The Internet Centre Reviews and Plans

The Internet Centre was one of the first internet providers formulated in Edmonton. They were founded back in 1994 and started offering internet services in 2003. They provide DSL connectivity in rural regions and also offer a variety of other services such as web hosting, consultations, and colocation as well. They also offer VoIP services for businesses and residential users, SIP trunking and many other things.

The Internet Centre head office can be found at 4130 – 95th Street NW, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6E 6H5. We will now indulge ourselves with a review of one of Internet Centre’s prominent residential internet plans to gain a better understanding of their services.

The Internet Centre offers a variety of residential internet plans, however, our focus will be on their basic residential plan. This plan comes with download speeds of up to 6 MBPS and upload speeds of up to 1 MBPS. This plan comes with a bandwidth cap of only 100 GBs per month and is priced at a total of $40.00 per month. Now it is important to note that this is a plan that is tailored to users in rural areas. Internet accessibility is inherently more expensive in such areas. However, if compared to another prominent internet service provider called Distributel which offers a residential internet plan which comes with download speeds of up 6 MBPS and upload speeds of up to 1 MBPS at an unlimited bandwidth cap at a price tag of $40 we can see the Internet Centre falls short by a very large margin. In rural services we, usually see a difference of $5.00 to $10.00 but the difference here is the usage cap!

The Internet Centre also implements overage charges on their plans which are priced at $0.50 per GB. This is quite high considering the average price we see for overage per GB is at $0.25 cents nowadays. The setup fees implemented are at $120.00 per which isn’t too bad considering other rural providers charge as much as $200.00. We also were pleased to notice that there are no long term contracts when opting into the services of the Internet Centre.

The Internet Centre is on the right track with some of the aspects of their internet plan, however, the important aspects such as pricing and services rendered require more work. The highest bandwidth cap the Internet Centre allows is only 500 gigabytes which for some users is what they use in less than half a month. Flexibility and economic choices should be the focus of the Internet Centre in going forward.

Features

Web Email Access:
Online Chat Support:
Feature 24x7 Support:
Unlimited Bandwidth:
Own Modem:
Rent Modem:
Combo Wireless Modem:
Fixed IP Available
DHCP IP
Extra Protection Plan
DSL
Cable
Email Accounts