Effective March 12, 2010, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation waiver promotion and are continuing to waive the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account.

Eligibility & Restrictions

The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans:

Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature” plans: Unlimited Network Calling, MY5, Double Your Minutes, Messages)
Family/Couples Plans, primary and … Read More

Effective May 4, 2010, Rogers/Fido will be increasing the price of sent international text messages by $0.10, from $0.25 to $0.35 per sent international text message. The price change applies to both prepaid and postpaid customers:

The pay-per-use rate for received international text messages will stay the same at $0.15 per received message.

The pay-per-use rate for sent text messages to the USA will also remain the same at $0.25 per sent … Read More

Effective today, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation waiver promotion and are continuing to waive the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account.

Eligibility & Restrictions

The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans:

Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature” plans: Unlimited Network Calling, MY5, Double Your Minutes, Messages)
Family/Couples Plans, primary and secondary lines (new activations only)
Business sharing … Read More

Sometime this week, Apple and the Canadian wireless carriers increased the 3G file size limit for App Store downloads up to 20MB.

Previously, when users were connected to 3G, they could only download apps that were up to 10MB in size. Anything greater than 10MB needed a WiFi connection.

The new limit is now 20MB and anything greater than 20MB will need WiFi.

However, unless you have the Rogers/Fido 6GB data plan, we … Read More

Effective February 11, 2010, Rogers and Fido are waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account.

Eligibility & Restrictions

The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans:

Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature” plans: Unlimited Network Calling, MY5, Double Your Minutes, Messages)
Family/Couples Plans, primary and secondary lines (new activations only)
Business sharing plans, primary and secondary lines (new activations … Read More

Today, Rogers and Fido released new plans and as compared to the last quarter plans, and even beyond that, the new Rogers plans especially are by far the worst they have ever done.

New Rogers Plans

1.) $30, $35, $40, and $45 consumer plans received “unlimited mobile browsing” as an option add-on. (not compatible with iPhone)

2.) $30 consumer plan lost My5 Local (talk, text unlimited) and was replaced with My5 Local Talk … Read More

The middle of December 2009 concluded what was expected to be the final round of Rogers/Fido local calling area reductions. Wrong.

Effective March 15, 2010, Rogers/Fido are further reducing Local Calling Areas across Canada.

What does this mean?

Local Calling Areas (LCA) are invisible geographic boundaries that determine which calls are billed as local calls and which calls are billed as long distance calls. Your LCA is the geographic area in … Read More

SIM Cards, or Subscriber Identification Modules, are the small smart cards that sit inside our iPhones and give us our connection to the cellular network. SIM Cards also come free with a phone/device purchase.

Normally SIM cards have a long life, usually in excess of five years, but sometimes they “burn out” or are defective. When the SIM card does not work, this usually requires a trip to the carrier store … Read More

Effective January 28, 2010 (but in full deployment as of February 2), Rogers/Fido have improved their WhoCalled mobile add-on feature.

WhoCalled has received mixed reviews from customers in that some love it and some hate it, but for those that don’t know what the feature is, I’ll briefly explain.

WhoCalled is a feature that alerts subscribers of the calls that they miss when their iPhone is off or out of service area. … Read More

Effective January 24, 2010, Fido will be launching a Prepaid version of the entry level contracted $40 CityFido plan. The new CityFido Prepaid plan will be available in nine cities across Canada, which include Calgary, Edmonton, London, Montreal, Ottawa/Gatineau, Toronto, Quebec City, Vancouver, and Victoria.

The CityFido Prepaid will include the following plan features:

$45 per month

1000 in-zone anytime local minutes (Billed by the minute)
Unlimited Incoming/Outgoing Text Messages (Canada-wide)
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