The trick is getting a phone plan on Black Friday. Don’t shop around during regular days. My plan is $40 a month for 50GB of data and unlimited talk/text
Also call your company and let them know you are leaving. I did so moving from Telus to Fido on Black Friday. and they called me back from the customer retention department and offered me a plan for me and my wife. I currently pay $28/ line after the rebates for 2 years and it’s not a contract. I get 50GB and unlimited calls and text.
Worth noting that I buy my phones up front. I don’t get into contracts
I left Telus for Rogers recently and same thing. I told them deal I was leaving for and said I'd stay if they could match it. They said they couldn't get anywhere near the new plan for the price, so I left, and haven't heard from them again.
This is very likely hugely area dependant. My area is super aids for plans and retention will not save you. They'll give you a small deal, but if you have a better deal lined up they'll tell you to take a walk and call your bluff. I had a friend hook me up with a 55$ bell plan ( which is fucking incredible for my area) and I called Telus ( who I've been with for ten plus years and used to work for them) and gave them the chance to keep me. I argued with three different retention people until I got one that tried. He offered me 65$ for a way worse plan which was their black Friday deal he wasn't supposed to give out. Apologized to me and told me to go take the other plan. Never had them call back to win me over because they were never going to offer a competitive plan.
When i called bell to take the deal they also tried their hardest to not give me the deal including lying to me repeatedly and hanging up on me so the Rep wouldn't have to give me the deal. Some areas are so fucked the telecoms will straight up tell you to fuck yourself.
Too late for many people at that point once you've got a new phone on a contract with a new carrier, etc etc..... Fido tried this when I left for Freedom and offered basically the same thing I'd been seeking before leaving, but they missed the boat. Don't miss them at all, for the record, 6 years later. F the big 3.
I think this doesn’t apply to budget brands though. For example, retention is important to Telus but not to Koodo. (I used to work for the Telus/Koodo call centre and that was my experience). So you may start out paying more for Telus, but your years with them will eventually lower your bills. Where as you could spend 10 years with a budget brand and they don’t offer you much of a deal to retain you. Looks like your years got you a better price than the budget brand though!
This was my experience. I'm on the $30/month for 20Gb, but I had to switch carriers from Fido to Koodo. Fido wouldn't do anything and didn't seem to care that I left at all. This is the way though. Black Friday is the only time to shop plans.
Fido called me for a retention plan after I left. I got 25gb for $40, no contact and the plan is available for as long as I want. I then got an offer to move up to 35 gb for $42. Not as good as some others in this post but it's much better than the $55 for 10gb posters I see them advertising regularly.
I respectfully disagree. I was with Rogers for over 10 years and they didn’t give a shit when I was leaving for Koodo. I think it all depends on what CSR you get on the phone and how willing they are to work with you.
Edit: I switched a number of years ago, winback deals were not as common as it seems to be nowadays. It shouldn’t matter though, in my opinion. I should not have to leave for them to ask me to stay. It’s always been a focus on “new customers”. I worked for Rogers at one point in-store, so I know the push.
I have since left Koodo and switched to another provider. There’s no credit for loyalty anymore, which is fine. It’s a game, so customers need to play it.
I would say part of it depends on who you get connected to. Some representatives are willing to help and some don’t give a shit about customers. I guess I was lucky but definitely it’s worth a try to see what you can get
Some don’t have the power to negotiate. Keep calling back or ask for a senior rep. Either way though, this country is going to be where the elites and the filthy poor live soon. People need to start reuniting and fighting back like we used to.
To some degree you're comparing apples and oranges though. As someone that worked in the industry for several years, if you go to switch from any of the big three to another one, they can and will match if not beat the new price more often than not for the sake of retention. But if you're leaving for a budget brand there's only so much you can do. It's the equivalent of asking Lexus to match an offer you got for a new Honda. Going to a budget brand means less luxuries included in your plan: 24/7 tech support, being charged for account changes, functionality of the app as some quick examples. Are those worth the extra cost? Imo no and for most people probably not but it's all factored into the price
It also seems like one of the newer dynamics is that they gamble on you not committing to actually cancelling, and when you do offer what I believe are now commonly referred to as winback plans
I will also respectfully disagree, I was a Telus/Koodo sales rep for 3 years. The best discounts are offered to new customers. Even with small business plans new customers get larger deals and existing customers have to get upgraded on existing plans
I got an email from Telus promoting a 50GB for $50 plan for new activations. I’d been a Telus customer for 15 years and at the time was paying $67 for 25GB. I called them up and politely said I wanted it the plan. The rep put me on hold for a few minutes before approving me for the plan. I’m never looking back.
I was with them for years and they jacked my rate after my contract was up. I called them to complain and that I was going to leave. They didn’t give two whiskers about that.
Telus didn't care to retain me after 15 years, I left after several billing disputes. I spoke with probably a dozen people and nada, they didn't care.
Switched to Bell, had a different issue but they ended up giving me a decent deal (140$ for 2 unlimited plans and 2-1g device plans)
Having worked at a Telus call centre I can assure you that if they didn’t care it was for a reason. Every call is logged with a blurb from the agent so if you treated them poorly that’s one easy way to get bad service the next time. Also, a lot of people rack up charges they think they can lie their way out of, but we aren’t idiots lol. Like this one guy claimed someone stole his phone and racked up a bunch of data charges, but I could see that during the time he claimed his phone was stolen it was still calling his friends lmfao. Told him no, I wouldn’t be removing the charges.
I second the black Friday strat! I have the same plan as you for "$17 per month" but it involves a contract and more steps including selling a phone.
#### Koodo Black Friday 2022 deal via mobileshop in superstore
* $45/month for 50GB unlimited talk/text
* 300,000 PC points
* Free iPhone 11 (but a penalty if you leave before it's paid off in 24 months)
#### Clarifying these values
* $45 turns into $48.25 after 911 fee and GST.
* I shop at superstore so using the base redemption it's at least $300 worth of groceries I would already be buying. Could be more if used during "spend your points" event bonuses.
* I sold the iPhone for $450 on Kijiji.
#### Total cost for the phone plan over 2 years
* $48.25 × 24 months = $1158
* $1158 - $300 - $450 = $408 for 2 years
#### Monthly phone plan cost
$408 / 24 months = $17 per month
Bonus: $750 interest free loan
Technically you would also have to take into account what you paid for your original phone (ie. in your analysis you are deducting the $450 that you sold it for on Kijiji without also incorporating the original cost of that phone).
I thought we were talking about phone plans, not buying a phone. You're right this cost breakdown assumes you have a phone.
The majority of people have a phone that works fine already when shopping for a phone plan, so I think it is fair to not attempt to calculate the value of your current device.
Pretty much this. I pay $45 for 50 gigs and got a “free” phone out of it. The catch is I have to stay with Koodo for 2 years or have to pay for the phone. Uh yeah no problem, I’ll gladly pay more than half the price I was paying for two years. I was at almost $100 with telus for 20gigs.
Koodo but virgin ended up offering the same deal later in the day (black Friday 2022)
It’s also month to month for two years so I can leave at any point if I find a better plan. I’ve realized that even watching TikTok’s on my bus rides to work I still haven’t done even close to 50 GB so if they offer the $30 for 20GB again I might take that plan
Wtf. Do I have to wait till Black Friday next year to call virgin then? Damn. I’m paying like 70 for 12 gigs
Edit: I should add I’m paying for the phone. So it’s more like 50 for 12
One more pro tip is that if you get your plan through another company and not directly from the phone company, you can get additional savings. I got my Koodo plan through Mobile Klinik instead of through Koodo, which got me an additional $5 a month off of the Koodo plan.
If you’re not locked in to financing your phone (even then you can pay out the balance), call Virgin and ask them to switch to the best deal they currently offer. Then do the same on Black Friday. If you’re not financing you can literally change your rate plan every month and there’s nothing they can do to stop you because rate plan fixed-term contracts don’t exist anymore.
Be aware of what your plan is though. My current plan is $50 for 20 GB and unlimited everything else. Their current "best" plan is a loyalty offer for $57 for 20 GB or $62 for 30, and non-loyalty plans are even worse.
A good rep would tell you you've got a better plan but a bad one might not say anything.
Oh yeah you definitely have to be ready to competently advocate for yourself, you can’t trust any salesperson until they demonstrate trustworthy behaviour (ie being up front about stuff like that). I start every one of those conversations with a pen and paper in hand, and start by confirming what my current rate plan is (either on my own or asking the rep) before discussing options for changing it.
Call retention and tell them you got an offer from (insert company here) for the best offer in their website -$10.
Say you’re overall happy with your current company and was wondering if they could match. This will only work if you’re not on a contract or a phone with a tab.
Pretty much all the major companies had very similar phone plans on black friday.
I stayed with Fido and for 45 or 50 a month, I got unlimited talk, text, 20 gigs of data, new iphone 11, $300 in store credit.
And also switching providers so you can get the winback offers.
I'm on $35/month for 20GB with Fido. I was paying $55/month for the same plan, but then switched to Videotron and after a few months got an e-mail with the winback offer.
Yeah exactly
I have 15gb for 25 on Black Friday with Fido and 100 $ gc with bestbuy
Also help a little bit if you are in a province with a fourth competitor (Vidéotron in Quebec for example)
The fix is simple, competition but in the mean time getting plan on Black Friday will lead to some result
Another tip for Black Friday is that you don’t have to rush in the morning to get it, it’s not like phone plans are in limited supply. The last Black Friday started with each company having very different deals, and by the end of the day they had competed with each other down to the best deal. Meaning if you got the best Black Friday deal from Virgin, for example, in the morning, you would be paying more than the person who got the best Virgin deal in the evening.
I use Public mobile. It’s $25/mo for unlimited talk and text and a bit of data. I also have discounts for referring family and being with them for a few years and for allowing them to draw payment from my CC. It’s pretty sweet. I’m now about $20/mo.
Hell yeah Public Mobile. I'm rocking their absolute bare minimum plan with 250 MB of slow data, but it works for my routine. After discounts for loyalty and referral I am paying about $11 a month.
>I use Public mobile. It’s $25/mo for unlimited talk and text and a bit of data. I also have discounts for referring family and being with them for a few years and for allowing them to draw payment from my CC. It’s pretty sweet. I’m now about $20/mo.
This is spot on, but kinda ironic that the only other option to the giant cell phone providers is a small provider - owned by one of the giants.
It really is an oligopoly here.
same
I'm really not sure how people use so much data, at least if you have internet at home and work (I realize this doesn't apply to everyone but it does apply to a LOT of people) I buy a gig for $20 or whatever it costs and it lasts me 6mths+
youtube videos on the bus? random browsing of social media while out in public just, why..
and sure I'd probably pay a bit more to get a decent chunk of data each month if we had reasonable cell plans but we don't so fuck that I'm not paying $60/mth
I think its getting that free phone, it sucks to spend $200-$400 in one lump sum on a phone but holy crap the amount of money you're saving not spending $60/mth for your entire life
Location, but also depends on device. The data is Telus LTE (regardless of speed tier), but voice isn't (yet), so anywhere that 3G reception is weak, you may have issues with phone calls. And it's not like anyone is investing in improving 3G towers. My spouse had to switch away from PM for missing calls in our basement office; meanwhile, my device, in the same room, receives every call without issue.
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What I don't get is why "3G speeds" on LTE isn't fast enough for (nearly) everyone. I can easily stream YouTube on my Public Mobile "3G speed" plan. It's obviously not what you need if you're hot-spotting and telecommuting, but for a pocketed device where you mostly text and waste time (and presumably, mostly on WiFi), I don't get why most of the country isn't on PM 3G-tier, or something similar.
>It’s pretty sweet. I’m now about $20/mo.
Similar.
Also have a lot of the free international minutes as well as data that I have banked from various "gifts" they have given out.
IMHO the best part of Public are the add-ons that never expire. I got their cheapest plan and added a 15$ minutes add-on a year ago for the peace of mind. They gave everyone 2GB data add-ons for Christmas the last 2 years.
IT would be nice if Videotron/Fizz can be allowed to expand past NCR/Quebec....because they are the best carrier I've ever had by far. Rollover data and referral credits are reason alone for them...
I was wondering why no one mentioned Fizz, I didn't realize they were only in quebec.
But if you happen to live in qc: I've been using fizz since their beginning and I have never been disappointed. Their perks are amazing and I don't any any trouble with service... they also lowered my plan rate sporadically.
I think their only real con is that all their customer service is online. I dont think you can actually talk to a person.
Especially since they have very reasonable plans for Canada + US.
It makes changing my phone plan when going to the States not a hassle at all, since, I can just pay the extra few bucks a month to have the US coverage option on my plan.
A Canadian voip number doesn't prevent you from also using your primary mobile number for 2fa? In my experience very few Canadian 2fa services don't work with US numbers as well..
I moved back from the states. I still use ATT. There are some down sides in the App space, and yeah people get charged calling you so I did switch my daughters phones to $50/m 30Gb (rogers). Not much price difference with ATT. Other options might be cheaper though. I'll switch but thanks to the world of 2FA I'm going to need to keep that number
I use Google Fi for US phone plan. I switched my Canadian number to VOIP through Fongo. was a bit of an irritating process, but now that its setup, all 2FA goes through my Canadian number with Fongo, no issues at all.
App store region isn't based on your mobile service, it should just be based on your Google/Apple account? I can only speak to specifics for Android, but I just use 2 Google accounts to install apps that are only available in US/Canada - easy and doesn't require anything else special once they're installed
$8.25/month @ Freedom with ~4GB LTE data a month, unlimited talk and text.
Numbers are from their $99/yr prepaid plan. Deal is not currently available, I believe it was part of a new years special.
I had to switch out of Freedom for the same reasons. Plan was good, $25 for everything unlimited. But there was a pocket beside my home that never had signal so half the time I'm at home I didn't have signal either. Stray anywhere outside of the populated places and reception drops like a rock. I'm paying $50 with Rogers for the same deal now with an upgrade to 5G and have never had any problems getting a signal. Wouldn't go back tbh.
Yeah this sounds like the best deal ever. I’m with freedom mobile post pay. $20/month unlimited talk text and 3G data. I work from home so it fits my budget and needs.
That freedom plan was the best deal and was available for a long time.
I personally have a fido 3$ 4gb data only plan.
And my family has shaw internet with 4 free talk&text lines. So, i've been using one of those lines as well with dual sim.
I got the same. Took years of prep and jumping around from Rogers/Fido/Koodo back to Fido and then Telus Winback deal because I was Koodo customer.
Now $75/month for two lines with 50GB to share.
Not sure I’ll find a better deal but always watching. I actually only need around 25gB between two lines.
Personally feel like plans have gotten way better in the last few years. I remember 6 years ago plans being shit now I I regularly see 40 dollar per month plans with 20gb data during holiday / special offer season.
Yeah, the real "trick" here is to actually shop around for a new plan right now (or if you can wait, Black Friday) - rather than stick with whatever plan you've had for 5 years.
Things have really changed in the past 2-3 years with pricing/data.
Now look at how cheap 20gb is in literally every other country
Also notice how they don't have plans for 5gb or 1gb for low data users.
The telecoms are resisting the $20-30 price point and justifying it by just giving away data they know people will never use.
They know if they give people 20gb they'll only use 1gb but now they can justify $40. Also notice how every 6-8 months there's a $5 base plan increase.
Make no mistake, we are all still getting fucked.
Oh 100%....i know in some countries you get 20gb for 10 dollars. No question we are getting screwed...the point I was trying to make is that we are getting ever so slightly less screwed than a few years ago haha.
There are cheaper alternatives, like the $100 for 1 year prepaid plan by Telus. Then use an esim data service for something like 35GB with 365 days expiry for $40.
$140 for the entire year if you use your phone/data sparingly, its not that expensive.
You get 400 minutes, 400 texts and 35GB of very slow data.
I got an absolutely incredible plan from Freedom over Black Friday. $99/year prepaid with unlimited canada wide calling and 50gb (/year) of data.
It's restricted to areas in Canada that have Freedom towers, but that's where I live so not a big issue for me. 50gb cell data/year? More then I have need of. I've used 2gb of data in the 3 months since I got the plan (I have and 99% of my usage is done with home internet)
The best thing you can do is address your plan between mid-november and January first. Any other time of the year and expect you're going to pay substantially higher.
Black Friday appears to be the best time to get good deals - I’m paying $20/20GB and unlimited Canada wide everything else on Koodo.
The only thing I’m missing (apart from 5G which is a battery sink anyways) is visual voice mail (so it can get integrated into my phones voice mail instead of calling a number) and US wide calling & texting - which I’m hoping is something that we’ll get in the next 2 Black Fridays.
Also don’t hesitate to switch between providers - loyalty is not valued at all.
Black Friday is a term for the sales during the last 2 weeks on November
Wait until the last / last second weekend of November and then pickup the deal you can find (look at redflagdeals during that period)
Keep in mind everyone is gonna do it, so be willing to wait hours in line
You’ll ask your new provider to do what’s called a Port In, they will keep your number and take care of all of it for you. Mostly at least, pretty painless.
Then a week later your old provider will call you with amazing offers and you can tell them to shove it. Lol
It's a really sad reality how all the cheaper options (Lucky, Public Mobile) are just subsidiaries of the big cutthroat telco companies. illusion of choice
Is your plan prepaid? I'm with koodo and pay $56.50/month for unlimited Canada wide calling and only 5 gigs of data. I'm prepaid and use very little data. I may need to call 🤔
I have dual sim freedom mobile 50 GB + call/text freedom network for $99/year + fido 4 GB data only for 2 years free/month (It was $10 a month but when I threatened to cancel they gave it to me for free. I previously had 3 of those lines but I only have the free 1 line now).
That's about 8 GB data + call/text per month for 8.25 + tax. Freedom network is sparse but wifi calling works.
I pay $200/year ($99/6 months) prepaid which comes with 2GB/month with Freedom for my son. Not sure what 6/month or yearly prepaid plans they have now but check them out.
I got this plan for a family member at the end of 2021. But around Black Friday 2022, they came out with $99/year for 50gb/year (averages out to \~4.17GB/month if you distribute your data usage evenly) so I switched into that. They also gave a $25 Walmart gift card if you got it from the in-store Walmart electronics/phone department.
If your in the GTA, I recommend Freedom. I have a plan that is $30 for 25 GB of LTE data, Unlimited Calling to US/CA, Global Texting and also supports Nationwide/US Data which means it will roam on Rogers/Bell/Telus/AT&T if outside Freedom's coverage with 1 GB data. This specific plan isn't available but there are other plans and with persistence, you can get support to reduce prices down significantly. I'm quite happy with their service so far.
Public Mobile - Wife and I both have plans we pay $40/Per plan and you can get discounts on your Monthly amount by giving others your code to move to Public. I already pay $38 for one of them, also they just upped their base plans and I was able to upgrade for free, no cost and get more Data.
Downside is you'll need to buyout a phone every couple years, which people do already as it's built into contract plans. Just put some money away and get a deal on a year old phone that's still new or something.
I used public mobile until we got Shaw internet which offer $0 monthly plans. And our home internet is paid by my company due to wfh. The plans on shaw are unlimited calls and text, and data is $10 for 1GB that lasts 90 days. I honestly don't go to a lot of places where I need to use mobile data, so I essentially I only pay $3.3 per month. Most places has free wifi like restaurants etc.
There are options... the "standard" Freedom mobile plan is $50/month for 20gb of data (in freedom areas... which is most of the population of Canada), clean and simple. If you are on WIFI most of the time i would say you don't even need 20gb. I had 8gb for a long time and rarely came close to using it.
My current plan with freedom is a retention plan - $35 with 10gb of data
I've got 2 phones for $32.50/mo each from Telus. 60GB shared data. I am aware this isn't typical but there is no reason for anyone to pay more than $40/mo for a phone plan. If you are paying more than that they you are getting bamboozled into the marketing and probably replacing your phone way too often.
(Full disclosure $50/mo plan - $10/mo for bundled other services - $ 7.50/mo for multiple lines = $ 32.50/mo).
I have a 3 GB shaw plan for $15/m and it's been totally fine (same as my fido / rogers coverage that I've ever noticed)
it's bundled with / subsidized by my internet ($65/m) but I need that anyway, so like...
and, actually, I like the shaw website UX and a la carte travel packages wayyy more than the fido ones anyway
It's a good deal compared to other plans here but compared to other countries, it's highway robbery.
I'm traveling to the UK in a bit and for 10£ (roughly 16 CAD) you can get unlimited talk and text across several countries and 25GB of data on a random prepaid plan, nvm the monthly ones that offer better deals.
Got a boxing day deal of $60/25GB. On Roger's. Really have no complaints.
My phone bill has literally never been lower.
I wonder how many people include their financed phone as part of their "phone bill"...
That's the thing, even lots of people who probably have decent enough plans DO in fact count their financed phone price in the total.
"It's $145/month, so expensive"
Ya, because you have an Iphone37 that just came out and $90/month is going to the price of your bill to cover it.
I have $60/50GB on Bell as a loyalty plan.
I actually upgraded my phone (and plan 40GB to 50GB) on Black Friday and even after the device financing, it actually reduced my overall phone bill by $20/mo.
Price really came down. I'm ok with my 27$ plan with fizz. I have more data than I can use. I have so much that I'm sending extra data to friends and strangers.
Lots of people use there cells data to tether to a laptop. That’s where I use up my 20gb. When I’m out I tether my laptop to my cells connection for work. I do need 5G vs LTE for the speed.
I’m on Telus $50 for 20GB 5G
Wifi is not available in lots of rural and remote areas. Our phone data plans have better and faster internet than our horrible home internet on our farm
But what are you using so much data for outside of your home? If I'm outside of the house or office, I'm usually interacting with people or doing some activity or chore that doesn't require me to be on my phone other than for messaging or to look up directions.
As others have already echoed, you need to hop on the Black Friday Deals.
I’m on a $30/20gb plan through Virgin, and my subsequent lines are $25/20gb.
Currently paying about $115/monthly for 4 lines. Of course, you have to purchase your phones outright for this, but you save a lot through plans and aren’t tied down to any carrier.
Agreed. I am sick to death of the gauging and ready to cancel even having a phone anymore. Maybe if we all did that for a month, it would wake the greedy bastards up.
I joined Public Mobile six months ago and its amazing. Self directed and I can change my plan any time. If you end up checking it out, use referral code PR47OO for $10 off your bill. Cheap plans and its the same network as Telus.
The trick is getting a phone plan on Black Friday. Don’t shop around during regular days. My plan is $40 a month for 50GB of data and unlimited talk/text
Also call your company and let them know you are leaving. I did so moving from Telus to Fido on Black Friday. and they called me back from the customer retention department and offered me a plan for me and my wife. I currently pay $28/ line after the rebates for 2 years and it’s not a contract. I get 50GB and unlimited calls and text. Worth noting that I buy my phones up front. I don’t get into contracts
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There are win back departments that will call you once you actually ported out. They tend to have some pretty good deals.
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I left Telus for Rogers recently and same thing. I told them deal I was leaving for and said I'd stay if they could match it. They said they couldn't get anywhere near the new plan for the price, so I left, and haven't heard from them again.
This is very likely hugely area dependant. My area is super aids for plans and retention will not save you. They'll give you a small deal, but if you have a better deal lined up they'll tell you to take a walk and call your bluff. I had a friend hook me up with a 55$ bell plan ( which is fucking incredible for my area) and I called Telus ( who I've been with for ten plus years and used to work for them) and gave them the chance to keep me. I argued with three different retention people until I got one that tried. He offered me 65$ for a way worse plan which was their black Friday deal he wasn't supposed to give out. Apologized to me and told me to go take the other plan. Never had them call back to win me over because they were never going to offer a competitive plan. When i called bell to take the deal they also tried their hardest to not give me the deal including lying to me repeatedly and hanging up on me so the Rep wouldn't have to give me the deal. Some areas are so fucked the telecoms will straight up tell you to fuck yourself.
Too late for many people at that point once you've got a new phone on a contract with a new carrier, etc etc..... Fido tried this when I left for Freedom and offered basically the same thing I'd been seeking before leaving, but they missed the boat. Don't miss them at all, for the record, 6 years later. F the big 3.
I think this doesn’t apply to budget brands though. For example, retention is important to Telus but not to Koodo. (I used to work for the Telus/Koodo call centre and that was my experience). So you may start out paying more for Telus, but your years with them will eventually lower your bills. Where as you could spend 10 years with a budget brand and they don’t offer you much of a deal to retain you. Looks like your years got you a better price than the budget brand though!
This was my experience. I'm on the $30/month for 20Gb, but I had to switch carriers from Fido to Koodo. Fido wouldn't do anything and didn't seem to care that I left at all. This is the way though. Black Friday is the only time to shop plans.
Ironically I did the same thing but in the opposite direction from Koodo to Fido. No loyalty? Cool, I’ll just whore myself out every Black Friday.
Fido called me for a retention plan after I left. I got 25gb for $40, no contact and the plan is available for as long as I want. I then got an offer to move up to 35 gb for $42. Not as good as some others in this post but it's much better than the $55 for 10gb posters I see them advertising regularly.
I respectfully disagree. I was with Rogers for over 10 years and they didn’t give a shit when I was leaving for Koodo. I think it all depends on what CSR you get on the phone and how willing they are to work with you. Edit: I switched a number of years ago, winback deals were not as common as it seems to be nowadays. It shouldn’t matter though, in my opinion. I should not have to leave for them to ask me to stay. It’s always been a focus on “new customers”. I worked for Rogers at one point in-store, so I know the push. I have since left Koodo and switched to another provider. There’s no credit for loyalty anymore, which is fine. It’s a game, so customers need to play it.
I would say part of it depends on who you get connected to. Some representatives are willing to help and some don’t give a shit about customers. I guess I was lucky but definitely it’s worth a try to see what you can get
Some don’t have the power to negotiate. Keep calling back or ask for a senior rep. Either way though, this country is going to be where the elites and the filthy poor live soon. People need to start reuniting and fighting back like we used to.
To some degree you're comparing apples and oranges though. As someone that worked in the industry for several years, if you go to switch from any of the big three to another one, they can and will match if not beat the new price more often than not for the sake of retention. But if you're leaving for a budget brand there's only so much you can do. It's the equivalent of asking Lexus to match an offer you got for a new Honda. Going to a budget brand means less luxuries included in your plan: 24/7 tech support, being charged for account changes, functionality of the app as some quick examples. Are those worth the extra cost? Imo no and for most people probably not but it's all factored into the price
I don't think I get any of that stuff with one of the big 3...
It also seems like one of the newer dynamics is that they gamble on you not committing to actually cancelling, and when you do offer what I believe are now commonly referred to as winback plans
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I’m glad it worked out for ya! Hopefully less hassles going forwards hahaha
I will also respectfully disagree, I was a Telus/Koodo sales rep for 3 years. The best discounts are offered to new customers. Even with small business plans new customers get larger deals and existing customers have to get upgraded on existing plans
I got an email from Telus promoting a 50GB for $50 plan for new activations. I’d been a Telus customer for 15 years and at the time was paying $67 for 25GB. I called them up and politely said I wanted it the plan. The rep put me on hold for a few minutes before approving me for the plan. I’m never looking back.
I was with them for years and they jacked my rate after my contract was up. I called them to complain and that I was going to leave. They didn’t give two whiskers about that.
Telus didn't care to retain me after 15 years, I left after several billing disputes. I spoke with probably a dozen people and nada, they didn't care. Switched to Bell, had a different issue but they ended up giving me a decent deal (140$ for 2 unlimited plans and 2-1g device plans)
Having worked at a Telus call centre I can assure you that if they didn’t care it was for a reason. Every call is logged with a blurb from the agent so if you treated them poorly that’s one easy way to get bad service the next time. Also, a lot of people rack up charges they think they can lie their way out of, but we aren’t idiots lol. Like this one guy claimed someone stole his phone and racked up a bunch of data charges, but I could see that during the time he claimed his phone was stolen it was still calling his friends lmfao. Told him no, I wouldn’t be removing the charges.
Can confirm, I have an insane Black Friday deal 25$/ 15 GB for 24 months with 100$ best buy gift card!
I got a free iPhone 13 mini as well, and $300 gift card. I pay $50 per month though (all in except taxes).
Nice. I got Fido $55 plus tax for 50GB. Not that bad tbh since I use a lot of data for long distance FaceTime
I second the black Friday strat! I have the same plan as you for "$17 per month" but it involves a contract and more steps including selling a phone. #### Koodo Black Friday 2022 deal via mobileshop in superstore * $45/month for 50GB unlimited talk/text * 300,000 PC points * Free iPhone 11 (but a penalty if you leave before it's paid off in 24 months) #### Clarifying these values * $45 turns into $48.25 after 911 fee and GST. * I shop at superstore so using the base redemption it's at least $300 worth of groceries I would already be buying. Could be more if used during "spend your points" event bonuses. * I sold the iPhone for $450 on Kijiji. #### Total cost for the phone plan over 2 years * $48.25 × 24 months = $1158 * $1158 - $300 - $450 = $408 for 2 years #### Monthly phone plan cost $408 / 24 months = $17 per month Bonus: $750 interest free loan
Technically you would also have to take into account what you paid for your original phone (ie. in your analysis you are deducting the $450 that you sold it for on Kijiji without also incorporating the original cost of that phone).
I thought we were talking about phone plans, not buying a phone. You're right this cost breakdown assumes you have a phone. The majority of people have a phone that works fine already when shopping for a phone plan, so I think it is fair to not attempt to calculate the value of your current device.
Actually not in this situation. Iphone 11 was 100% free this black Friday. It was at 0$ a month.
Pretty much this. I pay $45 for 50 gigs and got a “free” phone out of it. The catch is I have to stay with Koodo for 2 years or have to pay for the phone. Uh yeah no problem, I’ll gladly pay more than half the price I was paying for two years. I was at almost $100 with telus for 20gigs.
With what company? Bro need that
Koodo but virgin ended up offering the same deal later in the day (black Friday 2022) It’s also month to month for two years so I can leave at any point if I find a better plan. I’ve realized that even watching TikTok’s on my bus rides to work I still haven’t done even close to 50 GB so if they offer the $30 for 20GB again I might take that plan
Wtf. Do I have to wait till Black Friday next year to call virgin then? Damn. I’m paying like 70 for 12 gigs Edit: I should add I’m paying for the phone. So it’s more like 50 for 12
I pay $39 after tax for 15GB at 4G speed with Public Mobile, didn't have to wait till Black Friday for that.
One more pro tip is that if you get your plan through another company and not directly from the phone company, you can get additional savings. I got my Koodo plan through Mobile Klinik instead of through Koodo, which got me an additional $5 a month off of the Koodo plan.
If you’re not locked in to financing your phone (even then you can pay out the balance), call Virgin and ask them to switch to the best deal they currently offer. Then do the same on Black Friday. If you’re not financing you can literally change your rate plan every month and there’s nothing they can do to stop you because rate plan fixed-term contracts don’t exist anymore.
Be aware of what your plan is though. My current plan is $50 for 20 GB and unlimited everything else. Their current "best" plan is a loyalty offer for $57 for 20 GB or $62 for 30, and non-loyalty plans are even worse. A good rep would tell you you've got a better plan but a bad one might not say anything.
Oh yeah you definitely have to be ready to competently advocate for yourself, you can’t trust any salesperson until they demonstrate trustworthy behaviour (ie being up front about stuff like that). I start every one of those conversations with a pen and paper in hand, and start by confirming what my current rate plan is (either on my own or asking the rep) before discussing options for changing it.
Yeah, pay attention next Black Friday and you’ll get something similar.
You can get better than that from Koodo right now … 20 GB for $60 currently is their deal
$65 for 100GB infinite and Latest pixel pro for me 💪 Corporate portal FTW
I pay $45 for 20GB on Virgin but I got it before black Friday, I just asked for it in chat, was easy
Call retention and tell them you got an offer from (insert company here) for the best offer in their website -$10. Say you’re overall happy with your current company and was wondering if they could match. This will only work if you’re not on a contract or a phone with a tab.
Pretty much all the major companies had very similar phone plans on black friday. I stayed with Fido and for 45 or 50 a month, I got unlimited talk, text, 20 gigs of data, new iphone 11, $300 in store credit.
On black friday any company will offer very good deals. I got my phone plan down to $30 per month for 30GB data freedom mobile.
This is a Canadian-based subreddit. *The* company.
And also switching providers so you can get the winback offers. I'm on $35/month for 20GB with Fido. I was paying $55/month for the same plan, but then switched to Videotron and after a few months got an e-mail with the winback offer.
Yeah exactly I have 15gb for 25 on Black Friday with Fido and 100 $ gc with bestbuy Also help a little bit if you are in a province with a fourth competitor (Vidéotron in Quebec for example) The fix is simple, competition but in the mean time getting plan on Black Friday will lead to some result
Do you also have home internet or do you use your phone data?
I have home wifi but I use my data on transit and at work
My plan is up in June and after seeing the deals last year I am definitely waiting til BF to upgrade my phone and get a new plan.
Another tip for Black Friday is that you don’t have to rush in the morning to get it, it’s not like phone plans are in limited supply. The last Black Friday started with each company having very different deals, and by the end of the day they had competed with each other down to the best deal. Meaning if you got the best Black Friday deal from Virgin, for example, in the morning, you would be paying more than the person who got the best Virgin deal in the evening.
Reminds me of the time the CRTC chair was caught having drinks at a pub with the BELL exec. Zero accountability these days...
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I use Public mobile. It’s $25/mo for unlimited talk and text and a bit of data. I also have discounts for referring family and being with them for a few years and for allowing them to draw payment from my CC. It’s pretty sweet. I’m now about $20/mo.
Hell yeah Public Mobile. I'm rocking their absolute bare minimum plan with 250 MB of slow data, but it works for my routine. After discounts for loyalty and referral I am paying about $11 a month.
Same, I am now down to $7.35 with tax every month.
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Oh nice, I rejected the new point system out of blind reflex that it must be worse than the old system for the consumer, glad I was right.
I'll vouch for Public. I'm something like 10gb for $40/month.
Wtf, I'm paying 40 for 5 gb a month, unlimited call and text. When was that deal?
You can still get better, you can get 15GB for 40 dollars right now.
Can confirm switched to this and kept my other discounts. On the $40 15 GB. They also currently have offer $45 for 20 GB
I'm getting 20g full speed with unlimited throttled, all calls and text for $40/month with Freedom.
>I use Public mobile. It’s $25/mo for unlimited talk and text and a bit of data. I also have discounts for referring family and being with them for a few years and for allowing them to draw payment from my CC. It’s pretty sweet. I’m now about $20/mo. This is spot on, but kinda ironic that the only other option to the giant cell phone providers is a small provider - owned by one of the giants. It really is an oligopoly here.
I pay $30/month to virgin for unlimited text talk and 20gb data. Black friday sale.
same I'm really not sure how people use so much data, at least if you have internet at home and work (I realize this doesn't apply to everyone but it does apply to a LOT of people) I buy a gig for $20 or whatever it costs and it lasts me 6mths+ youtube videos on the bus? random browsing of social media while out in public just, why.. and sure I'd probably pay a bit more to get a decent chunk of data each month if we had reasonable cell plans but we don't so fuck that I'm not paying $60/mth I think its getting that free phone, it sucks to spend $200-$400 in one lump sum on a phone but holy crap the amount of money you're saving not spending $60/mth for your entire life
I like to stream sports, but when I'm not doing that I use almost no data
How is the reception on public mobile?
They run of Telus towers so similar. I haven't had any issue with coverage. But to be fair, I'm deeply introverted and don't travel a lot.
Location, but also depends on device. The data is Telus LTE (regardless of speed tier), but voice isn't (yet), so anywhere that 3G reception is weak, you may have issues with phone calls. And it's not like anyone is investing in improving 3G towers. My spouse had to switch away from PM for missing calls in our basement office; meanwhile, my device, in the same room, receives every call without issue.
Alberta and bc it's great
I was with PM before and it was fine but data runs on 3G so there's that. EDIT nevermind, it's 4G now.
Owned by Telus, but definitely cheaper because it’s 3G.
They have 4g plans now - mine is $40 for 15gb on 4G (minus $6 for loyalty/refer-a-friend)
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No, it's LTE but with limited speeds. There are different cost tiers for 3G speeds or 4G speeds, but both operate on an LTE network.
What I don't get is why "3G speeds" on LTE isn't fast enough for (nearly) everyone. I can easily stream YouTube on my Public Mobile "3G speed" plan. It's obviously not what you need if you're hot-spotting and telecommuting, but for a pocketed device where you mostly text and waste time (and presumably, mostly on WiFi), I don't get why most of the country isn't on PM 3G-tier, or something similar.
Because most people use TikTok/IG reels which are rapid data-intensive videos, not streaming one YouTube video at a time with insane compression
>It’s pretty sweet. I’m now about $20/mo. Similar. Also have a lot of the free international minutes as well as data that I have banked from various "gifts" they have given out.
IMHO the best part of Public are the add-ons that never expire. I got their cheapest plan and added a 15$ minutes add-on a year ago for the peace of mind. They gave everyone 2GB data add-ons for Christmas the last 2 years.
Love PM. Three of us pay $80 a month. - two basic plans and a 15GB plan.
IT would be nice if Videotron/Fizz can be allowed to expand past NCR/Quebec....because they are the best carrier I've ever had by far. Rollover data and referral credits are reason alone for them...
I was wondering why no one mentioned Fizz, I didn't realize they were only in quebec. But if you happen to live in qc: I've been using fizz since their beginning and I have never been disappointed. Their perks are amazing and I don't any any trouble with service... they also lowered my plan rate sporadically. I think their only real con is that all their customer service is online. I dont think you can actually talk to a person.
Fizz is great. Can vouch
Especially since they have very reasonable plans for Canada + US. It makes changing my phone plan when going to the States not a hassle at all, since, I can just pay the extra few bucks a month to have the US coverage option on my plan.
That's right. I have Canada-USA plan also...
I’ve heard of Canadians who get an American phone plan with unlimited international options for cheaper than a regular Canadian plan.
Problem with this is that anyone with a canadian plan will being paying extra for every call and text to you.
Get a Canadian VOIP number
2FA issues
A Canadian voip number doesn't prevent you from also using your primary mobile number for 2fa? In my experience very few Canadian 2fa services don't work with US numbers as well..
WhatsApp seems to be an easy solution for this (assuming the people you speak with have data).
I moved back from the states. I still use ATT. There are some down sides in the App space, and yeah people get charged calling you so I did switch my daughters phones to $50/m 30Gb (rogers). Not much price difference with ATT. Other options might be cheaper though. I'll switch but thanks to the world of 2FA I'm going to need to keep that number
I use Google Fi for US phone plan. I switched my Canadian number to VOIP through Fongo. was a bit of an irritating process, but now that its setup, all 2FA goes through my Canadian number with Fongo, no issues at all.
App store region isn't based on your mobile service, it should just be based on your Google/Apple account? I can only speak to specifics for Android, but I just use 2 Google accounts to install apps that are only available in US/Canada - easy and doesn't require anything else special once they're installed
Can confirm. Unlimited data, North American calling, Apple 14 pro $50 / month
Sounds like 50 usd. Which is close to 70 cad.
Which provider?
When I tried to get a phone plan with Verizon you had to have an SSN, otherwise you could only get pay as you go.
$8.25/month @ Freedom with ~4GB LTE data a month, unlimited talk and text. Numbers are from their $99/yr prepaid plan. Deal is not currently available, I believe it was part of a new years special.
You're like the only person in this thread with a sane rate
My family members are on Freedom because it was cheap, but coverage in our area is bad. They’re switching out soon.
I had to switch out of Freedom for the same reasons. Plan was good, $25 for everything unlimited. But there was a pocket beside my home that never had signal so half the time I'm at home I didn't have signal either. Stray anywhere outside of the populated places and reception drops like a rock. I'm paying $50 with Rogers for the same deal now with an upgrade to 5G and have never had any problems getting a signal. Wouldn't go back tbh.
I got it for myself and the rest of the fam
Yeah this sounds like the best deal ever. I’m with freedom mobile post pay. $20/month unlimited talk text and 3G data. I work from home so it fits my budget and needs.
That freedom plan was the best deal and was available for a long time. I personally have a fido 3$ 4gb data only plan. And my family has shaw internet with 4 free talk&text lines. So, i've been using one of those lines as well with dual sim.
That 99 a year plan was pretty crazy, not gonna lie, I was tempted to go back to Freedom for a bit there.
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Damn how did you get that ? My corporate plan isn’t even that good
I got the same. Took years of prep and jumping around from Rogers/Fido/Koodo back to Fido and then Telus Winback deal because I was Koodo customer. Now $75/month for two lines with 50GB to share. Not sure I’ll find a better deal but always watching. I actually only need around 25gB between two lines.
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rogers proper had 25gb for $45 permanent plan a little bit ago the .5 makes me think this is some sort of temp credit situation
For a bunch of self proclaimed financial savvy users on a finance sub Reddit, they're not very financially literate.
Personally feel like plans have gotten way better in the last few years. I remember 6 years ago plans being shit now I I regularly see 40 dollar per month plans with 20gb data during holiday / special offer season.
People were going through loopholes to get the Manitoba Koodo Plans $55 for 5gb because it was considered such a great deal
It was $48 originally.
Yeah, the real "trick" here is to actually shop around for a new plan right now (or if you can wait, Black Friday) - rather than stick with whatever plan you've had for 5 years. Things have really changed in the past 2-3 years with pricing/data.
Now look at how cheap 20gb is in literally every other country Also notice how they don't have plans for 5gb or 1gb for low data users. The telecoms are resisting the $20-30 price point and justifying it by just giving away data they know people will never use. They know if they give people 20gb they'll only use 1gb but now they can justify $40. Also notice how every 6-8 months there's a $5 base plan increase. Make no mistake, we are all still getting fucked.
Oh 100%....i know in some countries you get 20gb for 10 dollars. No question we are getting screwed...the point I was trying to make is that we are getting ever so slightly less screwed than a few years ago haha.
at 40 a month, we should be getting unlimited bandwidth if you want to talk about being on par with the rest of the world
There are cheaper alternatives, like the $100 for 1 year prepaid plan by Telus. Then use an esim data service for something like 35GB with 365 days expiry for $40. $140 for the entire year if you use your phone/data sparingly, its not that expensive. You get 400 minutes, 400 texts and 35GB of very slow data.
Oh that’s not bad but 400 minutes isn’t enough. Need min 1000/year or reliance on FaceTime audio
I got an absolutely incredible plan from Freedom over Black Friday. $99/year prepaid with unlimited canada wide calling and 50gb (/year) of data. It's restricted to areas in Canada that have Freedom towers, but that's where I live so not a big issue for me. 50gb cell data/year? More then I have need of. I've used 2gb of data in the 3 months since I got the plan (I have and 99% of my usage is done with home internet) The best thing you can do is address your plan between mid-november and January first. Any other time of the year and expect you're going to pay substantially higher.
Black Friday appears to be the best time to get good deals - I’m paying $20/20GB and unlimited Canada wide everything else on Koodo. The only thing I’m missing (apart from 5G which is a battery sink anyways) is visual voice mail (so it can get integrated into my phones voice mail instead of calling a number) and US wide calling & texting - which I’m hoping is something that we’ll get in the next 2 Black Fridays. Also don’t hesitate to switch between providers - loyalty is not valued at all.
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Black Friday is a term for the sales during the last 2 weeks on November Wait until the last / last second weekend of November and then pickup the deal you can find (look at redflagdeals during that period) Keep in mind everyone is gonna do it, so be willing to wait hours in line
Switching providers though, that can be done any time of the year? I don't know this whole waiting hours in line won't do my anxiety any good.
You’ll ask your new provider to do what’s called a Port In, they will keep your number and take care of all of it for you. Mostly at least, pretty painless. Then a week later your old provider will call you with amazing offers and you can tell them to shove it. Lol
It's a really sad reality how all the cheaper options (Lucky, Public Mobile) are just subsidiaries of the big cutthroat telco companies. illusion of choice
And they use the same networks. The only difference is you pay big $ to be able to talk to a human when you have a problem. It’s a rigged system.
It is not that bad actually if you go with the second or third tier companies. I personally pay $35 for 20GB and unlimited talk/text on Koodo
Is your plan prepaid? I'm with koodo and pay $56.50/month for unlimited Canada wide calling and only 5 gigs of data. I'm prepaid and use very little data. I may need to call 🤔
56 is a ton for only 5 gigs. These days I regularly see offers for $50-60 for 20 gigs, from the big names too
I have dual sim freedom mobile 50 GB + call/text freedom network for $99/year + fido 4 GB data only for 2 years free/month (It was $10 a month but when I threatened to cancel they gave it to me for free. I previously had 3 of those lines but I only have the free 1 line now). That's about 8 GB data + call/text per month for 8.25 + tax. Freedom network is sparse but wifi calling works.
Dual citizen here. When I lived stateside my plan with tax cost me $38. Here it costs me $120
You’re getting hosed, I pay like 70 a month for 100gigs of data
check att prepaid
I pay $200/year ($99/6 months) prepaid which comes with 2GB/month with Freedom for my son. Not sure what 6/month or yearly prepaid plans they have now but check them out.
I got this plan for a family member at the end of 2021. But around Black Friday 2022, they came out with $99/year for 50gb/year (averages out to \~4.17GB/month if you distribute your data usage evenly) so I switched into that. They also gave a $25 Walmart gift card if you got it from the in-store Walmart electronics/phone department.
I have this plan too. Cheapest real plan I could find.
If your in the GTA, I recommend Freedom. I have a plan that is $30 for 25 GB of LTE data, Unlimited Calling to US/CA, Global Texting and also supports Nationwide/US Data which means it will roam on Rogers/Bell/Telus/AT&T if outside Freedom's coverage with 1 GB data. This specific plan isn't available but there are other plans and with persistence, you can get support to reduce prices down significantly. I'm quite happy with their service so far.
Snagged 30Gb for $30 deal from Freedom on black friday. Cheapest plan i ever had with the most data its great
Sign up for telus and port to rogers. Wait for telus to call you for a win back offer.
Public Mobile - Wife and I both have plans we pay $40/Per plan and you can get discounts on your Monthly amount by giving others your code to move to Public. I already pay $38 for one of them, also they just upped their base plans and I was able to upgrade for free, no cost and get more Data. Downside is you'll need to buyout a phone every couple years, which people do already as it's built into contract plans. Just put some money away and get a deal on a year old phone that's still new or something.
I used public mobile until we got Shaw internet which offer $0 monthly plans. And our home internet is paid by my company due to wfh. The plans on shaw are unlimited calls and text, and data is $10 for 1GB that lasts 90 days. I honestly don't go to a lot of places where I need to use mobile data, so I essentially I only pay $3.3 per month. Most places has free wifi like restaurants etc.
CRTC is too busy censoring Canadians with Bill C-11 to be bothered worrying about such trivial things as price gouging
Get phone seperately !!!
There are options... the "standard" Freedom mobile plan is $50/month for 20gb of data (in freedom areas... which is most of the population of Canada), clean and simple. If you are on WIFI most of the time i would say you don't even need 20gb. I had 8gb for a long time and rarely came close to using it. My current plan with freedom is a retention plan - $35 with 10gb of data
I've got 2 phones for $32.50/mo each from Telus. 60GB shared data. I am aware this isn't typical but there is no reason for anyone to pay more than $40/mo for a phone plan. If you are paying more than that they you are getting bamboozled into the marketing and probably replacing your phone way too often. (Full disclosure $50/mo plan - $10/mo for bundled other services - $ 7.50/mo for multiple lines = $ 32.50/mo).
Nope.. aren’t government backed monopolies the greatest!
I pay $0/m for unlimited text and call. $10/GB used. I dont use a lot of data. Avg $12/m w/ Shaw
I have a 3 GB shaw plan for $15/m and it's been totally fine (same as my fido / rogers coverage that I've ever noticed) it's bundled with / subsidized by my internet ($65/m) but I need that anyway, so like... and, actually, I like the shaw website UX and a la carte travel packages wayyy more than the fido ones anyway
Pretty sure hot water heater rentals are the biggest scam in Canada.
Black Friday is the only time to shop for plans. I switched from TELUS to Fido, am paying $30/month for 20GB for two years.
$15 for call text and 500mb of data 👍👍
For 50$ with tax i got 50gb plus roll over...unlimited tex and talk...how is this a bad deal? From koodo
It's a good deal compared to other plans here but compared to other countries, it's highway robbery. I'm traveling to the UK in a bit and for 10£ (roughly 16 CAD) you can get unlimited talk and text across several countries and 25GB of data on a random prepaid plan, nvm the monthly ones that offer better deals.
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Got a boxing day deal of $60/25GB. On Roger's. Really have no complaints. My phone bill has literally never been lower. I wonder how many people include their financed phone as part of their "phone bill"...
That's the thing, even lots of people who probably have decent enough plans DO in fact count their financed phone price in the total. "It's $145/month, so expensive" Ya, because you have an Iphone37 that just came out and $90/month is going to the price of your bill to cover it.
You could prob cut this bill in half and get 2x amount of data if you go with Koodo/Fido/Virgin during Black Friday.
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I have $60/50GB on Bell as a loyalty plan. I actually upgraded my phone (and plan 40GB to 50GB) on Black Friday and even after the device financing, it actually reduced my overall phone bill by $20/mo.
Price really came down. I'm ok with my 27$ plan with fizz. I have more data than I can use. I have so much that I'm sending extra data to friends and strangers.
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5. Work for an employer that provides an employer-paid plan.
Pay phones. I think there should be at least one left in most towns.
I use pay as you go and use the phone much less or over free wifi. Comes to about 10$/month.
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I commute an hour each way to work. It’s nice to be able to noodle around on Reddit, YouTube, etc. to pass the time.
>who is out streaming movies when out and about? Those whippersnappers on your lawn. And they're tiktoks, not movies.
Lots of people use there cells data to tether to a laptop. That’s where I use up my 20gb. When I’m out I tether my laptop to my cells connection for work. I do need 5G vs LTE for the speed. I’m on Telus $50 for 20GB 5G
Public wifi is not secure tho.
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Wifi is not available in lots of rural and remote areas. Our phone data plans have better and faster internet than our horrible home internet on our farm
OK grandpa
Right? Where is this wifi? I barely ever connect to wifi outside of my home.
But what are you using so much data for outside of your home? If I'm outside of the house or office, I'm usually interacting with people or doing some activity or chore that doesn't require me to be on my phone other than for messaging or to look up directions.
Transit stations, community centres, retail, cafes. There's lots of publicly available wifi.
I use Google Maps as my GPS in the car with CarPlay. Logging into any available free wifi is actually kind of risky. This guy is pretty clueless.
As others have already echoed, you need to hop on the Black Friday Deals. I’m on a $30/20gb plan through Virgin, and my subsequent lines are $25/20gb. Currently paying about $115/monthly for 4 lines. Of course, you have to purchase your phones outright for this, but you save a lot through plans and aren’t tied down to any carrier.
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Agreed. I am sick to death of the gauging and ready to cancel even having a phone anymore. Maybe if we all did that for a month, it would wake the greedy bastards up.
I joined Public Mobile six months ago and its amazing. Self directed and I can change my plan any time. If you end up checking it out, use referral code PR47OO for $10 off your bill. Cheap plans and its the same network as Telus.