iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

By Ex on December 10th, 2010

To remain “competitive” and combat recent offers from WIND Mobile and Mobilicity, this morning Fido released a bombshell $50 Unlimited Minutes Plan. The new plan is a promotion and expires on December 31, 2010 and for some reason is NOT available for smartphones (AKA: iPhone)! $50 Unlimited Plan This new plan from Fido is available…

By Ex on December 9th, 2010

In the January 2011 issue of Consumer Reports, the group provides a solid analysis of different mobile phones and wireless carriers. While most of the ratings are US-based, they did also compile a Canadian wireless carrier list. The Consumer Reports ratings on the Canadian wireless carriers are based on 12,317 Canadian responses, which includes a…

By Ex on December 6th, 2010

Let’s do a brief recap of recent Fido activity: 1.) The company updates its CityFido plans so they can be used in any CityFido Zone in Canada. Survey says: Good 2.) Then the Rogers/Fido network (same company) starts to fail in reception and just overall quality. Survey says: Bad 3.) Then Fido decides to charge…

By Ex on December 6th, 2010

The following update is pretty huge for Fido! Effective December 6 2010, Fido has made 6PM early evenings a standard feature across ALL of their price plans that include the evenings and weekends feature. Previously, Fido plans started their evenings at 7PM, but with recent activity from Koodo and Virgin, 6PM is now standard. This…

By Ex on December 6th, 2010

In May 2010, Rogers launched a new text messaging service called “Extreme Text Messaging”. The service simply gave Rogers customers more options to control and manage text messages and eventually Extreme Text Messaging became the standard text messaging package for Rogers. This month, Fido has launched Extreme Text Messaging, forever bringing Rogers and Fido customers…

By Ex on December 4th, 2010

Effective December 1, 2010, Fido has changed their iPhone sales policy. Going forward, any customer who wants to purchase an iPhone on Fido or renew their existing service on Fido with an iPhone, must have a minimum $25 voice plan and $25 data plan to receive promotional pricing. For example: Customers who sign a 3-year…

By Ex on November 30th, 2010

Recently, Fido has been rather quiet and not making changes for the worse. However, that is about to change slightly. It looks like Rogers is pushing some of its negative influence on Fido, as effective December 1, 2010 Fido will be charging a $25.00 administration fee on all hardware upgrades. The Administration fee will be…

By Ex on November 18th, 2010

Effective today, Fido has revised their two existing CityFido Plans. Previously, when subscribed to a CityFido Plan, users could only use their minutes within their CityFido Zone, which was one of the following cities: Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Ottawa, Montreal or Quebec. Using minutes outside of your zone meant paying a per…

By Ex on October 28th, 2010

Effective November 2 2010, Fido is extending its free activation fee ($35) until February 7 2011. The current $35 activation fee credit promo expires on November 1, 2010. In other words, the promo ends and then immediately starts again. For all you new prospective Fido customers that want an iPhone 4, you won’t be paying…

By Ex on October 20th, 2010

Rogers really had me fooled for a while. For about the last 12 months, they have managed to stay out of the negative light and basically stopped changing their policies for the worse. Well, I guess they just couldn’t wait any longer to make some horrible changes. Effective today, Rogers is changing their hardware upgrade…