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If it's an android phone, you can try turning off Mobile Data from the phone and trust that the option is buried deep enough in the settings that he won't accidentally re-enable it.
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Kreez posted:There's no Wind/Mobilicity in Montreal. I think Videotron snapped up the equivalent AWS spectrum in Montreal.
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Props to Koodo for rolling out Jelly Bean in a timely fashion. It took them months to ok ICS, but I got the notification for the 4.1.1 update this afternoon.
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Everything I've read has indicated that that carriers have the ability and propensity to delay updates that even hardware manufacturers have signed off on. 
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Jul 24, 2012 00:20
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Zarkov Cortez posted:What phone? The S.
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Jul 24, 2012 03:35
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That's why the real growth in the Canadian cell phone industry is in... financial services? It would actually be neat if Public Mobile was pushing those services through their subscribers' phones, but it looks like they'll be issuing their own physical Mastercards and do the rest through their retail outlets.
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Lexicon posted:It's not availability so much as cost that's the issue... there was this one cheese that I really liked as a kid, called Roucoulons. My family went on a trip to France after my parents paid off their mortgage, and you could get wheels twice the size there for half the price.
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Nitr0 posted:lol. You're not getting jack poo poo for data unless you go with Telus. Telus has the best footprint and speed so there's your choice. Koodo is a Telus brand. They use the same equipment and have the same coverage. The only thing that differs is the kind of plans.
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Nitr0 posted:Thanks captain obvious. You're here to save the day again. You're welcome. You seemed to be having a little bit of trouble figuring it out in your posts.
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The Current had a segment on the mobile telecom market in Canada recently, and the different people they had on estimated that the big three incumbents are carry 90-94% of subscribers in the country.
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Apr 22, 2013 09:12
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Is anyone familiar with the situation with Shaw's unused bandwidth? Has the government put any restrictions on them selling it off to one of the big incumbents?
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Apr 25, 2013 00:54
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Squibbles posted:Oh and most providers with a tab system such as Koodo allow you to build up your tab if you don't currently have one. Koodo lets you build up to $150 in positive tab credit so next time you go to buy a phone your tab hit won't be as bad if you end up leaving early. That only becomes helpful if you have an expensive plan, though. My plan only costs me $25 a month, so it would take five years to get to a positive tab.
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Martytoof posted:"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." Rogers lowered their bandwidth cap the moment Netflix announced their entry into the Canadian market. The only way to break our telcos out of this pattern is with a heavy stick.
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I went to a Koodo kiosk on the off-chance they'd have some Nexus S-sized screens protectors after this happened: They didn't, predictably, but the employee did recommend buying a defunct model off ebay or craiglist and trying to salvage the screen/digitizer from it. Is that type of repair job likely to work in the long term if I go to some local repair shop with the two phones in tow, or should I buy a screen film to hold stuff in place for now and just expect to have to buy a new phone relatively soon?
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My uncle's Fido contract is ending, and they're offering him a Moto X if he goes for an unlimited canadian talk/text plan + 1GB of data for $50, but he wants an outside opinion before re-upping. Any red flags?
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I'm not site how top gauge that, since he's only been a talk and text user until now, with some terrible Samsung phone running Froyo.
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I use a smartphone without a data plan. Who are these people who get up in your grill for not using the internet? 
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A contract that includes a new N5 will overvalue it, so if you decide to leave the carrier, the balance on the phone subsidy has the potential to be higher than the price Google charges. e: to be a bit more specific Telus/Rogers/Bell consider the 16GB version a $500 phone. The Dark One fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Jan 29, 2014 |
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Aphrodite posted:Correct. A rare few phones are sold unlocked even through carriers, but that's mostly the case. Google actually charges $350/$400 in CAD, so we aren't losing out because of the exchange rate yet.
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Lobok posted:I've heard it's because it's a day ending in Y. No wonder the plans cheaper in Quebec!
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The CRTC has slapped Rogers' wrists for locking small regional players into exclusive roaming contracts. This bit at the end caught my eye. http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/crtc-seeks-to-ban-exclusivity-clauses-in-wireless-roaming-contracts-1.1940926 quote:But OpenMedia.ca said the price caps mandated by Industry Canada are still 3.5 times higher than what independent wireless providers are paying south of the border.
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grack posted:The special case is that the government is completely gutless when dealing with telecommunications service providers. The US, too. http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/11/atts-outdated-unlock-policies-cost-it-a-loyal-customer-me/1/
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Scudworth posted:Koodo's 2nd cheapest plan is also 300/300, but country-wide calling and unlimited worldwide text/MMS. If you check their website, it's the plan for people who want the latest i/Galaxy S phone on subsidy. Koodo's equivalent is the Tab Large plan, which starts at $85 for unlimited minutes and 750MB of data.
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Nov 27, 2014 03:48
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Does anyone know how much of the monthly bill in a standard two-year contract actually goes towards paying off the phone? I mean, the big three all claim to be giving you a $485 subsidy on the various flavours of the iPhones 6, but how much are they paying for them wholesale?
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slidebite posted:I bought my unlocked moto g at staples and they gave me a sim of my choice. Speaking of, have they given the Moto G XT1034 the OTA upgrade to Lollipop? I'm on Koodo and it only updated to 4.4.4.
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Demon_Corsair posted:If you are on wind have a moto x (2014)* and just got the lolipop update, for the love of god, do not loving run the update, it will brick your phone! http://mobilesyrup.com/2015/01/22/wind-mobile-users-complaining-of-problems-with-moto-x-lollipop-soak-test/ quote:“Yesterday we began testing Android 5.0 Lollipop by pushing out a beta upgrade to a small number of WIND Moto X (2nd Gen.) users in Canada. Some of those users are reporting issues with the test upgrade and we are actively looking into the cause. We’re asking the owners that have been impacted to return their affected Moto X to a WIND store for a replacement. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this causes.” So the soak 100% bricked the phones. 
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It's happeningggggg.
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Just got a notice for 5.02 on my Moto G. I'll see you on the other side.
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No issues issues for me, so far. One distinct improvement: I can play Threes while listening to something in Beyondpod without the latter being dumped out of memory after a few seconds. On the other hand, I now have two Photos entries in my app drawer.
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Koodo just waived the ~$42 balance on my tab with no explanation. Does anyone know why they'd do this?
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May 30, 2015 01:12
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The prices Koodo lists for US roaming look like extortion. Is there any other way to get coverage without popping out the SIM for an American one?
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My dad wants to upgrade from his flipphone (!!!) to a Moto G gen 3 so that he can take it with him on a trip to France. When he walked into a Telus store, they told him that they would only sell it locked. Is there any way to unlock the phone, provided he buys it outright?
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spoof posted:If he's going to buy it outright, may as well not get it from Telus since 1) he'll have to pay $50 to get it unlocked, 2) they only sell the 1GB RAM model. Spend the extra $50 and get the unlocked 2GB. On the offchance, do you know who sells the 2GB version it in Quebec? I wasn't able to find anything that wasn't from a carrier. e: besides Motorola, which is selling it on amazon.ca for the low, low price of $344.00. 
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Not specifically about Micro-USB, but if you've got a phone with a type-C port, you should crosscheck any cable with this Google engineer's reviews. A lot of manufacturers are using cheap resistors that can't handle the increased voltage the standard allows.
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Nov 16, 2015 00:31
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My dad has complained to me that his 3rd Gen Moto G (on Telus) hasn't received any of the Marshmallow security updates that it should have- the latest patch is from December 1st 2015. Does this sound like a problem on the carrier's end?
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So the Moto G4 Play that Canadian telcos are hawking is cobbled together from the discarded leftovers of the G3, right?
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Aug 31, 2016 22:18
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I get a $150 credit if I buy a phone from Koodo's online store, but their online selection seems to be complete trash right now. Anyone know if they'll refresh to a newer model of Moto G any time soon?
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I turned on my LG G6 for the first time in a while and... it actually had the Android 9 OTA available. Congrats guys, it took over a year and a new major release stopped in the mean time, but the phone is finally running something newer than 8.0!
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I got the Koodo retention call for 20GB of data yesterday and my roommate got it today. That's... a lot of data.
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I suspect that they look for people who've been 1) regularly paying on time 2) aren't close to hitting their current cap That way it's basically free money for them if you end up paying an extra five bucks a month or whatever.
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