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Perhaps this should be added to the OP for people that want to sign-up with either WIND or Mobilicity. It lets you check the signal strength in your area. Although the caveat is that it's crowd sourced so some of the low traffic areas may not be up to date. http://www.coveragemapper.com/map.php?mccmnc=302490
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MasterBuilder posted:What is the best (longest battery life mainly) smart phone that wind has? I am with them currently with a pay as you go flip phone and I get good reception where I live (Hamilton, Westdale area). From reviews, the Galaxy Note 2, then the Galaxy S III, then the Razr V. The Blackberrys' have decent battery life too, but really who wants a bunch of end-of-lifed Blackberrys.
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FISHMANPET posted:They don't list that $40 under their pay your way plan, so I have no idea how I would go about getting it. All of Wind's plans can be done on prepaid. "Pay your way" is just their pay-as-you-go plan, for their monthly plans ask for the "pay before" option in store. Then you just top up your account each month to keep your account active. But Wind does charge $25 for a sim card though, so yeah they kinda rip you off there.
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Nov 10, 2012 18:22
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Tedgewick posted:I'd love some help with an upcoming cellquandry if anyone has advice to give. I'm someone's tech support department and their 3 year Rogers contract is winding down in March. Currently they have an iPhone 3gs and love it. They are not tech savvy enough to use a lot of data or care if its delivered at 3g or 4g speed so the plan is to keep the current handset to save money and avoid another contract. So I'm going to be the one to haggle on their behalf with Rogers' retention to get a better month-to-month deal than their current and expensive free evenings after 9pm plan. Can someone give me a rough ballpark figure of a good value retention plan these days? What is the going price for a mostly-voice, low text, low data use plan in Ontario? Don't count on Rogers's retention giving you much of anything if you aren't willing to go on contract. Just have them switch to one of the big 3 flanker brands. For example Koodo has a $30 a month plan with 150 Canada wide minutes, unlimited SMS and MMS, 200MB of data, and Caller ID/Voicemail is included. Probably can't do much better from the big 3 at that price level even through retentions.
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Dec 7, 2012 20:40
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Heavy neutrino posted:Does anyone in the Ottawa/Gatineau area have words to say about WIND's coverage here? I'm finally free of my indentured servitude to Bell, and I'm looking to switch providers. Check coveragemapper.com for an idea of what WIND's reception quality is like in your area. Most people don't switch to the small 3 even if they are in their coverage areas. Either because they can't use an iPhone or perception of bad reception or of course are locked into a three-year contract. That and I think there's also a perception that WIND, Mobilicity, and Public are for "poors" and students. I work in Toronto's financial district, and a lot of my co-workers won't switch because hey "I can afford premium service".
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Dec 14, 2012 07:45
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Given how apathetic most people are about carrier pricing and three-year contracts. I'm not surprised at all if they'd be willing to just suck it up if their bills went from $60-$70 a month to $80-$90. People love their phones to the point, where demand for mobile service is pretty inelastic. The new entrant carriers haven't made much of a dent on the market even with unlimited everything at bargain basement pricing. Cause it seems the thing people care about the most are: 1. Network quality and having reception everywhere, even if they are only in the boonies like 1% of the time. 2. Getting the latest shiny phone for a cheap upfront cost. Whether they're getting gouged relative to the rest of the world is not high on their care list.
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Jun 3, 2013 14:04
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Dallan Invictus posted:About those three year contracts. The Big 3 can easily maneuver around this, they'll just switch to a tab system and get rid of fixed-term contracts. Fido for example has already done this.
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Jun 3, 2013 14:59
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If carriers are sucessfully held to two-year contracts (I think they might weasel out of it by arguing tabs aren't contracts/committments). Then we'll see them raise either rate plans and/or the upfront costs of the phone. Fido sells the Galaxy S4 for $450 on a two-year contracts as a current example. Going forward, it's pretty likely high-end phones will end up being $300+ on a two-year plan.
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Jun 3, 2013 19:59
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Verizon offers $700-million for Wind, holds talks with Mobilicity. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/verizon-offers-700-million-for-wind/article12815327/ Things are getting interesting here, Verizon certainly has the resources to wreck the big 3, and build a robust network if they can combine Wind and Mobilicity. However, you could've made the same argument about Vimpelcom, and they want out bad.
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Jun 26, 2013 15:53
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eXXon posted:Wow indeed, the cost of the current $40 promo plan (with voicemail) plus US roaming ($15) would be less than pretty much every US unlimited plan, and you get unlimited everything in both countries. I'd bet that it'll be either unlimited EDGE data or like 500MB of HSPA+ then throttled down to like 128Kbs thereafter.
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slidebite posted:So it looks like my new quadcopter software needs android 4+ so it's yet another excuse to buy a new phone. The Moto G Staples is selling is not the new Moto G that was just released in the US. The new Moto G hasn't been released yet in Canada. Phone Arena Comparison
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Martytoof posted: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. Nope, not even close for the big 3 (or flanker brands) on any in-market plans. The best you'll be able to do is the $55 - 5GB Koodo Manitoba/Saskatchewan plan, ymmv on jumping through the hoops to get that plan outside of those places. Either that or work in mobility for one of the big 3. Bell Mobility employees get 50% off any consumer plan.
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