Fido

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...

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...

Effective today, Fido has revised their two existing CityFido Plans. Previously, when subscribed to a CityFido Plan, users could only use their minutes within their CityFido Zone, which was one of the following cities: Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Ottawa, Montreal or Quebec. Using minutes outside of your zone meant paying a per...

Effective November 2 2010, Fido is extending its free activation fee ($35) until February 7 2011. The current $35 activation fee credit promo expires on November 1, 2010. In other words, the promo ends and then immediately starts again. For all you new prospective Fido customers that want an iPhone 4, you won't be paying...

Rogers really had me fooled for a while. For about the last 12 months, they have managed to stay out of the negative light and basically stopped changing their policies for the worse. Well, I guess they just couldn't wait any longer to make some horrible changes. Effective today, Rogers is changing their hardware upgrade...

This past summer, and what seems to be a recurring promotion each year, Rogers/Fido released their amazing $30 6GB data plan. Rogers/Fido typically release this data plan when a new iPhone comes out and this has been the trend since summer 2008. However, as summer comes to an end, so does this promotion. Effective September...

This week, Fido has announced that it is expanding its wireless voice and data network, while updating existing wireless coverage in Manitoba. The network expansion is said to bring high speed wireless voice and data to the existing coverage in Manitoba and also to new areas including: Thompson Flin Flon The Pas St. Theresa Point...

Today is a great today for Canadians as Apple has started to take Canadian orders for the iPhone 4 through the Apple Canada Online Store! In the USA, France, Germany, Japan, and United Kingdom, iPhone 4 pre-orders went live on June 15, 2010 for a launch date of June 24, 2010. At the time, it...

Today is a great today for Canadians as the pricing for the contract and outright iPhone 4 has finally been confirmed! In the USA, France, Germany, Japan, and United Kingdom, iPhone 4 pre-orders went live on June 15, 2010 for a launch date of June 24, 2010. At the time, it was confusing to why...

**Update1: How to find out your iPhone 4 Fido upgrade eligibility: click here TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. Here we go again. More iPhone 4 pricing rumours, however this time around it's embedded in the Fido website source code. Here's what Adam discovered from his digging (Chantelle Joy also found some goodies before...

This week, select Rogers and Fido store locations have started to receive microSIM cards for the iPhone 4. While many Rogers locations already have microSIM cards for the iPad, those SIM cards are "preactivated" and cannot be used with the iPhone 4. Pricing The Rogers/Fido stores that have received the microSIM cards are selling them...

As we close on the end of July, we have seen some increased activity by the way of the Canadian wireless carriers. Within a few days of the iPhone 4 reveal, each wireless carrier indicated that they would be carrying the iPhone 4 in Canada. Soon after, product/notification pages started to appear where users could...