If you live in Kingston, Belleville, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Burlington, or any other mid-sized Ontario city where Cogeco is the primary cable provider, you’ve probably noticed the same pattern: people talk a lot about Oxio, and even more about alternatives to Oxio. It’s one of the most frequent questions we receive at NetJOI.Whether it’s conversations […]

📉 Shrinking Choices. Growing Bills. It’s not your imagination, your Internet bill has gone up. Your options have gone down. And that little voice in the back of your mind? It’s right. Something is off. Over the past decade, Canada’s biggest telecom companies have been quietly snapping up the smaller, scrappier competitors who once kept […]

Canadians pay some of the highest Internet prices in the world, and while the reasons are complex, they aren’t mysterious. From wholesale access fees to market consolidation and clever pricing tactics, the system has been structured to reward scale rather than competition. Here’s a data-driven look at what’s really driving those high monthly bills, and […]