We've had Roger's cable in our building for decades. Of course the 'cost of cable' keeps creeping up. But anytime the condo board threatened to 'go elsewhere', Rogers would in turn threaten to come into the building and 'pull out their cable'. So nothing much ever got done, aside from costs going up. 

A month ago, however, Bell showed up and started putting in its fiber-optic cable. Suddenly we might have 'competition'. But funny thing about 'competition' in the cable/telecom world. There might be more bells and whistles added, but somehow the prices keep going up. 

And if you don't care about the bells and whistles, it's not a very good deal.