Seaside Wireless Reviews and Plans

Seaside Wireless Broadband is a community-based endeavor which helps the people of Cape Breton acquire internet access at an affordable cost. However whether or not the cost is truly affordable will be discussed later. Seaside wireless is the sister company to another telecommunications provider known as Seaside Communications which offers wired internet across numerous counties in Nova Scotia. However, our focus will remain on Seaside Wireless which provides wireless internet connections, across numerous counties in Nova Scotia. The headquarters of Season Wireless can be found at 1318 Grand Lake Road (Next to Cape Breton University) Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia P.O. Box number 4558 Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia, B1E 1L2. Let us now review one of the Seaside Wireless flagship residential internet plans!

The first thing we noticed about all of Seaside Wireless’s internet plans is the fact that they are all offered on a contractual basis. They offer three plans in three different frames of a contractual agreement. The first plan has the following specifications: download speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps.

This plan is called the Express. If you decide to go with the one year contract you’ll have to pay a $99.00 installation fee and a monthly fee of $58.95 per month.

For the PLUS plan with a download speed of up to 5 Mbps, you have the same install fee and a monthly cost of $66.95

The next available plan from Seaside Wireless is the Ultimate with download speeds of up to 10 Mbps at a monthly cost of $76.45.

The final Home internet plan available from Seaside Wireless is the Extreme with Speeds Up to 15 Mbps with a monthly cost of $81.95; through this new service is not yet available in all areas.

If you opt for the no-contract, minimum 6-months of service you’ll have to pay a setup fee of $99  and the same charges on a monthly basis. If you, however, opt for the contract, the setup fees are waived, but the monthly charge remains the same.

It was vaguely mentioned that this plan is based on an unlimited bandwidth cap but we can’t be too sure about that considering the lack of information. The rates at which Seaside Wireless is providing their services aren’t too bad when compared to other wireless providers such as Last Mile Wireless and MDS Wireless which offer the same plan at the same rates of $49.95 per month. The troubling part is the fact a contractual agreement is required under any circumstance when opting into Seaside Wireless services.

The lack of information on Seaside Wireless’s website is another suspicious factor about the services. A very vague mention is made of them offering unlimited bandwidth, and apart from that, there wasn’t much information provided at all. A page of benefits was provided, but those benefits pertain to having general internet access and not specifically about the services provided by Seaside Wireless.

Seaside Wireless can do away with their requirements for a contractual agreement and that would make their plans seem a hundred times better. As it currently is, however, they require a contractual agreement on every wireless plan they offer and that doesn’t usually sit too well with customers looking for a potential wireless service provider. Furthermore Seaside Wireless definitely needs to provide more information about their plans!

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