When I moved to New Brunswick in 2001 I chose Aliant's high-speed service.

It turned out to be an unusual and backward form of ADSL offering speeds less than half that or normal ADSL. The equipment didn't work properly and I couldn't get service.

This told me that Aliant was a small-market operator run by parochial gnomes that would never offer up-to-date service. The blocking of Skype is a perfect example of how such companies think.

I switched within a couple of months to Rogers and have had no problems with internet access since then (aside from a DNS hiccup a couple years ago that was cleared up after a complaint).