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Bell Launches Business Wi-Fi App in Ontario and Quebec

Bell has launched its Bell Business Wi-Fi App for small businesses in Ontario and Quebec, which lets small business easily manage their network. The Bell Business Wi-Fi App from California-based partner Plume, offers enhanced security with three separate Wi-Fi zones, providing increased protection for business, employee, and customer internet usage. It features an easy guest...

Rogers Edges Bell and Telus for ‘Best’ 5G Network in 2024: Study

Rogers has been ranked as the most reliable wireless network in Canada by Germany-based umlaut, once again. Out of a total 1,000 perfect score representing voice, data and crowdsourcing, Rogers scored 894, Bell was at 871 and Telus at 856. Last year, scores were at 889, 874, and 859, respectively. Rogers went up 5 points...

Virgin Plus Finally Matches All Plans from Fido and Koodo

Last week, Bell’s Virgin Plus tweaked its plans and pricing to almost match rivals Fido (Rogers) and Koodo (Telus), but now we’re seeing the same plans across the board, as expected (finally). Here are Virgin Plus’ current plans for bring your own device: $39/20GB $44/40GB $49/60GB (after $5 off for 24 months) $65/75GB 5G The...

Telus Increases Price of All 5G+ Unlimited Plans

Telus had some “promotional” plans that were set to end of July 14, and as of today, the company has increased the price of its premium 5G+ plans, which have the fastest download speeds of up to 2 Gbps. Check out the changes below: $35 talk and text $65/75GB (new activations only) - 5G Essential...

Virgin Plus Tweaks Plans and Pricing to Match Fido and Koodo

Flanker brands from Rogers, Telus and Bell continue to align their plans, to nobody’s surprise. After seeing price increases from Fido and Koodo, Bell’s Virgin Plus has again tweaked its plans to align with its competitors. Here are Virgin Plus’ current plans for bring your own device: $39/20GB ($5 decrease; was $44) $44/40GB (new; matches...

Bell Must Pay Man $1,000 for Poor Customer Service, Rules Court

Bell has been ordered by a Quebec Court judge to pay a Montreal customer $1,000 after determining the he experienced a “Kafkaesque” ordeal when trying to cancel his satellite TV plan. Judge Luc Huppé criticized Bell’s customer service process that was endured by Gilles Tessier in spring 2019, calling it unnecessarily burdensome. “Requiring a customer...

Bell Acquires Stratejm, CloudKettle for Enterprise Cloud Solutions

Bell announced today the acquisition of technical services firms Stratejm and CloudKettle Inc., enhancing its professional and managed services in cybersecurity and Salesforce. With these additions, Bell aims to offer enterprises a better AI-powered end-to-end customer experience, leveraging its pure fibre and 5G networks, to help medium and large companies transition to digital and automation...

Rogers Tops Telus and Bell in Latest Internet Rankings: Opensignal

Rogers has emerged as the top broadband provider in Canada, according to a recent Opensignal report that has published new data. Opensignal told iPhone in Canada Rogers now leads for ‘Reliability Experience,’ what it says is a new metric that measures the ability of Opensignal users to connect and complete ‘uninterrupted’ tasks on internet networks....

Virgin Plus Hikes Price of Select Black Friday Plans and More

Last November, flanker brands of the Big 3, Koodo (Telus), along with Fido (Rogers) and Virgin Plus (Bell) offered $29/30GB plans for Black Friday. These plans were available from dealers at physical retail locations, available for new and existing customers. Fast forward nearly eight months, and now we’re hearing of Virgin Plus increasing the price...

Bell Seeks Injunction to Block Rogers from Warner Bros. Content

Bell Media has filed for an injunction to prevent Rogers from broadcasting Warner Bros. Discovery content for two years. This move comes as Rogers is set to take over the Canadian rights to that programming in January 2025. Bell submitted a court application on June 19, claiming that the licensing agreement announced nine days earlier...

Bell and Virgin Fixing International Roaming Outage

Bell is actively addressing a widespread wireless outage affecting its customers roaming internationally, as reported by the company in updates shared over recent days. Today, June 29, Bell provided an update to say, "We are continuing to make good progress on the intermittent service disruption affecting customers traveling internationally that has been impacting multiple wireless...

New on Crave: July 2024

Bell has shared its list of what’s new on Crave for July 2024. Highlights include the movie premiere of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, plus the HBO original documentary Quad Gods. Also new in July is the fourth season of Snowpiercer and the movie premiere of The Book of Clarence. As expected with summer...