{"id":177,"date":"2006-07-26T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2006-07-26T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T23:09:06","slug":"rogers-killing-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Killing Extreme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a letter today saying that the price of my Rogers Extreme service will go up by $7\/month (15%) starting August. Apparently, they haven&#8217;t even properly told their CSRs, who are mostly finding out from irate customers who&#8217;ve been getting these letters this week and calling to complain.<\/p>\n<p>I have to wonder if Rogers is trying to kill off its extreme tier of service now. This is a substantial price increase for a fairly marginal increase in speeds (more than double upload, and almost double the cap, but only going from 5 to 6 Mbps down). They even encourage people to downgrade to the &#8220;express&#8221; tier in the notice.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: that seems to be the current conspiracy theory: Rogers&#8217; network couldn&#8217;t handle the extra upload of extreme, and throttling has largely been circumvented lately, so they&#8217;re now trying to kill off the tier (or really make people pay for the upload bandwidth &#038; cap) by upping the downstream speed of express (it&#8217;s already where extreme was 2 years ago) and encouraging people to switch down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a letter today saying that the price of my Rogers Extreme service will go up by $7\/month (15%) starting August. Apparently, they haven&#8217;t even properly told their CSRs, who are mostly finding out from irate customers who&#8217;ve been getting these letters this week and calling to complain. I have to wonder if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}