Shaw currently offers a download bandwidth of 25 Mbps, Videotron offers 20
Mbps, Telus offers 6 Mbps, Rogers offers 6 Mbps and Bell offers 5 Mbps. This
will soon change.
CBC.ca reports that Videotron Ltd. is planning in 2007 to roll out a new
high-speed internet service at least four times faster than current
offerings. The Montreal-based telecommunications provider said on Thursday that
it is testing a service that would let its customers achieve internet speeds as
high as 100 megabits per second (Mbps). A selected group of Videotron customers
in Montreal have been testing the new high-speed service for more than a month
and the company plans to continue tests for the next few months. The service
will be offered to more of its 769,000 internet service subscribers. According
to both Videotron and network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc., the new speeds
are possible due to a technological breakthrough. If only Rogers and Bell would
catch on and quit torturing all the Ontarians.