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Wow, the plan look much better than Bell. At least I get long distance for 65$ with included voice mail

I just got mine!! FINALLY!

although it's lame how they don't give you any discounts or free stuff for renewing.. even though I've waited for so long and been with telus for so long..

oh well.. I'm finally like the rest of you!

Just waited out for one. Telus offers current customers no ability to upgrade without paying full device price. It's cheaper for me to buy out of my contract and switch to Bell or Rogers, and the girl actually told me to do that. Talk about great customer service.

Now that all the plans are out, has anyone done a proper comparison of Bell, Vs. Telus, Vs. Rogers' iPhone plans? From what I read here, Telus is generally better than Bell, but I'm curious how Rogers fits in. I am just about at the point where I can upgrade my blackberry, and I am trying to decide between an iPhone or Bold with Rogers, or paying the cancelation and getting either an iPhone or a Hero with either of the other two companies.

I went into telus today at 930 and was told that their “activation system for iphone only” was down SYSTEMWIDE, so i was unable to get the phone. they took my number and said they'd call me when its up, what i do not understand is how the person that posted above got one…..not impressed.

Congrats! Welcome to the world of iPhone!

the plans are too poor – I was going to be upgrading but I will not be now. I will wait for Wind/Dave to bring some price competition to Canada.

How much data do most people use? I would think more than 2 GB a month so that would make their plans even more expensive. Is wind really coming to Canada and I would not expect any better plans than the bad ones we have.

Dan the issue is with Rogers, ongoing issue since 11/3 that they can't send text back to Telus. Rogers knows of the issue and doesn't have an ETR.

Yes there will be a prepaid option for the Telus HSPA network. No pricing yet and you will need an unlocked HSPA-ready phone. There might be phone bundles coming out but no news yet. That's actually what I'm going to do as I'm a Fido client that works for Telus.

Considering the lowest iPhone plan is $50 and at the bottom, it says you can add unlimited texting and Caller ID for $15, I wouldn't say you got those two features for free @ $65.

I just ran the speed test.. Download: 2169 Kbps Upload: 279 Kpbs

Just got mine at 9:30 this morning! D So it's weird for Dan that they told ya their ENTIRE system was down…I'm in ottawa and I got in the store at 9:30 and came out with my iPhone at 10:10!

So far so good! I have to agree that the Loyalty people are the way to go! I re-signed for 3 years ( I had 1 year left on my contract) and they renewed my entire features (except for unlimited data) for less than I was paying before! )

So definitely call the loyalty program if you want something good!

Oh and btw… The iPhone rocks! ;o) hehe

Is visual voicemail not added on by default? On their site under smartphones (but not iPhone) it says visual voicemail $7.50 which seems really high for it. I don't have any voicemail waiting I don't think but when I click voicemail it just said calling voicemail…. I don't really care about visual voicemail but not sure if I'm missing something here.

On WiFi just got 4428 kbps using Cisco Speed test, and on 3G only 662 which is odd. In safari websites on 3G or Wifi load at the same speed, soooo fast.

Got it this morning.

Still had 10 months left on current contract, so initially they only wanted to give me $150 off (they said for 6 mons remaining or less they honour the special 199/299 pricing).

After a fair amount of talking to customer service and loyalty reps while in the store I managed to get $200 off + they gave me 5pm evenings and caller ID (which I needed anyway and adds up to more than the value of the remaining $300 difference with the promotion price for the phone).

I'm still waiting for my phone – supposed to be done by the end of the day. I talked with Telus Sales regarding Visual Voicemail and all the guy could tell me about was Telus' “Voicemail to text” which they call visual voicemail. I'm not sure if on the iPhone the voicemail key functions the same as it does on Rogers. Anyone know?

i think telus and bell's commercial style match iPhone more (white background, simple) ^^

has anyone jailbroken their telus iphone yet?
would like to know if telus put up any annoying safeguards on the iphone

Lol i totally called it . so many of my friends had high hopes for Telus. I told them not to hold their breathe. No deals will be comming out of Telus. They will follow suite with all the other carriers, or charge MORE due to the new network, and label it as “Premium” lol i have heard a lot of complaints on many forums so far lol

just wait for the network hiccups too. They just got HSPA days – weeks ago , probably still working it out. that was the 2nd part of my prediction.

Btw Congrats to all those who managed to score a good Telus plan, hopfully you didnt have to put to much to get your iphone, But congrats non the less

Yes

Texting services have been down since I signed up and still aren't fixed. When I call customer service for technical support I'm told that nobody is available and get disconnected.

For me the issue is that I can't receive text messages from Rogers phones. Somebody said earlier that the issue was resolved yesterday, but I am still experiencing the same problem. I have received texts from telus numbers, but I can confirm that the rogers text dont come through.

Anyone know anything about that?

Thanks!

Quick update- when I did pick up my phone yesterday they had it all ready to go for me. The nice girl there even let me keep my free caller ID that I had gotten with my retention plan. So I got the $50 plan and no charge for the caller ID. I wasn't expecting any discounts because the plan was completely different, so that was a nice suprise.

Even though it wasn't ready for me right away, I was very satisifed with the service from the location.