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Press Release: Announcing Worldline’s “Superhero Summer Savings”

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Announcing Worldline’s “Superhero Summer Savings”
Canada’s Best Value in Internet and Home Phone Just Got Better!

CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO–(06/10/14)- Summer is a time for saving at Worldline as Canada’s best value in High Speed Unlimited Internet and Home Phone bundles has slashed their pricing even further. In an aggressive move meant to shake up the Canadian telecom industry, for a limited time only Worldline is waiving all activation fees, all dry loop fees and cutting modem rental fees in half on all Unlimited High Speed Internet and Bundle FTTN DSL products.

Worldline customer invoices will show their monthly fee, their modem rental charge, taxes, and that’s it. No dry loop activation or monthly fees. No service activation fees. No network fees. No surprises.

“We are the Superhero Internet and Phone service provider in this country and to prove it, we’re not only continuing to provide Unlimited High Speed DSL Internet and Digital Home Phone with Unlimited Long Distance and a full feature package included at no extra charge, we’re making it even more affordable,” said John Stix – Worldline CMO.

“In an era where the Big Three are jacking up their rates and slapping data caps on their broadband Internet and Digital Home Phone customers, Worldline is listening to our customers and doing the exact opposite. The truth is, most Canadians don’t know that they have an option when it comes to their telecom service and they just accept outrageous price gouging as a fact of life. With this Superhero Summer Savings promo Worldline is showing Canadians they don’t have to take it anymore,” Stix concluded.

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About Worldline:
Worldline, the residential division of Fibernetics, provides high quality telecom products and services in the most cost effective way possible. Worldline’s Unlimited High Speed DSL and Cable Internet, Home Phone, Long Distance packages and Bundle plans are specifically designed for hard working Canadians. As one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies in the country, Worldline is all about providing unlimited flat rate services with no mandatory contracts. Website: worldline.ca Twitter: @worldlinecanada

About Fibernetics:
Headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, Fibernetics is dedicated to changing the way people communicate by offering telecommunications functionality and pricing that Canadians have never seen before. Fibernetics operates its own national infrastructure that delivers a full range of voice and data services for residential and business customers. The business division of Fibernetics is NEWT, the residential division of Fibernetics is Worldline. Website: www.fibernetics.ca Twitter: @fibernetics

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Media Inquires:
John Stix – CMO
Worldline
519-489-6700
jstix@corp.fibernetics.ca

 

Yes You Can!

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Do you know the No.1 reason why Canadians are sticking with telecom companies like Rogers and Bell, despite knowing they are getting gouged for their Internet and home phone?

Because they don’t think they can switch.

Honest. That’s No.1. The Big Three’s near monopoly is so complete that Canadians coast-to-coast believe they have no where else to turn when it comes to their voice and data. The think they just have to take it- and that’s why if you ask a typical Canadian “which company do you hate the most?”, they’ll most likely answer Bell, Rogers or Telus.

That’s why we’re introducing the Yes You Can! campaign to let as many fine folks as possible know that they do have another place to go, and one that can save them hundreds of dollars a year.

Here’s a quick case study. A Worldline customer in Cambridge, (which is also where our head office is located), was with Rogers for years and years. His monthly bill, which included Internet, home phone, cable TV and two mobile phones averaged more than $500/month. $6000 a year to Rogers? Yikes!

$60/month of that was from his home phone. Internet, because he was a big data guy and Rogers had his data capped at 60 GB/month, averaged about $100/month.

He found out about Worldline just this week after seeing one of our ads on a local bus. He called us up switched to our Unlimited Highspeed Internet and Home Phone Cable Bundle for $54.95/month. He now has unlimited data, (at a faster speed than he was getting with Rogers) a fully featured phone and free Canadian long distance. And just by switching to us, he’s saving more than $1200/year.

It’s kind of embarrassing really as this guy lives in Cambridge and hadn’t heard of us, the regions biggest voice and data service provider, but that’s the reality we face.

People have no idea they have options – like Worldline. So look for our new ads and make sure you help spread the word to your friends and family, because we’ve got to get the word out that they can switch. Tell them, “yes you can.”

Lack of Competition Costs Canadians $1-billion/yr

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Dr. EvilGreater competition in the tightly-controlled mobile wireless market could result in savings of about $1 billion a year for consumers and the wider economy, says the Competition Bureau.

The Canadian Press reported last week that the competition watchdog made the claim in a submission to the federal regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, which is reviewing whether to increase regulation in the wholesale sector and has public hearings scheduled for September.

The regulations would effect what the large wireless companies — Rogers, Bell and Telus — can charge small players for the use of towers and roaming fees.

In the submission released Thursday, the Competition Bureau said one study into the issue suggests Canadians could benefit from greater competition and that large established wireless operators are realizing above-normal returns on investments because of their market dominance.

The bureau says the three largest wireless companies, which together have about 90 per cent of Canada’s cellphone market, have the power to maintain prices above competitive levels for a significant period of time.

“The bureau estimates that increased retail competition from an additional nationwide mobile wireless carrier could result in gains of approximately $1 billion per year to the Canadian economy in the form of better product choices, price reductions and other benefits to customers,” it said.

This backs up the landmark study released by the CBC using data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that compared the cost of cell phone use in Canada to that of 19 other countries. They found that in Canada a mid-range cell phone package costs an average of $572.86 US per year, which is almost $175 more than the average.

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The $1 billion figure comes from a previously-commissioned report from the Brattle Group, which estimated a fourth national carrier would expand mobile wireless usage in Canada and drive down incumbents’ average retail prices by about two per cent.

Rogers’ senior vice-president of regulatory affairs, Ken Engelhart, dismissed the submission as “misguided” and “speculative,” since the report deals with potential savings from added competition.

Is it misguided to pursue a policy that would save Canadians hundreds of dollars a year? If you are one of the Big Three, the answer is an obvious yes. But for the rest of us? Not so much.

wl_save_internetAll Canadians want is a fair shake, and the solution is simple as it has been done before with telecoms, resulting in companies like Worldline providing Unlimited High Speed Internet at hundreds of dollars a year less than the Big Three are capable of charging.

The Competition Bureau is recommending that the CRTC establish additional regulatory measures “if and when they are needed to ensure that new entrants have access to the wholesale services they need to compete effectively.”

Sounds like a plan.

Press Release: Worldline Introduces Super-fast 60Mbps Cable Internet

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Worldline’s Cable Internet Has been Super-speeded
Our Customers get what they want: Blazing Fast 30 & 60 Mbps Internet

CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO–(04/15/14)- Worldline, providing Canada’s best value in High Speed Unlimited Internet, is thrilled to introduce their latest service upgrade, 30 and 60 Mbps Cable Internet starting from only $54.95/month. This aggressive price point provides Worldline customers with a killer combo: The highest speeds at the fairest price.

worldline_60Mbps“We’re all about being a Superhero service provider, and in an era where the Big Three are jacking up their rates and slapping data caps on their broadband Internet customers, Worldline is listening to Canadians and doing the exact opposite. We’re bumping up our speeds and keeping our margins exactly where they’ve always been, providing the best value for data in the country,” said John Stix – Worldline CMO.

“Worldline does not have mandatory contracts, but we’re offering our customers an option for a two year term so they can save even more. Then throw in the option for adding home phone service at no additional cost, and it’s never been a better time to become a Worldline customer,” Stix concluded.               

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About Worldline:

Worldline, the residential division of Fibernetics, provides high quality telecom products and services in the most cost effective way possible. Worldline’s Unlimited High Speed DSL and Cable Internet, Home Phone, Long Distance packages and Bundle plans are specifically designed for hard working Canadians. As one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies in the country, Worldline is all about providing unlimited flat rate services with no mandatory contracts. Website: www.worldline.ca Twitter: @worldlinecanada

About Fibernetics:
Headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, Fibernetics is dedicated to changing the way people communicate by offering telecommunications functionality and pricing that Canadians have never seen before. Fibernetics operates its own national infrastructure that delivers a full range of voice and data services for residential and business customers. The business division of Fibernetics is NEWT, the residential division of Fibernetics is Worldline. Website: www.fibernetics.ca Twitter: @fibernetics

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Media Inquires:
John Stix – CMO
Worldline
519-489-6700
jstix@corp.fibernetics.ca

Xbox One or PlayStation 4? There’s something you should know…

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xbox-one-vs-ps4-578-80The top two Christmas “must haves” both dropped late in November when Microsoft’s Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 launched virtually simultaneously.

It’s a battle royal for the eyes and thumbs of the latest gaming generation, yet both are going to create a serious issue for the players, or more likely the player’s parents, if they aren’t prepared.

Both are serious gaming machines. Both utilize the latest in graphic technology, but more importantly, both are complete and unadulterated Internet pigs.

They suck up bandwidth like crazy!

Once upon a time choosing gaming consoles used to be a simple, straight forward proposition. Open the box, plug it in and start playing. But with both the Xbox One and the PS4, the manufacturers are playing up their cloud services and Internet dependent features, like content sharing and, in Xbox’s case, the ability to play games as they download – and those games? They are HUGE.

For the families who have service providers that cap their data, that could mean that, even within the first few hours of use, their kid could blow through the limit and then they are getting hit anywhere from $0.50 to $4 per gigabyte over the cap.

Then there are the speeds limits. Once upon a time Internet users didn’t have to worry too much about upload speeds. If they weren’t super users, like P2P devotees, or telecommuters who use FTP to transfer massive data files, the Internet was always “fast enough”.

wl_save_internetNot any longer. NETFLIX is already hugely popular in Canada, and speed is essential for even tolerable viewing. Now add in the Xbox One and Playstation 4 in to the mix, who are introducing an interactive, social gaming community that includes the ability to record and upload clips from gaming sessions. This kind of connectivity demands fast connections.

Combined, these new gaming consoles demand that their users have unlimited high speed Internet. Otherwise they will be a) unbelievably expensive to operate and b) the gaming experience will be terrible.

These two “next gen” consoles are going to battle it out for dominance in the gaming industry, but regardless of which one wins, for the folks who are paying to play, these high-tech Internet suckers puts a whole new take on “buyer beware.”