What people in my part of Brampton actually wanted from this was not sports or films first. It was the channels from home, in the language spoken at the dinner table.
That reorders everything. When the priority is the international lineup, the questions that matter for a cable-replacement service — local sports rights, regional feeds — drop down the list, and a different question rises: does it carry these specific channels, from this specific country, reliably.
And reliably is the hard word. Plenty of services list the international channels. Fewer keep them up when the source changes, which for channels coming a long way happens more often. A name in the list is a promise, not a guarantee, and the only way to know is to watch the ones you care about during a trial, at the time you would actually watch them.
The second thing particular to a place like this is that the household is often multilingual and multi-generational. One television, three sets of expectations. So the guide and the app being usable by everyone, including the grandparents, matters more than any single feature.
I would tell a neighbour to test narrowly: your channels, your language, your evening. If those hold, the rest almost always does.
What the service carries for the area, and how local households use it, is set out here.
Here the test is simple: the channels from home, up and steady, at dinner time.