Carriers

The Shaw.ca website has officially been shut down and folded into Rogers.com, marking another step in Rogers' full takeover of Shaw after their merger in April 2023. One year after the merger, Rogers said it expanded 5G to over 150 communities, added high-speed internet to 90,000 more homes, and moved Shaw Mobile customers over to...

Leading into the Canada Day long weekend, Telus-owned Public Mobile is offering up a $35/75GB Canada-US-Mexico plan to existing customers via text message. The 5G plan includes 1,000 international long distance minutes and allows you to use your talk, text and data in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Customers receiving the text message need to...

PC Mobile, which is owned by Loblaw and runs on Bell’s wireless network, has launched a “Canada Day Flash Sale”, offering up a $29 per month plan with 30GB of data. The plan is available for $29 for 12 months after setting up auto top up. You also get 30,000 PC Optimum points with the...

Telus-owned Public Mobile has added a note to select 5G plans to note they are coming to end soon. It seems like we continue to see end dates for promo pricing when it comes to Canada-US-Mexico plans. Yesterday, Public Mobile added “limited time” labels to select 5G plans. Check them out below: $32/20GB (Canada-wide) $34/10GB...

After Rogers launched a Canada Day promo plan with 158GB of data (to match Canada’s upcoming 158th birthday), Bell has now come out with the same plan. Bell’s matching offer is their Ultimate 100 plan, which is $65 per month with 100GB of data. But a 58GB bonus takes it to 158GB total data at...

Canada’s first wireless phone call took place 40 years ago on July 1, 1985, at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. Then-mayor Art Eggleton used a 10-pound mobile phone to call Montreal’s mayor, Jean Drapeau. The call was made possible by Ted Rogers, the founder of Rogers, who invested early in the mobile technology. Today, Rogers...

Telus is calling out rivals Bell and Rogers for what it describes as anti-competitive behaviour that’s hurting consumers and limiting competition in Canada’s telecom and TV markets. At the ongoing CRTC hearings today, June 26, Telus said the Canadian broadcasting market has changed dramatically, especially since Rogers acquired Shaw and a new wholesale internet framework...

Telus has been ranked the most sustainable telecommunications company in North America by TIME Magazine and Statista. The recognition comes from the 2025 World's Most Sustainable Companies list, which highlights 500 companies globally out of more than 5,000 reviewed. Telus ranked 83rd on the list. American telecoms such as AT&T ranked 471, T-Mobile at 304...

Rogers recently launched a new promo plan leveraging Canada Day celebrations, offering 158GB of data, matching our nation’s birthdays. The Canada Day Offer is the company’s Essentials 5G+ plan for new activations, which is priced at $65 per month after auto-pay and bring your own device. It includes data speeds of up to 250 Mbps...

Eastlink says it’s being pushed out of the market by Canada's biggest telecom companies and wants new rules to protect smaller providers like itself. Speaking at a CRTC public hearing today, the company warned that high content fees and unfair negotiations with vertically integrated media giants—such as Rogers and Bell—are making it harder for them...

Earlier today there was a short Rogers outage that affected many customers nationwide, according to reports online from customers and third-party tracking sites like Downdetector. Many customers said signals just disappeared and iPhones started to show SOS (those that support Apple's Emergency SOS via Satellite). The Rogers outage affected cellphone and internet services. Many were...

Telus is blaming one of its own for a days-long 911 outage in Brandon, Manitoba, that left emergency calls from cell phones unanswered for nearly two days in March. The CRTC formally requested that Telus provide a plain-language summary of the 911 outage that occurred in Brandon, Manitoba, from March 22 to 24, 2025. In...