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SaskTel - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Why I didn’t know that sooner ?

Is there any Saskatchewanean (???) in the room that could give me a « on the ground » critic of their services ?

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[–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have lived my life in Saskatchewan, when I see people say how much their bills are I can tell if they are in Saskatchewan or not. Having real competition rocks.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Yep. Not sure of it’s still true recently but I know last time I looked up pricing between other carriers the prices in Sask were about $20/month lower than other provinces. Presumably this is due to Sasktel providing real competition and providing real service in rural areas.

    Shitty think is they’ve kind of been limited by the Sask Party preventing them from providing services outside Saskatchewan, even if those services were profitable and bringing money into the province.

    On the home internet side, Sasktel has always seems to have more consistent service, more upload bandwidth and no bandwidth limits. I even tested out some online backup systems, uploading about 20 TB/month for a few months straight and never heard anything about “excessive” usage. As far as I know they don’t do any kind of traffic monitoring or shaping on their home internet services.

    They also have their own MVNO, Lüm Mobile, that can be pretty affordable for most users.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    The first time I heard of download/upload limits was cell phones, I was painfully aware of speeds as i grew up in the 90’s with a 14.4 k modem, but when I heard that people had limits on there download and upload on their home wired connection in the modern day was a surprise. I use several gigs a month, as I am sure many people do but if I take on a new project I do not need to think about the data usage.

    A few years ago my modem went out I called Sasktel and they said they would send someone to replace it but they would give me the equivalent of unlimited data on my cell phone (if I was not going to be using gigs a day).

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