[MatrixDweller]

I'm in Southrn Ontario Canada, so we have Bell Express Vu satellite, Rogers cable and Star Choice as the major providers. For the most part the quality on all is about the same. Where the consumer sees the difference is with support and service up-time.

Unless there's a major snow or thunder storm satellite stays on 24/7. Cable isn't subject to the signal being blocked by clouds but there are the occasional network outages caused by who knows what (cars running over boxes, employee error, etc).

Te one thing I've noticed about Rogers cable is they run American channels through some other Canadian network which replaces all the commercials with Candian content. It normally doesn't matter except for the Super Bowl when you actually want to see some of the commercials.

I have found Bell's and Star Choice's satellite service to be fairly good. The wait times aren't too bad with Star Choice but could be improved a little bit at Bell. Roger's on the other hand needs major improvement. I have waited for an hour on the phone, on hold, for a simple problem. I usually find the bigger the company the longer you wait on hold and the more automated attendant hoops you have to jump through.