Telus has made some changes to its plans, specifically dropping the amount of data for its Canada-US-Mexico roaming plan.
After finally debuting a similar plan like its rivals back in November, this North America roaming plan from Telus was priced at $105 per month with 150GB of data. But recently, the data bucket was lowered by 33% to 100GB of 5G+ data.
As of writing, three 5G+ plans offered by Telus are more expensive than similar offerings from Rogers and Bell. The price below can drop $5/month for bring your own device or new phone activation customers for 24 months:
Rogers 5G+ plans are as follows after Automatic Payments Discounts:
Bell’s plans only offer 5G+ speeds once you spend at least $75 per month, but as you can see its 120GB and 150GB plans are essentially in line with Rogers:
Quebecor’s Freedom Mobile is offering a Canada-US-Mexico plan for $55 per month with 60GB of data after automatic payments and a $10/month credit for 24 months. That’s nearly half the price compared to the ‘Big 3’. This plan originally debuted last summer at $65 per month.
It’s unclear why Telus has lowered its data amount for its most premium North America roaming plan, when its rivals are still offering 150GB, which is a pretty substantial difference in data. We’ve reached out to Telus for comment and will update this story accordingly.
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Aren’t these plans unlimited, with the listed data amount (ex. 100GB) only being the limit at the fastest speeds? And aren’t the carriers shovelling all this data at us now basically because their plans are unlimited and, past a certain amount, the extra data doesn’t really matter for most users anyway because people generally aren’t downloading massive files using their phone plans?
I guess it’s interesting to know you have a 150GB unlimited plan rather than a 100GB unlimited plan, but in practice, I don’t think it makes much difference.
I love that we’re still paying almost $1 per gb in 2024. How is this okay?