Carriers

Quebecor’s Freedom Mobile has started rolling out its 3500 MHz spectrum, following in the footsteps of Rogers, Telus and Bell. The ‘Big 3’ started rolling out its 3500 MHz spectrum for “5G+” back in 2022. This spectrum allows for faster 5G and wider coverage and capacity. The federal government bagged $8.91 billion from telecoms from...

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...

Quebecor’s Freedom Mobile announced on Friday there’s a technical issue that’s preventing its customers from using partner networks right now. "Due to a technical problem at one of our connectivity providers, some customers attempting to use data may experience intermittent degraded service when outside Freedom's network footprint,” said Freedom Mobile on Friday morning. "We take...

Videotron’s Fizz has launched some new plans again, this time debuting new 50GB, 60GB and 80GB plans to the line up. It’s worth noting that for an extra $4/month, you can add on U.S. roaming for talk, text and data. So the $30/50GB plan becomes $34/50GB Canada-US, which matches a plan from Videotron’s sister company...

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...

Telus has been recognized by TIME Magazine and Statista in their inaugural list of the World's Most Sustainable Companies, ranking 21st out of 500 global companies. B.C.-based Telus was the second most sustainable Canadian company and the most sustainable telecom in Canada. Rogers and Bell were not part of the top 500 global companies list....

Freedom Mobile looks to be in the spirit of giving just ahead of the summer break, as some customers are getting a notification that they are lucky recipients of 30GB of free monthly U.S. data, talk and text. The text message sent out to select customers says, “big news!” And explains they have “gifted your...

Back in January, Bell and Best Buy announced a partnership where both companies would operate new Best Buy Express stores from rebranded The Source locations (owned by Bell). Today, the first Best Buy Express store has opened in Canada, taking place in B.C.’s Lower Mainland. According to Bell, the first location is at Guildford Town...

Eastlink announced the launch of its mobile service and the opening of a new store in Tracadie, New Brunswick. This latest expansion is part of Eastlink's ongoing plans to bring mobile service across Northern New Brunswick it said on Tuesday. "We've been working hard over the past couple of years to expand our mobile service...

Rogers has announced select Rogers TV packages now include Disney+ Standard with Ads at no extra cost. Disney+ Standard with Ads normally costs $7.99 per month and includes support for streaming on up to two devices with 1080p HD video quality. This Disney+ plan is now included with Ignite Internet and TV bundles, that start...

Some customers of Rogers-owned Fido are receiving an unexpected bonus of 10GB to 20GB of free monthly data after logging into their accounts. One Fido customer, "barkes99,” shared to RFD that upon logging into their Fido account from a desktop computer, a system message appeared granting an additional 10GB of free data to their plan....

Freedom Mobile has lowered the price of its home internet plans, initially launched in May. Back in May, promotional internet pricing was as follows for the first 12 months: 30 Mbps for $39 per month (regularly $45 per month) 100 Mbps for $60 per month (regularly $70 per month) 500 Mbps for $80 per month...