Back in October, Rogers-owned Chatr launched an annual prepaid plan that was $149 with 30GB of 4G data for the year.
Fast forward nearly two months, and Telus-owned Koodo has matched the Chatr plan (you’d think its Public Mobile would match it instead since it is prepaid).
The $149 annual plan includes 30GB of data, which works out to 2.5GB per month, totally self managed. While Chatr’s plan is for 365 days, Koodo only offers its plan for 360 days. Both include unlimited Canada-wide talk and international SMS/MMS, to go with extras like voicemail.
Koodo offers more than one annual prepaid plan, unlike Chatr. Here are the plans as of writing:
3G 360 Day Plans
4G 360 Day Plans
A $149 annual plans works out to $12.42 per month with 2.5GB data, which is pretty cheap for a backup phone or a plan for your kids or grandparents, for example. Public Mobile’s 4G plan with 1GB data costs $19 per month, prepaid.
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Biggest difference is chatr has unlimited data at slow speeds if you run out in its annual plan. Koodo does not. Also when you renew next year with chatr you get an extra 5 gigs bringing the total up to almost 3 gigs a month.
Yeah but those slow speeds left me with a device that was literally useless. They can offer all the unlimited data at slow speeds that they want, if i can’t use it to open an app it’s pointless while simultaneously being infuriating.
The 360 days instead of 365 is just plain stupid. Telus/Koodo are ll very late to the game with this one and they came with something inferior.
Inferior yes, but you have to keep in mind chatr is prepaid service. Koodo is not. So the plan will never match completely. In this aspect I think Koodo is the first player at the party. I'm a Rogers customer that was formerly a chart customer