Originally Posted by Almost Canadian

Are you sure that is correct? $116 sounds way too cheap for all of that. We pay $94.50 (I think) for digital phone and internet with them). We switched our cable provider to Star Choice from Shaw 2 years ago. I think it was 6 months or so later that Shaw purchased Star Choice.

I am just jealous of course

Originally Posted by jimf

How do you do that? Would it work with the basic Shaw Cable BOx?

Originally Posted by jericho

It's definitely all correct and legit.

$116 is not a huge drop from what I used to pay them anyway- about $130 a month. I pay around $135 to Telus at the moment. I'll gladly take $79 a month for the next 12 months and then $116 thereafter...

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian

So would I. Is it the full digital phone (1000 minutes a month to certain international numbers) and a full HD package?

Originally Posted by jericho

I had to pay $9 extra for the full HD package, but it is the full digital phone service- including free caller ID, 411, free long distance calls across North America.

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian

WOW, that it good. Guess who I will be calling tonight

Originally Posted by Steve_P

Are you already with Shaw?

If so don't count on getting this deal, they couldn't care less about customers they already have.

It's either a deal offered to lure you away from Telus or they offer an even better deal if you went with Telus and they want you back.

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian

I can go without interweb, TV and a landline for a week. Disconnect and reconnect is the plan - Whatchya think

Originally Posted by Steve_P

Might take longer than a week.

Or you could try telling them you are going with Telus, you want your account canceled and see what their retention people are willing to offer to keep you.

But from what I hear you do literally have to tell them to cancel your account.

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian

OK, looks like I'll be calling Telus then. Do Telus do contracts? What will I do with all my PVRs

Originally Posted by Steve_P

As far as I know Telus does do contracts, Shaw does not.

Also Telus high speed is not as fast as Shaw, at least so I'm told.

As for the PVRs keep them for when you go back to Shaw...because you will.

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian

Yeah, I have heard that Telus's service is not as good as Shaw's. Oh well, maybe I will stay with Shaw and scowl at Jericho for having been able to get such a good deal

Originally Posted by jericho

I had to pay $9 extra for the full HD package, but it is the full digital phone service- including free caller ID, 411, free long distance calls across North America.

Originally Posted by jericho

We've just had a bloke knock on the door, from Shaw, offering their new promotion.

For $79.99 a month you get:
- Digital phone service, including caller ID, free long distance calls in North America
- Digital cable, including 1 HD PVR and 1 Standard cable box
- all the channels in their Digital TV package
- High speed internet, with upgrade to the speed booster

For an extra $9 a month, we added the HD channel bundle.
This goes up to $116 after 12 months...
My normal bill with Telus is about $135, and I dont get any HD channels.

I signed up on the spot, and it all gets installed in 2 weeks.

For those who have bundles through Telus/Bell etc, you might want to keep an eye out for these guys if they come round....

Originally Posted by Steve_P

We've found that since going HD we very, very seldom watch the other digital channels anymore.

I just spoke with a Shaw customer care rep and she confirmed for me that although the website does not mention it you DO get the basic HD channels with Digital TV Basic ($35.95 per month).

So as an example our bill for TV, Internet, Digital phone lite and the extra HD channels will be $35.95+$35+$29.95+$9 = $109.90

We own both our Cable Modem for internet and the Digital Cable box for TV so there is no monthly rental charge for either of those.