Bell and Rogers Say the World Cup Broke Records on Their Wireless Networks
Bell and Rogers have both released numbers today on how their networks held up during the FIFA World Cup. Rogers says it carried 510 TB of wireless data across the 13 matches held in Toronto and Vancouver, along with surrounding watch parties and fan zones. The company puts that at roughly 102 million photos shared....
A Rogers Insider Is Taking On Telecom Billing. He Says It’s Broken By Design.
A retired Rogers insider is asking the CRTC to ban advance billing, the practice that has nearly every Canadian paying for phone, internet and TV service 30 days before using it, according to the Toronto Star. Stephen Lawton, 74, spent 18 years as a senior adviser in the office of the president at Rogers, sitting...
Freedom Mobile Slams Rogers, Bell and Telus Over New Junk Fees
Freedom Mobile has launched a new campaign targeting Canada's major telecom carriers, accusing Rogers, Bell, and Telus of finding ways to charge subscribers extra despite recent regulatory changes. The carrier launched a dedicated campaign page on its website asking, "What The Fees?", to call out its incumbent competitors directly. Freedom Mobile said that when the...
Should I be the first to call the cops to report a consumer robbery?
Make sure you don’t use all your included minutes in your plan though.
Wow, what’s 200MB’s gonna get you? One download a month or something like that?
One tweet.
Is there a report on the average usage for canadian client?s everyone i speak to uses at least 2GB. i used from 4-6 a month. Anyways my points this, with the push of all these smartphones to the consumers. why continue to advertise the Data features of the phone if your giving us plans that will force us to go over the limits of the plan?
That’s the whole point.
I only use about ~700 MB a month on average. So for me, a plan like this isn’t actually that bad. I mean even if I go over 500MB that’s only +$10 which makes this $50/mnth.
I completely agree with your point though. They should just price the plans so they have a reasonable amount of data built in. I highly no one will use only <200MB of data, unless they only use it for emergency type situations. I did that about 4 years ago, but now there is just so much you can do on the go, that data is really a great thing to have in everyday life.
T-Mobile offers 200MB free for the new iPad… just sayin’
We need real and more competition, it’s sad when Roam mobile gets us better deals to ROAM than anything we have here in Canada.
That plan sucks @ss. Primus, on the Rogers network, offers $40 for 500MB, 200 daytime, unlimited Canadian long distance, evenings at 6PM, full VM (instead of the 3 message mini that Fido offers) CID with name display and unlimited MMS/SMS (international). So, much better (much more data, better VM and $10/GM overages) for the same price.
And the have a promo on right now to double the data and the minutes, so it is actually 400 daytime and a full GB of data for $40. Oh, the promo also includes making the plan 1/2 for the first 6 months, so only $20, saving a total of $120.
The only downside is that you have to sign a 2 year contract, but way better than the Fido plan. The Primus site says it is HSPA but their reps say that is simply outdated info on the site and that the data is LTE in any area that Rogers has LTE.
Why would anyone sign for such a crap plan with Fido?