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Most of us do. Rogers and Bell (the only companies we can get internet infrastructure from) don’t often sell internet on its own. You usually have to get a cable or home phone package with it.
If you’re lucky and some third party company is leasing some bandwidth from the existing fibre or cable infrastructure, you can pay a bit cheaper and just have an internet plan on its own (like with Start or Teksavvy or the others).
Or if you're in Toronto you get access to amazing ISPs like Benfield and fibrestream. $50 for 1Gb/s symmetric. Glorious
That's not true, I've been with Bell for 10+ years and they've always had an internet only option. In fact, I know they still do. So does East Link.
I guess it depends where you live. I’m in Atlantic Canada and there aren’t any Bell or Rogers plans that have internet as standalone. Always in a bundle.