After Telus ramped up its unlimited Canada/US plan by increasing the data bucket to 150GB, Bell and Rogers have responded.
Yesterday, Bell updated its unlimited plans page to match the 150GB data offer and on Saturday, Rogers did the same.
Bell axed its Essential 50 plan at $55/50GB. New is the Essential 75 plan at $85/75GB, also matching Telus. The Bell Ultimate 100 Canada/US plan becomes Ultimate 150 with 150GB of data at $105 per month, like Telus. Bell says these two offers end on May 23, 2023 (but we know these end dates are flexible and usually get extended).
Bell is offering the following plans as of writing:
Rogers has also updated its unlimited calling plans to bring an $85/75GB offering, while its Canada/USA plan is also at $105 per month with 150GB of data. Here are the mobile-only prices Rogers is offering at the moment, at prices that require automatic pre-authorized credit card payments to get the lowest advertised price:
While data amounts are increasing, monthly pricing is staying relatively the same here if you want an unlimited 5G+ plan at full speeds.
Here’s an overview of what Rogers, Telus and Bell are offering as of May 20, 2023. You’ll notice Telus has a $90/100GB plan while the others do not. Yes, it’s a lot of non-stop dizzying plan changes to keep consumers confused for the most part:
Again, wireless tango remains alive and well in Canada from Rogers, Telus and Bell. If you want a 5G+ unlimited data plan, get ready to open your wallet.
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Do people stream movies every day to use up 150GB a month?
Pretty sure most won’t. The real issue is the inbred workers at the cartel who are of the mindset that $90 is a justifiable price point for a cellphone plan in 2023.
The idea that the employees have anything to do with pricing is hilarious.
Pretty sure most won’t. The real issue is the inbred workers at the cartel who are of the mindset that $90 is a justifiable price point for a cellphone plan in 2023.
i defiantly can use over 200gb a month live streaming outdoors and watching streams. 7gb a day is pretty easy, especially if you dont use wifi. updating/downloading apps. i have wifi at home and work and i still hit my 50gb/70$ cap monthly. live streaming apps like twitch/tiktok/bigo/liveme, etc, most people wont even go near 20gb. but i even notice my parents starting to use 50% of their 20gb/30$ cap
I have the same question.
I’m rarely out of a WiFi zone, so even though I am a heavy video streamer (I cut the cord years ago) I rarely use more than ~10 GB of mobile date per month. YMMV.
I stream YouTube during lunch at work and usually do about 75GB per month
Shaw sends violent criminals to your home and then prosecutes the victim
over the past few years… maybe months… i noticed them up the gb/same dollar value… they had the potential to give us this along time ago… just give us real unlimited throttled already. first carrier to do that will get all the business anyways. i
If I could do away with having two separate services (cellphone/internet) and just have a single connection in my house with 150-200gb data that would be great. Of course it would also have to come 99.9% reliability for up time. Right now my insurance policy is that if one goes down I have the other.
Spent the last two winters in SE Asia and paid $4.00 a week for unlimited data. Could stream netflix and watch hockey with no problem. We are so getting screwed here. Now we have one less company to compete. Until the government let actual competition in here it will never change. Same old song and dance from the Feds, the CRTC and the big 3.
Rogers says 150GB is not available. Anyone know what the plan code is?
Finally got it! There was some wording that it won’t show up until my 2nd or 3rd invoice. There is currently no mention of the 50GB bonus anywhere on my account. I guess I’ll have to wait.
How did you finally get it? Did you have to give Rogers a plan code?
I clicked on change my plan and it was listed
I guess the trend will be Rogers, Bell and Telus will battle it out in the high end for their premium services while the flanker brands will battle in the low end of the market. Right now the differentiator is 5G between the high and low markets.