I've just bought a house and will move in in a few weeks time, I had checked the street and saw it had cable so I called TC to have my cable internet connection reconnected at the new address. They said it was all fine, no problem.
Had a cable guy ring today to say that the nearest pole was on the other side of the street, halfway down the road, and to make matters worse my house is on a back section, total of 85m distance. Said that they'll do up to 70m for free, but the excess 15m I'll have to pay $30/metre = $450!
Does this sound reasonable?? I see Dick Smith has quality cable for about $3/m. Sure they've got to dig some holes, auger between and patch them up, but they'd be doing that anyway if the pole was closer. Hmm I wonder if they'll let me run my own cable along the driveway fenceline and they can join it at the start of the drive? :)
It's a bit frustrating, as a few months back I got a VOIP router, ditched my landline, yay! and I've just got used to using the much cheaper (well actually its been free) and better VFX voip phone service,
$450 seems a lot but I worked out that If i end up just going with a Telescum line and an ADSL service I'll eventually over two years be paying more than $450 in extra monthly charges and get a crappier service.
Then again if I go with the $450 install, a couple of months later Telescum will probably end up allowing naked DSL connections on their lines and I'll be kicking myself. (Does anyone here know if this is ever likely to happen in the near future?)
At the moment I've cancelled the install, while I decide. A $450 bill at this time is not the most welcome on top of the lawyer fees and new big mortgage to pay!
In another thread I was reading that TC were giving $100 Noel Leeming vouchers if you move house and reconnect with TC. Does anyone know if this applies to cable only connections or was it just with their phonelines? Maybe I can hit them up for that to soften the blow a bit.
What would you do?