TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is a Canadian residential and business telecommunications company based in Chatham, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, with branches in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

 and Sudbury

Sudbury

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. In most of Canada it is a wholesale operator and CLEC

Competitive local exchange carrier

A competitive local exchange carrier , in the United States, is a telecommunications provider company competing with other, already established carriers ....

, providing a last mile

Last mile

The "last mile" or "last kilometer" is the final leg of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer. The phrase is therefore often used by the telecommunications and cable television industries. The actual distance of this leg may be considerably more than a mile,...

 service that utilizes existing infrastructure from Bell Canada

Bell Canada

Bell Canada is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern territories,...

 and Rogers Communications

Rogers Communications

Rogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, home phone and internet with additional telecommunications and mass media assets...

.

History

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. was founded in January 1998. Consistently ranked in the top 50 (27th in 2008, 33rd in 2009 and 44th in 2010), in 2011 it was ranked 33rd fastest growing company in Canada per Canadian Business Magazine's Profit 100, and by that year had been rated number one ISP in Canada by the users of DSLreports.com for five years.

Services

While TekSavvy operates using infrastructure from Bell and Rogers, it differs in terms of pricing and features. It offers unlimited bandwidth plans for consumers, a practice unmatched by its primary competitors. TekSavvy also operates broadband cable service using its own infrastructure, but only for residents of the Chatham

Chatham–Kent

Chatham–Kent is a unitary authority in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Mostly rural, its centres of population are Blenheim, Chatham, Dresden, Ridgetown, Tilbury and Wallaceburg. Modern Chatham–Kent was created in 1998 by the merger of Kent County and its municipalities.- History :The former city of...

 region of Ontario. It provides home phone services through landline and VOIP, long distance packages and web hosting in eight Canadian provinces.

Usage-based billing

TekSavvy has been very public about its stance against usage-based billing

Bandwidth cap

A bandwidth cap, also known as a bit cap, limits the transfer of a specified amount of data over a period of time. Internet service providers commonly apply a cap when a channel intended to be shared by many users becomes overloaded, or may be overloaded, by a few users...

 (UBB), opposing the CRTC's decision to enforce data caps on wholesale operators that would be similar to incumbents. Former CEO Rocky Gaudrault argued, in 2011, that the larger bandwidth allotments of wholesale operators is one of those operators' more distinguishable factors, stating, "The answer to future growth is not to stifle it by imposing punitive pricing but to encourage it, accommodate it, and make more money on greater volume consumed at lower prices with more efficient infrastructure." TekSavvy devotes most of its news page to addressing its concerns about UBB.