Datalink wrote:.....and multiply that theory by hundreds, or thousands. It wouldn't make sense to buy out an area if there wasn't a fairly reasonable plan to switch the modem over to Rogers firmware and ensure they were set for the correct plan. Forcing every new internet customer in the buy out area to trek to the nearest rogers store, which is in the next town doesn't make sense at all.
Unless something went wrong with the plan...
Replacing a few hundred/thousands of modems isn't the craziest thing in the world, though, especially if their deal with Shaw lets them ship off the Shaw-firmwared modems back to Shaw. I'm sure they have a surplus of Rogers-firmwared 3825s that have been returned by people moving to the new 60+ megabit plans sitting in a warehouse somewhere...