Not only to Canadians lay claim to some of the most expensive broadband among all developed countries it's also among the lowest quality, with numerous ISPs heavily throttling data and imposing unreasonably low caps and high overages in the HD video age. What are you to do if you're an ISP like Rogers and the data repeatedly shows Canadian broadband is expensive and heavily capped due to weak competition? You fund your own study. A new study funded by Rogers insists Canadians now enjoy some of the fastest and least expensive broadband service anywhere:
The report, based on the results of 52 million speed tests of broadband users across the G7 countries and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) membership, was produced by Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates Inc. on behalf of Rogers Communications Inc., the country's largest broadband service provider. It disputes the OECD's own report, published in July, that ranked Canada's high-speed Internet offerings significantly below those of other countries.
You really only have to look at Rogers prices and caps, our user reviews, and the fact that Rogers is among the worst ISPs when it comes to clumsy network management to understand why Rogers would want to fund a new study of their own contradicting all previous studies. The speed tests used by Rogers to declare themselves supreme winners of the Internet benefit from Speed Boost technology (known as Powerboost here in the States) and don't really consider usage limits or Rogers' tendency toward slowing down legitimate traffic.You can head to our Rogers forum to see exactly what the ISP's own users think about discovering they're getting such great broadband service.
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