The broadband price war is finally heating up in
Western Canada.
Telus Corp. responded last week to Shaw
Communications Inc.’s incredibly good deal for ultra-high-speed Internet with a
killer promotion of its own.
Telus, the country’s third largest
telecommunications company, is offering a two-year contract for fibre Internet
with upload and download speeds of 150 megabits per second and a data cap of 1
terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) for $47 per month for the first three months and $85
per month after. It closely matches Shaw’s offering for 150 Mbps speeds with 1
TB of data for $49.90 per month for the first year and $79.90 for the second
year.
The move comes a month after Shaw launched its deal
and follows a few months of heavy promotional intensity in Ontario, where BCE
Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are duking it out for wireline customers
that increasingly demand faster speeds and larger data caps to accommodate their
increased use of video streaming services such as Netflix Inc.
Author: Emily
Jackson
