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By Ex on March 10th, 2011

Telus was first out of the gate to rebrand its wireless network as “4G”. This was then followed by Bell, Videotron, and now SaskTel and MTS. We’ve seen a lot of this 4G rebranding recently because the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standards gives carrier authority to market their network a certain way. In this case,…

By Gary Ng on March 9th, 2011

Update: the image has been removed from the Rogers website. The Rogers website has various images of Apple products, such as iPads and iPhones. However, on their Internet page, there is an image of an Apple iMac that has a missing Apple logo on the front–but poorly removed. First spotted by our very own Ex…

By Ex on March 7th, 2011

Last November, Telus introduced a new upgrade policy that enabled Telus customers to renew their contract early and get a new device earlier than normal, but pay a fee for the convenience. Normally, Telus customers must wait until the end of their current contract term to receive promotional pricing on a handset renewal/upgrade. After the…

By Ex on March 7th, 2011

In the beginning of February this year, Fido indicated it was making some huge changes to their prepaid CityFido plan on March 6, 2011. This week, the company made good on its promise and has decreased the prepaid CityFido fee by $5.00 and added 1,000 more minutes, making the new total 2,000 minutes per month….

By Gary Ng on March 5th, 2011

iOS 4.3 isn’t arriving until next week on March 11th, but it appears replacement iPhone 4 units have already started to come shipped with the latest iOS. iPhoneinCanada.ca reader Arif emailed us that his replacement iPhone 4 from Fido came with iOS 4.3 pre-installed. He also mentioned Personal Hotspot works great on Fido. Currently, the…

By Gary Ng on March 4th, 2011

Update: Rogers contacted us to say this forwarding has stopped. Let us know if you see these changes. We just got a tip about a weird change to the way Rogers handles 404 errors over the 3G network. If you’re in Mobile Safari and visit a webpage that is down, you’ll get the following message:…

By Gary Ng on March 4th, 2011

Update 1: More info via this CTV news article. Looks like Telus cut her off, then she called to get it turned back on. Ouch. But Telus spokesman Shawn Hall says that the phone company noticed a spike in Fero’s data use almost immediately after she left Canada. The company cut off her service, and…

By Gary Ng on March 3rd, 2011

Canadians are now complete. All of our iPhone carriers have confirmed they will support the Personal Hotspot feature coming next week in iOS 4.3. First it was Rogers/Fido, then Telus, and now Bell/Virgin. It’s true–our telecom giants do like to make moves in unison. Our friends at MobileSyrup received confirmation from Bell: “Yes, we will…..

By Gary Ng on March 3rd, 2011

Yesterday Rogers confirmed that they would support the Personal Hotspot feature coming in iOS 4.3. Today, Telus has done the same via twitter via a conversation with user @nickfruhling: @TELUSsupport Good morning, wondering if Telus will support iOS 4.3 Personal Hotspot feature when it comes to iPhones next Friday. Thanks! @TELUSsupport replied: @nickfruhling Hi, Anthony…

By Ex on March 2nd, 2011

When Apple released the early betas of iOS 4.3, the Personal Hotspot feature caught the eye of many iPhone owners. We all wondered whether the feature would be available in Canada, and even more importantly, would it be free? For those that don’t remember, Personal Hotspot is a new feature in iOS 4.3 that enables…