Carriers

Telus-owned Public Mobile continues to tweak its plans ahead of the back to school season. Today it increased the price of one of its 4G plans. Here are the Public Mobile plans as of July 21, 2026: $22 talk and text $24/5GB $28/10GB (was $26) $30/35GB As you can see, the 10GB plan has increased...

Public Mobile is offering select prepaid customers an exclusive deal to switch over to sister company Koodo, and go with postpaid service. According to an email obtained by iPhone in Canada, eligible Public Mobile customers can switch to Koodo and get a plan with 150 GB of data for $40 per month, which is after...

A retired Rogers insider is asking the CRTC to ban advance billing, the practice that has nearly every Canadian paying for phone, internet and TV service 30 days before using it, according to the Toronto Star. Stephen Lawton, 74, spent 18 years as a senior adviser in the office of the president at Rogers, sitting...

Sponsored: Presented in partnership with Bell Canada. Back-to-school season looks different for every household. One child may be starting high school, another heading off to college or university, while parents balance new schedules, activities and responsibilities. With so much change at once, wireless needs can vary significantly from one family member to another. Bell's back-to-school...

Bell announced Monday that Rohde & Schwarz SwissQual AG, an independent network testing firm based in Switzerland, has ranked its 5G+ network the fastest in Canada. The telecom placed first in two of the firm's categories, Fastest 5G+ Network Data Speed Performance Score and Fastest 5G Network Data Speed Score, based on drive testing across...

Freedom Mobile has launched a new campaign targeting Canada's major telecom carriers, accusing Rogers, Bell, and Telus of finding ways to charge subscribers extra despite recent regulatory changes. The carrier launched a dedicated campaign page on its website asking, "What The Fees?", to call out its incumbent competitors directly. Freedom Mobile said that when the...

The CRTC has tossed out a complaint from Bell accusing Videotron of abusing its access to Bell's wireless network, ending a dispute that's been dragging on for years. At the heart of the July 17 decision is wholesale roaming, the arrangement that lets smaller carriers put their customers onto a bigger carrier's network when they...

A B.C. woman is warning wireless customers across Canada after a well-coordinated delivery scam left her without her new phone and stuck with hundreds of dollars in charges, according to a report by Global News. Shamim Rahimi ordered a new device and added a line through her official Rogers app earlier this year. A real...

Rogers is laying off front-line customer service agents, according to a CBC Go Public report, at the same time the company confirmed 230 job cuts in its sports and media division last week. Rogers has not said how many customer service jobs are affected. Spokesperson Zac Carreiro described the cuts to CBC as a "small...

Rogers-owned Chatr has just made some major changes to its top-end prepaid plans, reducing data by quite a bit. The changes come after we recapped prepaid plans in Canada yesterday for July. Here are changes made today by Chatr on its website we spotted: $19/500MB $21/1GB $25/5GB $30/15GB (was $29/35GB) $35/30GB (was $34/80GB) $100/year: 400...

Bell has finished constructing its first direct-to-device satellite ground station in Québec. This new facility is a big step to providing mobile coverage to Canadians in areas well beyond the reach of traditional cell towers. The ground station is designed to connect with AST SpaceMobile’s satellite constellation. Once the system is fully operational, it will...

We're well into July so let's take a look at prepaid plans from the Big 3, compared to prices in June. Public Mobile (Telus), Lucky Mobile (Bell), Chatr (Rogers) and Fizz (Quebecor) have all made changes to their prepaid plans. Here are the changes to prepaid plans in Canada for July 2026: Public Mobile $35/50GB...