Carriers

We’re back with some more carrier price increases, folks. Telus-owned Koodo has increased the price of its iPhone Visual Voicemail add-on by 60%, now priced at $8 per month. Previously, Visual Voicemail was priced at $5 per month. But a recent notice on billing statements said this price was increasing by $3 to $8 per...

The CRTC has released its commissioned report by Xona Partners that has summarized the “catastrophic" 2022 Rogers outage that affected both wireless and wireline services that impacted over 12 million personal and business customers, that lasted over 26 hours, before services started to be restored. "In this report we detail the findings for the period...

It looks like flanker brands of Telus and Rogers are set to end some promotional plans next week, possibly setting the stage for new plans heading into the heart of summer (for better or worse). Telus-owned Public Mobile has updated its website to indicate its promotional $29/40GB 4G plan will end on July 8, 2024....

It looks like Virgin Plus isn’t the only carrier that has increased the prices of select Black Friday plans. Telus-owned Koodo implemented their own change back in April. According to iPhone in Canada readers, Koodo included a notification in March billing statements about the price hike. One reader reported that their $34 per month plan...

Just over a year after acquiring Freedom Mobile in April 2023, Quebecor announced today it has met all nine commitments made by its subsidiary Videotron to Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED). The company sent a progress report to ISED earlier this week on July 3 to detail its promises made. Quebecor says it...

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....

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...

Here are the latest Canadian cellphone plan and device deals, plus other promos from wireless carriers such as Rogers, Telus and Bell, from our partner PlanHub. As always, the promos and plans may change at the last minute, but here they are as of Wednesday, July 3, 2024 (the PlanHub team took last week off,...

Canada's tax authority struck a deal with wireless carrier Iristel to stop seizing the latter's assets after accusing the company of a $63 million tax "sham"

Rogers says it has successfully conducted Canada's first commercial trial of Ericsson's 5G Cloud-Radio Access Network (Cloud RAN) technology at a nearly sold-out Toronto Blue Jays game on Canada Day. This technology builds on Rogers' standalone 5G core network launched in 2021. “Cloud-native technology is a critical component in the next generation of wireless networks...

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...

SaskTel has announced the launch of a new service aimed at protecting its Internet customers from cyber threats. Digital Security by SaskTel, powered by F-Secure, is an all-in-one application providing security, privacy, and identity protection across desktops, phones, and tablets. “Building safer communities is a top priority for our government and key part of our...