| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I figure I ought to start figuring out what's involved with Rogers setup | these days given that's what I will end up with next September when I | move to a new house. I am pretty sure a new development won't have any | copper phone or cable connections, just fiber, and rogers service is | included in the price of the house for the first year, so I figure I | might as well use it. At least a few years ago, many developers sold exclusive access to a development to Bell or Rogers (or perhaps other companies). Exclusivity was about 5 years. I have no idea whether it would be economical for the other suppliers to support an already fully-booked neighbourhood after the exclusivity expired. Yet another monopolistic game. Rogers FTTH is something I don't know much about. It's not like what we have at the moment (and what the vast majority of older neighbourhoods have). I'm not sure what that service looks like but I understand that upload speeds are much improved. Bell is slow to replace copper with fibre, but Rogers is much slower at replacing coax last mile (I'm a little fuzzy on the architecture of cable).