Stories by Gary Ng

Rogers-owned Fido updated its website on Saturday to debut a $50/20GB plan for bring your own device customers activating online only. The plan is after a $10/month discount for 24 months when the promo code “fidopromo10” is used at checkout for new activations. The regular plan is actually $60/20GB and includes unlimited nationwide calling and...

Today, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada announced a joint investment with Ontario government to expand rural internet in the province at the cost of over $61 million. There will be six projects to bring high-speed internet to over 16,000 homes in 47 rural Ontario communities, along with 3 First Nations communities in Northern Ontario....

Shaw’s Freedom Mobile has debuted new unlimited data plans on its website, ranging from 30GB to 50GB for bring your own device customers. Yesterday, Freedom Mobile had $45/25GB, $55/35GB and $65/45GB unlimited LTE data plans. But today, these plans have become $45/30GB, $55/40GB and $65/50GB unlimited data plans for the same price, due to “5GB...

Apple Canada has just restocked its refurbished iPhone 11 smartphones this morning, starting from $539. As of writing, the 64GB iPhone 11 is in stock for all five colours Black, Yellow, White, Green and Purple. There’s a 256GB Black iPhone 11 available for $719. The iPhone 11 was launched back in September 2019 and will...

Apple’s Live Text feature recognizes text and information within pictures, but it also works when watching video on iPhone or iPad. This means when you’re watching a video that has text, you can interact with it in various ways, such as either copying, sharing or translating what’s on the screen, for example. Apple recently shared...

Meta announced on Thursday it has expanded its Instagram age verification test to Canada. The test initially launched in the U.S. last June, but today expanded to more countries. "Starting today, we’re beginning to expand our age verification test on Instagram to Canada,” said a Meta spokesperson to iPhone in Canada in a statement. How...

Yesterday, Alberta tested emergency wireless alerts and they went off far more than people had anticipated, showing up to nine shocking alerts. From 1:55pm to 2:01pm, the wireless alert test archive shows up to nine alerts sent in Alberta. Of course, many people were not too pleased. https://twitter.com/codename_julie/status/1631037139357155328 https://twitter.com/TimmCTV/status/1631037407024824320 https://twitter.com/laurby/status/1631037414318968832 As for why the test...

Last week Indigo revealed its recent ransomware attack resulted in employee data being leaked, including social insurance numbers, financial details, personal info, addresses and more. Employees were told to contact police and anti-fraud services. The cyberattack took down Indigo’s website and also disrupted digital payments in stores temporarily. Since then, Indigo has restored payments at...

Back in September 2022, Tesla applied for a Basic International Telecommunications Services Licence (BITS) with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Fast forward to late February 2023, the license was approved by the CRTC, reports Tesla North, as spotted by Michael Geist. No, Tesla does not have plans to start telecom services in Canada. Its...

Nintendo Canada has revealed its promotions for the upcoming “MAR10 Day”, or March 10, with new offerings for Switch consoles and sales on Mario games. “With a wide variety of activities all month long, we want all of Mario’s fans to know that every day can be a Mario Day,” said Devon Pritchard, Nintendo of...

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and the Ontario government announced on Thursday they will invest over $48 million to expand high-speed internet to rural parts of the province. The project will see YorkNet, created and owned by the Regional Municipality of York, bring high-speed internet to over 3,800 homes in 31 communities in Ontario...

Ahead of spring break holidays, Rogers, Telus and Bell have debuted new unlimited data plans with U.S. roaming. Telus made changes to their website yesterday, debuting the Unlimited CAN-US 100 5G+ plan, priced at $105 per month with 100GB of data, that includes US roaming for talk, text and data. Rogers and Bell changed their...