatoon. (If you read my personal blog you already know this.)
The interesting part (besides the obvious "why Saskatoon" question) is that you practically need to claim to live there to get any sort of details on the service.
So here are the details for you curious folk:
- 100Mbps download
- 5Mbps upload
- $249.95/month (ouch!)
- 400GB transfer cap
To be completely honest the price does seem a little high. The $199.95 price point would likely have served them better. Once you add phone service and tax you are looking at a $300 bill without cable.
This also makes the "Server Connect Package" a complete joke coming in at $299.95. It was overpriced regardless.
And just to be complete, last month Telus also upped their service speed to 15Mbps by introducing a High Speed Turbo plan for $50.95. Which at first glance looks to be the same as Shaw’s Extreme-I service. Just to be clear though, it is not: for Telus 15Mbps is as fast as possible and the Shaw service sustains 15Mbps with burst at rates up to 25Mbps.