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frogg
May 20, 2006

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ZeeBoi posted:

Yeah, I'm dealing with this too right now. Switched my number recently and almost immediately kept getting calls from a company called IQOR. Added them to my contacts and made sure "send to voicemail" was checked. Usually catches the calls immediately.

I got calls from IQOR too when I signed up for a new plan/number with Fido. Their automated machine would call me twice a day without fail and I spent about two months getting upset about the whole thing. I kept bugging poor Fido reps but they couldn't do anything about it, they did leave a note on my account for a free number change but I never followed up on that.

I eventually caved and followed through with the instructions on the auto-dialer message (press # to be transferred) and it put me through to some lady to whom I politely explained my situation. She asked me for my number, asked if I was [name] and apologized when I told her I wasn't. I never heard from them again.

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frogg
May 20, 2006

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I went nuts on my data usage last month since I was mostly on the road and my bill was 30 bucks higher than I'd expected. I had the $58 Fido special from a while back (2GB data, unlimited calling/texts/pictures and visual voicemail and caller ID) until now, but after 611'ing Fido yesterday to see if I could weasel out of those overage charges again they ended up selling me on a new plan.

I'm now paying $64/mo. We agreed to cut down my unlimited calls to 400 daytime minutes (free from 6-10pm) since my calls never last too long and I'll never use that much anyway. This was in exchange for bumping my data up to 6GB. It's basically that $58 plan with less minutes and more data for an extra $6. That's pretty good right? It seems way better than a lot of the plans I'm seeing posted here but hardly anyone mentions Fido in this thread. Is there a downside (like terrible coverage or something) that I'm not seeing? I'm in a biggish city (Edmonton) so that hasn't been an issue yet.

Also, I couldn't get that $30 overage charge waived but they did offer to wipe it in exchange for signing me up for a 2 year contract which costs $12.50 to break out of anytime. I was paying month-to-month before and it was nice so I probably should have just eaten the charge and stuck with it, but this doesn't seem too awfully bad either. About 17 bucks cheaper even if I cancel it long before the 2 years are up.

frogg fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jul 10, 2013

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