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My only experience with Uber was in San Francisco where it was great. The fact that Vancouver is still banning it probably means it's better than taxis, which are prohibitively expensive and try to do things like bullying my wife into paying with cash - even driving her to an ATM in the middle of the night against her will.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:driving her to an ATM in the middle of the night against her will. Uhhhhhhhhhhh you reported that to the police right?
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Oh man public mobile has US roaming now? Anyone know how the service is on it?
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MA-Horus posted:Oh man public mobile has US roaming now? Anyone know how the service is on it? Not sure but those prices don't look great. $30usd on tmobile gets you unlimited calling and texting and 2gb data for 20 days I think. Public is $20cad for talk/text/250mb for 10 days. Maybe if they offered more data
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:The fact that Vancouver is still banning it probably means it's better than taxis, It means Vancouver might give a poo poo about labour laws
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Scudworth posted:It means Vancouver might give a poo poo about labour laws  Layton
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Canpol and ios threads merging in the Canadian telecom thread... All we need are some gamers in here and we can get ready for Jesus' second coming.
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MA-Horus posted:Oh man public mobile has US roaming now? Anyone know how the service is on it? I've used it once or twice. Service in the US in my experience is generally awful compared to the reception I get in Canada. Public mobile roaming was pretty much the same as any other SIM I've used in the US. It worked but I think the American carriers need to invest in their infrastructure far more than they do. (I might be wrong since I have limited experience and maybe the locations I've been are uniquely bad) (Re:uberchat, ber have some pretty despicable business practices, but then so do the cabbies in Vancouver. I think ideally we'd have an uber-like service where they actually paid taxes and followed regulations, and didn't order fake rides on competing services to try to put them out of business)
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Services like Roam Like Home are totally worth the fee imo, over things like how Wind offers US roaming.Evis posted:(Re:uberchat, ber have some pretty despicable business practices, but then so do the cabbies in Vancouver. I think ideally we'd have an uber-like service where they actually paid taxes and followed regulations, and didn't order fake rides on competing services to try to put them out of business) Correct! I don't know anyone personally who is against the whole concept of ridesharing services, just what Uber specifically does.
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Zigmidge posted:Canpol and ios threads merging in the Canadian telecom thread... All we need are some gamers in here and we can get ready for Jesus' second coming. I've got 8,495 posts in the XBox One thread if you need a gamer to deride.
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The medium is the message you guys! *nods sagely*
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So how's the cell service on Public Mobile?
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Exactly the same as Telus and Koodo. All three share a network. I believe it's technically possible for a carrier to prioritize customers on different brands but I've never noticed this happening.
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Give a goon a referral when you sign up and save them a buck or two, then post in this thread for the next referral. I still haven't gotten one hint hint (PM me for my phone number, bless). Coverage has been great in Vancouver but god forbid if you need tech support.
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Lexicon posted:Is the 4GB plan still available? Not right now. I'm guessing they will have twice a year sales
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I assume you could always sign up for the regular 2GB plan and then switch out for the 4GB if they ever re-introduce it?
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Chris Knight posted:I assume you could always sign up for the regular 2GB plan and then switch out for the 4GB if they ever re-introduce it? Those types of deals are almost always just for new accounts.
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Fido ON has an unlisted $50 5gb plan if you chat with their support.
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https://www.verizon.com/about/news/get-unlimited-data-network-you-deserve-verizon so if im reading this right, if I sign up for a verizon account for $80 I get 500MB of data per day in canada? $80 for 15gb sounds pretty good.
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Can't watch a full movie with that limit unless its 480p, but I was always wondering when we'd hit the point US roaming on our own network would be a better deal than service via Canadian telcos. Rogers delenda est
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Mister Macys posted:Can't watch a full movie with that limit unless its 480p, but I was always wondering when we'd hit the point US roaming on our own network would be a better deal than service via Canadian telcos. We've been bordering that point for a while more or less, depending on the deal you can get down south. Considering their response to outrageous roaming fees is "  we don't make any profit, honest. we're just passing the cost onto you" I expect them to be " they strong armed us into those rates and you're destroying Canada by taking advantage of it."
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Any word on nougat for this piece of poo poo S7? Apparently there's a 10% battery life drop to look forward to. I want my loving Sony compact back so bad. And why do you all hate Uber? It's fuckin 2.3 million dollars to go 5 feet here in Newfoundland and all the cabbies are up against it here too. I used to live honestly 1-2 minutes from the airport, grabbed a cab home from a flight once, ride was $13 which was already ridiculous. I hand over a 20 and say $5 change is good, "actually" the guy says and points to a sign on the dash that they add a $5 charge to resedential addresses from the airport for previously unexplained reasons. loving rogues.
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Uber is run by a insane Libertarian fuckwad who's current goal is to litigate and use cheap "Contractor" slave labor to drive everyone else out of business to create a monopoly. Once they reach this point they will switch to self-driving cars and employ nobody as well.
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DariusLikewise posted:Uber is run by a insane Libertarian fuckwad who's current goal is to litigate and use cheap "Contractor" slave labor to drive everyone else out of business to create a monopoly. Once they reach this point they will switch to self-driving cars and employ nobody as well. Furthermore, since the drivers aren't employees of Uber, if something happens in the car - death, dismemberment, etc- Uber may not be liable in a court, leaving you to sue only the driver who probably has no money anyway, instead of the multinational company that generates millions of dollars of revenue. The cars are also not insured as taxis, so good luck getting anything from the insurance company. NB: I am not a lawyer.
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codo27 posted:Any word on nougat for this piece of poo poo S7? Apparently there's a 10% battery life drop to look forward to. I want my loving Sony compact back so bad. People are against Uber, not ridesharing in general, false equivalency. Uber is scummy evil pieces of poo poo, but we do need a better system than taxis. I've heard Lyft is a lot less lovely? I used them in the states and it worked great.
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Whats the deal with unlocking phones? I remember with my old S3 I was able to do it myself free with a site that looked up the unlock code. Whats the most legit go-to way of doing this?
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codo27 posted:Whats the deal with unlocking phones? I remember with my old S3 I was able to do it myself free with a site that looked up the unlock code. Whats the most legit go-to way of doing this? Buy an unlock code on eBay or compare their prices to any of the "canada cell unlock" sites, they are infinite. All of these options appear sketchy but they're not. Usually it's around $5. Someone is going to post their fav site for this moments after this reply I'm sure.
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What IS the deal with unlocking phones? I understand why carriers would want to lock customers to their network, but how do these sketch town websites get a hold of legit unlock codes and what's stopping the average person from just doing it themselves?
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BANME.sh posted:What IS the deal with unlocking phones? I understand why carriers would want to lock customers to their network, but how do these sketch town websites get a hold of legit unlock codes and what's stopping the average person from just doing it themselves? Its a program (or multiple ones) that understands the algorithm to generate the code from the phone's IMEI, like keygens are for software. The average person would have to pay for one, I've seen them being sold for several hundred dollars. Giving these away would cost all these businesses a lot of money, they're too profitable to give away even at $5 per customer and the people reverse-engineering the software on phones to figure them out work too hard to give it away.
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Did all the us roaming prices go up?
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Competition Bureau and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) just approved the sale of MTS to Bell. gently caress this country
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Newsflash: Trudeau is a neoliberal free trade Clintonite, just like Wynne. It's been nice having healthcare while it lasted... 
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Yeah, first our mobile data rates, then the Canada Health Act 
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CLAM DOWN posted:Yeah, first our mobile data rates, then the Canada Health Act I believe you mean "entitlements for those too lazy to get a white collar education".
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Uh, I am an educated white collar worker and still make use of the provisions in the Canada Health Act?
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