Bell and Rogers reduce the prices of the gigabit-speed Internet in Toronto

Two of the largest Internet service providers in Canada have cut their prices by about 45% in the Toronto area for their most advanced offerings, but industry watchers say that these skirmishes are usually very local and short-lived.

Gigabit internet per second with unlimited data for $ 79.95 in parts of Toronto, down $ 149.95, until the end of July.

Rogers, for its part, currently has a limited promotional offer on its gigabit by a second service that drops the monthly fee to $ 79.99 for 12 months, starting at $ 152.99

Emily Taylor, market badyst at IDC Canada, says that these short-term price wars are part of a long time. battle for market share among the country's leading Internet service providers, including Bell, Rogers, Videotron, Telus and Shaw.

Taylor claims that the Canadian adoption of the high-speed home Internet has been relatively slow, in part because in some places, consumers are definitely choosing services faster than there is a few years.

She says that special promotions are a way for carriers to show what the fastest networks can do with the hope that consumers will consider them as an essential service in the future.