Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

This week, SaskTel announced that its wireless network has expanded its 3G+ wireless coverage to serve 26 additional locations across the province of Saskatchewan. "Construction of the 3G+ network is a significant development for SaskTel and its customers in Saskatchewan," said Bill Boyd, Minister Responsible for SaskTel. "When the network is complete in 2011 it...

Let's do a brief recap of recent Fido activity: 1.) The company updates its CityFido plans so they can be used in any CityFido Zone in Canada. Survey says: Good 2.) Then the Rogers/Fido network (same company) starts to fail in reception and just overall quality. Survey says: Bad 3.) Then Fido decides to charge...

The following update is pretty huge for Fido! Effective December 6 2010, Fido has made 6PM early evenings a standard feature across ALL of their price plans that include the evenings and weekends feature. Previously, Fido plans started their evenings at 7PM, but with recent activity from Koodo and Virgin, 6PM is now standard. This...

In May 2010, Rogers launched a new text messaging service called "Extreme Text Messaging". The service simply gave Rogers customers more options to control and manage text messages and eventually Extreme Text Messaging became the standard text messaging package for Rogers. This month, Fido has launched Extreme Text Messaging, forever bringing Rogers and Fido customers...

Effective December 1, 2010, Fido has changed their iPhone sales policy. Going forward, any customer who wants to purchase an iPhone on Fido or renew their existing service on Fido with an iPhone, must have a minimum $25 voice plan and $25 data plan to receive promotional pricing. For example: Customers who sign a 3-year...

Basically to combat Telus, Bell has launched a new Fab 10 student plan for iPhone. The plan expires on December 31, 2010. Fab 10 Student iPhone plan The new Fab10 Student iPhone plan is a new plan from Bell available on a 3-year contract. With the plan, customers receive promotional pricing on an iPhone device...

In November 2010, Telus introduced “Flex Data” to its existing iPhone plans. Now, Telus has expanded the Flex Data to their Student 55 iPhone plan. Student $55 iPhone plan The new Student $55 iPhone voice & data plan with flex data keeps the same base voice plan such as the minutes, evenings, My10, and available...

Until December 31, 2010, Rogers has launched their free 6PM early evening add-on for all new activations and existing customers. The 6PM early evenings calling bonus is available on the following 3-year term in-market plans: Unlimited Voice plans Unlimited Voice and Data plans Student plans Family plans All new activations will automatically have the 6PM...

Until December 31, 2010, Telus has launched their free 6PM early evening add-on for all new activations and existing customers. The 6PM early evenings calling bonus is available on the following 3-year term in-market plans: All 3-year consumer activations All new activations will automatically have the 6PM Early Evening Calling bonus automatically added upon activation....

This week Apple has updated its Universal Dock accessory package which provides users with a charging and syncing solution for iPhone and iPod. The dock also provides a method for users to attach their iPhone or iPod to a stereo, TV, or receiver. In terms of the update, the actual dock itself is unchanged but...

Here's some afternoon fun for you! Zero Punctuation decided to take a break from "reviewing" the latest console games to instead take a look at some of the hottest iPhone games, namely Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, and Fruit Ninja. If you are at all familiar with Zero Punctuation, and Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, then you...

Recently, Fido has been rather quiet and not making changes for the worse. However, that is about to change slightly. It looks like Rogers is pushing some of its negative influence on Fido, as effective December 1, 2010 Fido will be charging a $25.00 administration fee on all hardware upgrades. The Administration fee will be...