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By: Goodbye Bell, Hello Teksavvy « MoneySense

Goodbye Bell, Hello Teksavvy « MoneySense — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:03:47 +0000

[...] been Bell Internet customers for a long time. In the past, I’ve considered leaving Bell but whenever I grumbled about high prices, Bell almost always offered a discount on the regular rate. The catch is the discounts are offered for a limited time (six months or one year) and when the [...]

By: Goodbye Bell, Hello Teksavvy | Canadian Capitalist

Goodbye Bell, Hello Teksavvy | Canadian Capitalist — Tue, 17 May 2011 03:23:55 +0000

By: Phaedrus

Phaedrus — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:45:09 +0000

I just did the same thing. We were paying 80 dollars a month for the 6meg high speed, and rogers landline phone.

Called them up, told them about the Acanac.ca offer: $237 for the 1st year. Which is $19 a month. for 5meg highspeed DSL service. $8 for a dry line (phone jack with no service), And $10 for a VOIP phone. OR you could just go with Skype’s VOIP service which is even cheaper.

ANyways. I would totally have gone for this deal, but I didn’t like to pay for 1 year advance. I don’t know where I will be in a few months. Don’t want to lock myself down.

So I called up Rogers, and they offered us discounts to bring our bill down to 50 a month for everything for 6 months.

Cool with me. I would be paying 37/month for Acanac. And that’s a VOIP phone instead of a home phone. AND no contract, nothing. That’s worth 13 bucks a month to me.

Thanks guys! Great savings information.

-Stephen

By: Money Matters! / Reading Canadian financial blogs

Money Matters! / Reading Canadian financial blogs — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:28:24 +0000

[...] One way blogs can build audiences for themselves, I believe, is through personalization of content — especially when the stories from a blogger’s world provide useful tips, lessons, and motivation for others. Consider these examples: Canadian Financial DIY’s worse investment ever Canadian Capitalist wins a discountCanadian Financial Stuff’s reason for financial planning On another matter, Investing Intelligently takes an independent stand on certain practices in the blogosphere such as i) link exchanges (where blog rolls reflect less what’s worth reading and more who links back to you), ii) collaborative agreements (e.g. John Chow’s trading of links for reviews of his site), and iii) demos/posts on certain topics, products etc. in return for monetary compensation or favors. As Investing Intelligently says in Things You’ll Never Hear Me Blog About: “On the topic of annoying things, I have been receiving an incessant amount of offers these days via email for link sharing, collaborations, requests to demo debt consolidation software …. [which I delete].” His readers can take comfort, he says, that his content comes “straight from the heart.” [...]

By: KS

KS — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:05:03 +0000

Hi CC,

Great post. You inspired me to look at my own
internet and phone bills. I realized that I am
paying way too much and can get better service
for less money.

Currently I’m paying:
Local Phone (plus one feature): $29.12+tax = $33.20
Internet Hi-speed Lite (128kbps): $24.94+tax = $26.69

So that comes out to $59.89 for phone and 128kbps internet.

Primus is offering local phone service (not VOIP) and
internet access (512 kpbs) for $34.95+tax = $39.84
$20/month cheaper than what I’m paying now. Thats a saving of $480 over 2 yrs and I get faster internet access.

If you add one feature to the local phone service with Primus plus hi-speed internet (512kpbs) it costs $45.54 with tax still $14.35 cheaper per month.

Here’s the link to their Triple Bundle offer:
http://www.primus.ca/en/residential/bundle/bundledServices-bundlelite.htm

Thanks again for the great post, and helping your readers to save money.

By: larry macdonald

larry macdonald — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:33:43 +0000

Great post. A personal interest story with a very useful message for all. Will link to it (after RRSP) season to let my readers know. By the way, thanks for listing me in your Canadian Financial Blogs section. But I notice the listing is appended to the listing for Inveting Intelligently. Might be better to separate it with a space.

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:04:43 +0000

My friend who has NCF says that his internet service is great. It does go down once in a while but nothing really bad.

I would still have switched to NCF, but then I have to buy a modem and co-ordinate the change. So, for now, I am sticking with my current provider.

By: Investor

Investor — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:16:48 +0000

Try out http://www.acanac.ca they have a great service, I just switched to them from bell, I am getting it for $18.00 per month for unlimited download high speed service. I was paying over 30$ with bell.

http://ridetomilliondollars.blogspot.com

By: Jon D.

Jon D. — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:49:07 +0000

My mother in law has high-speed through NCF and it’s great. If I didn’t get a deal through work, I’d switch.

By: PhilC

PhilC — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:05:43 +0000

Anjo,

Switching ISP is extremely simple. Plus it’s not just a few bucks. In this case it’s 15$ a month, almost 200$ a year. That’s a nice meal or even better it’s the expense fees on 10,000$ of your favorite bank’s mutual funds.

I have done it twice already. Once for better service (I wanted a static IP at home) and once for better price. In both cases it took about 5 business days to complete the switch and service interruption was about 3 hours.