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But I mean you gotta worry about getting kidnapped or machete'd so I guess I'd pay a little more to talk on my cellphone and not have to worry about all that  Wait I forgot what my point was. Oh yeah, gently caress Canadian Telco.
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That's downright nice. Giving serious thought to ditching Rogers. I might wait to see how this Verizon thing shakes out though, since I'm not DESPERATE to find something better. A cheaper bill would be nice no matter what, though.
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Jul 9, 2013 19:46
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Yeah, 2gb is more or less reasonable IMHO. For sporadic "checking poo poo on the go" and occasional "downloading a thing" use it's pretty good. People on the go more than me could probably easily burn through 2gb quickly, but I think 2 is a REASONABLE thing to include in a basic plan. Like 500mb was borderline ridiculous. I never once went over, but I also had to majorly restrain myself.
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Jul 9, 2013 19:59
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This, plus the stuff in the Toronto thread today makes me want to pick up and move back to Europe 
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I have no expectations that Verizon would be an amazing player in Canada, but at this point I am rooting for anything that the big three aren't in favour of.
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It might be naive, but I agree with the above. I hope that a new entrant would have to be a little more competitive. I'm not expecting budget-carrier competitiveness or anything, but just having some sort of gimmick that could be construed as being better than the big three. At this point I just want some sort of PROGRESS towards better carriers, even if it's incremental. Then again for all I know it could just be "the big four" after Verizon sees the dollar signs.
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"BCE Inc. says it is likely to scale back efforts to bring advanced cellphone services to rural Canada if large foreign telecoms like Verizon Communications Inc. are allowed to enter the Canadian market under preferential rules." -- a threat
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VERTiG0 posted:My iPhone 4 is completely hosed now, the voice mic no longer works (so I can't actually use the phone to speak into) and the home button works maybe 1/10 presses. My contract isn't up with Rogers until Sept. 20. Fuckkkkkkkkk. I know this isn't what your post is about, but there's a chance that the voice mic is a loose IC on your motherboard and you can shim it with a cut up credit card to MAYBE fix the problem if you have the screwdrivers to get into it. Mine has this exact same problem and the shim at least got it working until the new 5s or whatever comes out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPR8qrAcg5g
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grack posted:Stop by a Rogers' store and ask them to transfer your account details on to a nano sim. It'll probably cost you about $10. They'll do it for free if you get a nice rep. Or maybe I just charmed the hell out of the girl doing my transfer. I guess we'll never know 
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Hmm. Based on prior iPhones on Rogers, will upgrading to a 5s just be as simple as calling in and saying "I want a new 5s for $199 with my current contract"? I'm currently off contract / month to month. Family plan, but I just want my line to get the handset upgrade. The others are currently happy with their mom/dad-phones. And if that's the case, will only my line be put back on contract? My understanding is that we're all off contract but I'm not 100% sure how these things work with a family plan. Do we have ONE contract that covers three lines or THREE contracts that cover one line each. I'm doing my own research right now but I figure it can't hurt to ask.
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I switched from my Rogers phone to a company phone on Telus so I'm going to be cancelling my family plan thing. I've got my parents on my plan so they're going to have to find their own two-line solution. Any go-to recommendations for two person plans with any particular carrier? They don't need a lot. I think my dad uses a few MB of data every month and my mom doesn't use any data. I doubt they would use even 120 minutes between the two. I'll obviously be doing my own research but if there's a no brainer solution I'm missing please let me know.
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Finally told Rogers to shove it after getting on my employer's new corporate plan. That 30 day cancellation notice is kind of a bullshit unabashed moneygrab though. I'm sure it wouldn't take them 30 days to shut off my line if I, say, stopped paying them. Oh well. I should have known to cancel earlier anyway, no big thing.
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I know the new wireless code requires carriers to allow same day cancellation but I don't think it is retroactive to old accounts. I guess I should be pissed but honestly I can't get that worked up about it. I should have expected this and cancelled sooner so really it's kind of my fault anyway. If I've got some free time maybe I'll look into ways around it but for now I guess I'll just pay the $190 or whatever for the extra month of service on the three lines I cancelled. Wow, when I think about it that's actually quite a bit of money on the table 
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I guess this may be a dumb question, but is your uncle unhappy with his existing setup? There's also something to be said for just staying with what he has off-contract.
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Speaking of Telus, did anyone have their data go completely out yesterday evening around 7? For about an hour or so.
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Let me run this scenario past you guys: - I have a company provided iPhone 4S that is giving me some trouble. We're with Telus. - I would like to upgrade to a Nokia Lumia 625 which is apparently $200 with no term as listed on their website. - I'm pretty sure my company could swing an upgrade, but I don't want to get my company involved since I'd like to keep this phone if I ever leave. My goal is just to get a Telus locked phone for now and use it with the SIM card that is in my iPhone. So my question: If Telus is offering the phone for $200 with no term, does that mean that they are not subsidizing it in any way? If so, do we know if Telus will sell a phone outright without signing up for a new plan, even one with no term? If not, what is the feasibility of signing up for some crap plan with no term to get the phone at full price, then cancelling it immediately? I also have a Samsung Galaxy S3 that I don't really want to use, and the Telus trade-in value appears to be about $70 according to their calculator. How does this figure into the above, if at all? Sorry if this is a mess of a question. I really should be asking a Telus rep, and I will once I have time to meander to a Telus store, unless you guys know for sure.
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Thanks guys, I'll try BestBuy tomorrow. Worst case they just say no and I keep trying elsewhere.
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OilSlick posted:Unless I'm reading this wrong, this is a very simple transaction. Went in and did this today and it wasn't even as difficult as that. Didn't get any authority from my company. Just went in, asked if they had the 625, told them I wanted to buy it outright and that was that. They didn't even check if I had a Telus account  I was more worried that there were still going to be loopholes with the unsubsidized price, but nope. Easy peasy 
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Oh hey awesome, I just realized Telus doesn't enable Visual Voicemail for anything but iPhones 
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Lexicon posted:I thought only iPhones had it I know at least WinPhone supports VVM; I'm fairly sure Android does it too. I'm guessing it's not the same implementation as iOS but still.
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iLikeMidgets posted:I don't bother answering unknown numbers anymore. I figured if it's important they will leave a message. This gets really tiring after the fifth unknown call in a day. Of course,the alternative is to pick up every unknown call and that is much more tedious 
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Switching jobs and my company phone is going bye-bye. If I sign a new contract somewhere, are 416 numbers still hard to come by, or do I just have to ask for one? I don't really care about the deluge of collection calls or whatever.
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So here's what I'm thinking: Wind Mobile $35/mo plan: quote:Unlimited Province-wide Calling And an unlocked iPhone 6 from the Apple Store. I plan to do very little travelling outside of their "coverage" map, with the exception of Montreal. I suppose I could upgrade to their more expensive plan if I plan to be out of coverage very long. Does Wind support iOS Visual Voicemail, or am I going to have to use some lovely voice based voicemail like a caveman? Also still hoping for a 416 number so I'll have to check with Wind in the morning one of these days.. Anyway, any general advice on the above? Am I going to have a bad time on Wind? I'm not married to that provider, but I do find myself using about 2-3GB of data since I work from the train a lot, and I don't really travel outside of the Wind area, so I figured $35 was a good price for a no-contract thing to try.
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So aside from Wind, is there any "budget" plan that will get me a fair amount of data (I do a lot of RDP on the train to work on my office desktop) that anyone would recommend? I consider budget to be anything at or under $50. I don't see myself leaving the GTA so I was going to try Wind out. Heck, it's no contract so I may try it just to see if I'm happy with it anyway, but it can't hurt to solicit advice. Either way I'm going to buy my own iPhone since I don't want to be locked into anything long-term.
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That's what I figured. I'll try Wind and if it really sucks I'll weigh my options then Thanks all!
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Kind of had a lovely porting experience from Telus to Virgin but they finally got it done after the 3rd try. Also Virgin was just spewing 416 numbers so I shouldn't have been so worried about not getting one -- and in the end I just ported my existing business number over anyway.Godinster posted:Nope you just generally need the account number [or IMEI/SIM I believe] from the old line. Family plan should have no effect. They needed the account number in my case for sure. I had te IMEI/SIM from my Telus line but that wasn't enough, unfortunately. Which makes sense I guess, that you have some kind of information identifying that you're somehow involved in the actual contract to begin with.
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Reverse Centaur posted:He said it's usually a $10 charge. What, to cut it down? For $10 I'd just expect them to give me a new SIM card.
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My company gave me a blackberry on Rogers. I tether to that on the lakeshore west GO train every afternoon and man -- non stop data dropouts between Union and Aldershot. Compared to Virgin that had rock solid reception everywhere. How can it be so crappy?
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Is there any point in hoping WIND will stop being lovely for reception? I'm pretty happy with Virgin but $70-something for 2GB that I constantly fight not to go over -- I'd gladly give up LTE for that if I could just be sure I'd get reception in a major city downtown. 3G unlimited data for $40-something sounds pretty good right now. Especially since summer lets me do a lot of my office stuff in a coffee shop while tethered.
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Kenny Logins posted:I found the iPhone price this year to be steep but it's nice to upgrade every 2 years unlocked and give my old unlocked phone to my wife and it's still good for her for another 2 years. This is my plan too. I've got a 6 and given that it's got everything I'll need for a while and Apple Pay NFC for down the road then I'm perfectly happy to wait another year to see what the 7 comes up with. People tend to prefer the S->S upgrade cycle but I'm okay doing the opposite. Paid full price for my phone and haven't given it a second thought since, but then again I'm perfectly happy with 16GB so who knows, maybe next upgrade will be price prohibitive. I suppose if I really felt that way I could just go back on contract or something, but I don't see that happening.
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Aphrodite posted:Come on, you know we're never getting Apple Pay. If you say so :B
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Anyone using Koodo in downtown Toronto? I'm thinking of jumping ship to their 5gb data plan 300 minute calling plan since I go over my 2GB Virgin data cap regularly. Today I got the warning that I have 200mb left for December and I'm kind of ready to just find something that won't hamstring me. I forget what I'm paying base right now but I'm trying to keep it around $100/mo
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cowofwar posted:How much can I get for my 3GS? Maybe the cost of the bus ticket to meet the seller.
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Man, I shouldn’t be surprised but is visual voicemail still a pay feature with the new Rogers infinite plans? I just got one and I’m only able to call VM. I guess somehow I thought I read that it came with enhanced voicemail but I guess I was wrong. Sigh, Canada.
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Just went to the Rogers store to have my SIM converted to eSIM. Dude literally didn't ask me for any ID, name, nothing, just asked for my phone number and sold me a $10 QR card. Didn't even check that the phone I had in my hand had the number I claimed to have. Just the kind of quality service I can expect from Rogers. If your phone number gets jacked don't be surprised at ALL.
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65 with no data sounds less like a loyalty plan, and more like an obedience plan.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I pay $75 for 20gb Infinite on Rogers so that's lol Huh -- I'm at 75 for 10GB which is driving me bananas as I'm constantly maybe 2GB over and throttled by the end of the cycle. 20 shows at 85 for me. Did you get in on a deal?
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"ACTUALLY, I think you'll find that Canadian cell phone plans are TOO good" - Someone at Telus, probably
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