Carriers

Rogers has announced their 2012 Q2 earnings this morning. Their numbers beat some analyst expectations and generated $3.106 billion in revenue and $1.276 billion in operating profit, both slight increases compared to the year ago quarter. As for wireless activations, Rogers noted they activated and upgraded 629,000 smartphone subscribers, one of their highest numbers in...

Don't you love the Canadian wireless 'tango'? 6GB data plans seem to be quite popular the last week as earlier today Koodo released a $60/month plan, and now Telus has released a similar plan for its users. As noted on the Telus homepage, the $65/month 'Promo Voice and Data 65' plan includes the following: 200...

More 6GB voice and data plan deals are coming your way, and this time it's from the sub-brand of Telus, Koodo (which just recently offered iPhone unlocking). They plan on introducing the 'Canada-Wide Super 6GB' plan for $60/month starting next week until August 6th, reports MobileSyrup. The plan will include: 250 Canada Wide minutes 5PM...

With iOS 6 to introduce FaceTime over 3G as a standard feature for the first time, many wireless users in Canada are under the assumption the feature will be allowed, just like tethering via the Personal Hotspot feature. However, with stories of AT&T possibly charging customers for the use of cellular data for FaceTime, what...

Telus introduced an unlocking policy for iPhones on June 1st (here's how the process works), and now they have offered the service to its customers on their Koodo brand for $50, reports MobileSyrup. Essentially the requirements are the same for Koodo customers (as they were for Telus): The iPhone must operate on the Koodo network. Client must have...

Hot on the heels of Rogers introducing their '6GB Super Plan', we've received a tip from a reliable source Virgin plans to do the same. An internal doc states the following 6GB voice and data plan for $60: 300 daytime minutes 5pm evenings/weekends Unlimited incoming calls Unlimited text and picture messaging 6GB data plan $60/month;...

A while back we confirmed Rogers had brought back the 6GB/$30 data plan, only available to those that called in and gave a SOC code to customer service agents. Just today, the company has launched the plan again as part of the new '6GB Super Plan', as noted on the Rogers website. The site link...

With the London 2012 Olympics set to kick off on July 27th, it looks like this will be one of the most-connected Olympic games ever. You will soon be able to catch all the action via the free CTV Olympics London 2012 apps, set to be released soon, as announced by CTV: There are two...

It was reported yesterday on MacRumors when users in the U.S. on AT&T tried to activate FaceTime over 3G on iOS 6 beta 3, they were prompted with a pop up alert to contact the carrier for more information. In other words, it translates to "we are not going to allow this feature at this time"....

Looks like a native 'Your Account' iPhone app is coming for Telus customers, according to screenshots posted over at MobileSyrup. Back in June of 2010, we noted Telus had launched a similar account management service but it was web-based. According to the screenshots below, the Telus app will be quite similar to the 'My Account'...

A while back we noted Rogers had reintroduced the coveted LTE/3G 6GB/$30 data plan for customers via calling in to customer service and asking reps to enter a specific SOC code. Now, it appears Telus has done the same, according to this thread over at RedFlagDeals. All you have to do is call in to customer...

The Rogers Redboard announced this morning the full list of cities and area set to be included in the developing expansion of their LTE network. A total of 28 cities will get LTE in 2012, on top of the existing 7 markets where the new high speed network is already in place. Just over a...