CBC internet connection speed story
If you live in Canada you likely have seen the canadian show marketplace which is on CBC. Its a consumer product review and scam buster type show. Its well known for its reporting.
Even if you do not live in Canada you should check out an archived story that they did lasy November about internet connection speeds. They performed two different types of tests that checked out the connection speed at peoples homes.
The show really sticks it to one of Canada’s biggest ISPs, Bell, but based on the test results its hard not to think that Bell is not delivering the goods. What is interesting is that their biggest competitor in some markets, Rogers, is even promoting the CBC marketplace story on their website as a selling tool. They are using the broadcast to back up their claim that their service is more reliable. Their service won the internet speed test and when one person on Rogers complained that they had slow internet connection speeds the tech person figured out its was her equipment and not Rogers.
The marketplace episode is located at www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2007/11/21/speed_bumps/
