Koodo Mobile has just revised their Canada-wide calling packages to include Voicemail and Call Display facilities with an increment of $5/month for each price plan (via Mobilesyrup). The change has already gone live starting from February 3rd, 2012 and seems to be a pretty reasonable move by the company since Call Display and Voicemail would otherwise cost you $7/month each.
In addition, all plans still include Canada-wide calling, but have shifted towards per-minute billing, not per-second, and overage increases by 5 cents to 45 cents/minute. You can read more details here.
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Does this include visual voicemail if you have an iPhone?
No, Koodo does not support VVM at all, though they say they are working on getting support. But beware: there are many stories on the net (and one I can relate from personal experience) of the people working Koodo kiosks at malls saying, “Yes, we do support VVM,” when what they’re thinking of is voicemail-to-text (something entirely different).
even some Virgin Mobile CSR do not know what VVM is…
the first time I called to get it added, they added the voicemail-to-text option…
I finally spoke with someone that understood what I wanted and added the correction option…
I couldn’t find any mention of VVM of Virgin’s website. Do I mind if I ask how much they charged you for it? Also, did you add it to a talk-and-text plan, or do you have one of their smartphone-specific plans?
I think that the smartphone plans have the VVM by default…
I added the VVM to a talk-and-text plan (city unlimited)…
they charge 12$ for the VVM.
Didn’t the $20+ plans once include unlimited text messaging? You can’t do much with 50.
No they didn’t. You still had to add it for $5. They did however have an addon that was Call Display, Voicemail and Unlimited messaging for $10. I’m on the older $25 canada-wide plan, with this addon, and Data Saver, I pay the exact same amount as I would if I moved up to the new $30 canada-wide plan (which has the same features) except on the new plan, I’d be losing 50 anytime minutes (100 vs 150) and I’d be losing per-second billing. Therefore, I will be stricking with what I have 🙂
These plans are all bull shit designed to gouge the consumer.. It’s like saying you have the option of a super extra small coffee, extra small, small, or you can have a pale of coffee.. if you go over the limit on the other plans you pay tons of money.. I hate these bastard phone companies.
For the most part these plans and any revisions are almost always smoke & mirrors. They give with one hand (to include Voicemail and Call Display facilities with an increment of $5/month for each price plan) and yet take with the other (but have shifted towards per-minute billing, not per-second, and overage increases by 5 cents to 45 cents/minute.) Someone obviously crunched the numbers & figured they’d easily recoup the money that they’re “saving” you offering $5 add-on bundles but switching to per-minute billing. Once again the un-savvy Canadian will get the shaft!
I can’t understand what your trying to say really. To me, when I look at these plans I find them very good.
Take me for instance. I work in Fermont and the only three companies that have reception there are Bell, Telus and Koodo. On top of it, when I make phone calls, they are received by a cell phone tower in Labrador(making all my phone calls in Quebec CANADA long distance). I wasn’t aware of Koodo in the beginning so I went with Bell.
After hours spent talking with various un-qualified Bell representants who don’t know what they’re plans are, here’s the best I managed to get: 500 minutes(with the 40$ option to turn those minutes into Canada unlimited minutes), unlimited text message, voicemail, caller ID, and 6GB of data. All that, for the little sum of 144$ tax included per month, when I don’t bust my 500 minutes, which only happenned once in the last 4 months.
Now take a look at Koodo… 40$ canawide unlimited minutes, 5$ unlimited text, and 30$ for 3GB flex data…(I usually spend less then 2GB per month, so it’s going to be less then 30$). Add that up and that’s 75$. Almost HALF of what I’m paying with Bell. I once got a bill of 230$ with Bell two months ago.
See?
The City Koodo Unlimited plan has also added the Call Display and Voicemail.
But, they removed Unlimited Texting.
Koodo has confirmed on their forums they will not be implementing visual voicemail. If you need that feature almost every other carrier has it.