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By Gary Ng on March 28th, 2012

The Rick Mercer Report has some of the funniest spoofs, and the latest one is just pure gold. It involves our favourite wireless carriers, Rogers and Bell as part of the new dating service called ‘Conglomermate‘. I’m not going to say anything more–just watch the video below: Previously, we’ve seen the RMR break down the…

By Gary Ng on March 21st, 2012

Telus has introduced a new trade-in program to allow customers to get instant in-store credit for bringing in their used cellphones, in a partnership with eRecyclingCorps: Working in collaboration with eRecyclingCorps (eRC), TELUS is making its trade-in program available to all TELUS customers, both new and existing. As of today, customers can simply present their…

By Gary Ng on March 20th, 2012

In an effort to make cellphone towers blend into their environment, Bell plans to build 20 towers disguised as pine trees in Muskoka, north of Toronto. The steel towers would be 25-29 metres tall and rise up above existing trees, covered with fibreglass branches, and set to be installed in May. Since they will be built…

By Gary Ng on March 16th, 2012

Yesterday and today Rogers tested out some ‘Sponsored Tweets’ on twitter, to promote their new service Rogers One Number, which we’ve reviewed previously. The new service is actually pretty cool, but when it came to this twitter ad campaign, customers turned the other way. When the @RogersBuzz sent out the tweet, customers started using the…

By Gary Ng on March 15th, 2012

Yesterday the Federal Government announced changes to foreign ownership rules of telecoms in Canada and noted details about the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. Feedback to the news has been mixed from newer entrants such as Wind and Mobilicity. Wind Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera thinks the rules don’t really change anything, but continue to protect the…

By Gary Ng on March 12th, 2012

Fido has modified their $50 Canada-wide talk and text plans to allow for three year terms, instead of just two, as of March 9th, 2012. This means those signing up for three year plans for a maximum hardware subsidy will now be eligible for this plan. It is available for new and existing customers. Here’s…

By Gary Ng on March 9th, 2012

Bell has announced their Mobile TV arm will now include Whitecaps FC games, to kick off the 2012 MLS season, which has the Montreal Impact visiting BC Place tomorrow: “As Premier Founding Partner, Bell is proud to offer Vancouver Whitecaps FC fans access to their favourite team on our innovative and industry-leading Bell Mobile TV…

By Gary Ng on March 6th, 2012

Koodo (Telus) has numerous iPhone users on their network as tethering is available with plans, but the only feature missing being Visual Voicemail support (which is apparently coming soon). Now, the company has released a Canada-Wide $50 voice and data plan which includes: 150 daytime minutes Canada-wide 1GB data Caller ID, Voicemail 7pm unlimited evenings/weekends…

By Gary Ng on March 3rd, 2012

Just the other day Telus launched some new promotional plans that included caller ID and voicemail. Now, Bell has countered back by introducing a $5 promo for Caller ID and Message Centre (Bell’s voicemail service), typically part of a more expensive $12 value pack. This add on will be available to all Fab 10 plans,…

By RoryPiper on March 2nd, 2012

Rumours are flying that Apple will unveil its latest mobile devices this year, supporting 4G/LTE networks. With competing devices on the market already supporting this new, faster technology, it seems highly likely that Apple would want to have the iPhone and the iPad on these faster networks. Canada Newswire posted today, that Telus Communications is…