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Looking to get an iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS on the cheap? Check out the "refreshed" iPhones from Telus. Telus is offering a limited quantity of low priced refreshed iPhones on a 3-year agreement. The refreshed iPhones are exclusive to the Telus online store, which means they are not available in a Telus store or...

A couple of months ago, Rogers/Fido extended their tethering "promotion" to expire on May 3, 2010. As long as users had a 1GB or higher data plan, they were able to use tethering as part of their 1GB data bucket. As expected, effective today, Rogers/Fido have dumped the May 3 expiration and made tethering a...

March 2010 is turning out to be the month of Canadian wireless carrier promotions! First Rogers launched their free 6PM early evenings add-on and waived the $35 activation fee (Fido too). Then Bell followed, with Virgin Mobile (only $35 wavier for Virgin), and matched the same promotions. Then Telus followed Rogers/Bell and released their own...

Effective March 12, 2010, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation fee waiver promotion and are continuing to waive the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans: Mega Value Plans (All...

Effective May 4, 2010, Rogers/Fido will be increasing the price of sent international text messages by $0.10, from $0.25 to $0.35 per sent international text message. The price change applies to both prepaid and postpaid customers: The pay-per-use rate for received international text messages will stay the same at $0.15 per received message. The pay-per-use...

Effective today, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation waiver promotion and are continuing to waive the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans: Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature”...

Sometime this week, Apple and the Canadian wireless carriers increased the 3G file size limit for App Store downloads up to 20MB. Previously, when users were connected to 3G, they could only download apps that were up to 10MB in size. Anything greater than 10MB needed a WiFi connection. The new limit is now 20MB...

Effective February 11, 2010, Rogers and Fido are waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans: Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature” plans: Unlimited Network Calling, MY5, Double Your...

Today, Rogers and Fido released new plans and as compared to the last quarter plans, and even beyond that, the new Rogers plans especially are by far the worst they have ever done. New Rogers Plans 1.) $30, $35, $40, and $45 consumer plans received "unlimited mobile browsing" as an option add-on. (not compatible with...

The middle of December 2009 concluded what was expected to be the final round of Rogers/Fido local calling area reductions. Wrong. Effective March 15, 2010, Rogers/Fido are further reducing Local Calling Areas across Canada. What does this mean? Local Calling Areas (LCA) are invisible geographic boundaries that determine which calls are billed as local calls...

SIM Cards, or Subscriber Identification Modules, are the small smart cards that sit inside our iPhones and give us our connection to the cellular network. SIM Cards also come free with a phone/device purchase. Normally SIM cards have a long life, usually in excess of five years, but sometimes they "burn out" or are defective....

Effective January 28, 2010 (but in full deployment as of February 2), Rogers/Fido have improved their WhoCalled mobile add-on feature. WhoCalled has received mixed reviews from customers in that some love it and some hate it, but for those that don't know what the feature is, I'll briefly explain. WhoCalled is a feature that alerts...