So, I am setting up my utilities and service providers for my new apartment and I have a choice between:

- Basic cable or full cable (I am not that fussed, but can anyone tell me which channels I might get UK Premiership football on?!).
- Shaw or Telus for Internet
- Telus (or anyone else) for phone

Anyone got any advice? Please keep it relatively positive!! Some of the negativity on here makes me want to gouge out my eyeballs. I have just been dealing with NPower, NTL and BT here in the UK who all seem to pride themselves on employing brainless people who are fanatastically inept, so I am ready for anything.....

We are looking at this at the moment as we are headed for Calgary in the New Year.

You will need to state what requirements you have to obtain a specific answer: will you be calling overseas, if so where, how often, what speed internet do you require etc.

Shaw do a bundle for full cable, digital phone and 5mb broadband the price of which can be found here http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsSer...lesPricing.htm which may or may not suit you - there really is no "catch all" answer - you will have to tailor your packages to meet your requirements

HTH

Thanks for the reply. I looked into the Shaw bundles and they seem to be pretty good. I can get my head around which cable and internet service providers offer value-for-money, the phone companies are a different matter though. I am not sure whether Shaw digital phone is a bit over-priced (or necessary?!). I saw that Rogers do a basic phone package, plus unlimited UK calls 24/7/365, for $50pcm - $10 less than the Shaw digital phone price.

My research continues (to the cost of my output at work)......

Three saturday prem games are on Rogers Sportsnet

Champions League is on TSN

Additional Prem and CL games on the digital subscription chanel Fox Sportsworld Canada.

If you have broadband then nearly all games are available through live streaming at http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/

Brilliant! Thanks for the invaluable advice!!!
Do you know if I can get Rogers Sportsnet and TSN on basic cable (with Shaw?!), or do you need something super-duper extra?

Its Cogeco where I live, TSN is on basic, sportsnet is on the "plus" package. SOme of the England WC games were on Sportsnet (the two channels split the event), so I went up to plus for that, and have never quite got around to cancelling it again

Check the local providers websites, they will list whats in the various packages.

Dont forget satellite (Bell and Starchoice) is an option too, you dont have to limit yourself to cable.