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Bell will likely be the largest individual beneficiary of Bill C-18's implementation, with an estimated payout of $23-51 million or 15.6% of the total funds

Bell launched a new $80/20GB plan today, an “online exclusive” only available in Ontario. The $80/20GB plan has a speed cap with download speeds up to 250 Mbps and unlimited data at reduced speeds, once you’ve exhausted your original 20GB of data. The 5G plan includes hotspot capabilities and included unlimited calling, texting and data...

Bell’s prepaid brand Lucky Mobile has launched ‘flash sale’, offering up to 4GB of bonus data for 12 months. The 4GB data bonus is actually broken down to two required actions. For plans $35 per month or higher, you will get a 2GB per month bonus for 12 months. If you register for Auto Top-Up...

Back on Monday, we told you about a change that occurred last spring/summer sometime when Bell’s Virgin Plus had increased its data overages to $153.60 for 1GB, a 12% increase over the previous rate of $137.60 for 1GB. Fast forward two days later to Wednesday, Virgin Plus coincidentally lowered the data overage rate to $20...

Bell and Virgin Plus have kicked off roaming price increases today, one day after similar hikes came from Telus and Koodo. Roam Better from Bell and Roam Sweet Roam from Virgin Plus are now priced at $13/day for U.S. and $16/day for international travel, up from $12 and $15 per day respectively. These daily roaming...

Bell’s Virgin Plus has launched a $50/20GB promo plan, matching a recent offer from Fido and Koodo. According to the Virgin Plus website, the $50/20GB plan normally includes 10GB, but that has been doubled. It’s a “limited time offer” that works out to a $10/month credit for only 24 months. After that, the plan jumps...

Bell and Rogers are offering up a promo plan right now at $60 per month with 15GB of non-shareable data. Data speeds for these limited-time promo plans are at up to 150 Mbps on 4G LTE. Both plans include unlimited nationwide calling and SMS/MMS within Canada. Bell says data overages are billed at $20/1GB for...

Bell’s flanker brand Virgin Plus quietly increased its data overages in the past year, making it more expensive for people to use extra data beyond the amounts allocated in their plans. According to our checks, as far back as May 2022, Virgin Plus had the following data overages rates: Data use over what is included...

Earlier today Fido added a promo code for new online activations to nab a $50/20GB plan, but the Rogers sub-brand also made another change to match rivals Koodo and Virgin Plus. Fido has now bumped up its $55 plan to now have 10GB of data (was 8GB), joining plan changes made earlier this week by...

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....

Bell and two other major telcos are allegedly overcharging Canadians for 9-1-1 services by operating two emergency communications systems at the same time

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...