Carriers

Rogers has announced today the launch of their LTE network in two more cities: Calgary and Halifax, as noted on their Redboard: Our LTE network is available in select Canadian cities and now reaches close to 12 million or one third of the Canadian population. It will expand to nearly 60 per cent of Canadians...

The Rick Mercer Report has some of the funniest spoofs, and the latest one is just pure gold. It involves our favourite wireless carriers, Rogers and Bell as part of the new dating service called 'Conglomermate'. I'm not going to say anything more--just watch the video below: Previously, we've seen the RMR break down the...

Telus has introduced a new trade-in program to allow customers to get instant in-store credit for bringing in their used cellphones, in a partnership with eRecyclingCorps: Working in collaboration with eRecyclingCorps (eRC), TELUS is making its trade-in program available to all TELUS customers, both new and existing. As of today, customers can simply present their...

In an effort to make cellphone towers blend into their environment, Bell plans to build 20 towers disguised as pine trees in Muskoka, north of Toronto. The steel towers would be 25-29 metres tall and rise up above existing trees, covered with fibreglass branches, and set to be installed in May. Since they will be built...

Yesterday and today Rogers tested out some 'Sponsored Tweets' on twitter, to promote their new service Rogers One Number, which we've reviewed previously. The new service is actually pretty cool, but when it came to this twitter ad campaign, customers turned the other way. When the @RogersBuzz sent out the tweet, customers started using the...

Yesterday the Federal Government announced changes to foreign ownership rules of telecoms in Canada and noted details about the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. Feedback to the news has been mixed from newer entrants such as Wind and Mobilicity. Wind Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera thinks the rules don't really change anything, but continue to protect the...

Fido has modified their $50 Canada-wide talk and text plans to allow for three year terms, instead of just two, as of March 9th, 2012. This means those signing up for three year plans for a maximum hardware subsidy will now be eligible for this plan. It is available for new and existing customers. Here's...

Bell has announced their Mobile TV arm will now include Whitecaps FC games, to kick off the 2012 MLS season, which has the Montreal Impact visiting BC Place tomorrow: "As Premier Founding Partner, Bell is proud to offer Vancouver Whitecaps FC fans access to their favourite team on our innovative and industry-leading Bell Mobile TV...

Koodo (Telus) has numerous iPhone users on their network as tethering is available with plans, but the only feature missing being Visual Voicemail support (which is apparently coming soon). Now, the company has released a Canada-Wide $50 voice and data plan which includes: 150 daytime minutes Canada-wide 1GB data Caller ID, Voicemail 7pm unlimited evenings/weekends...

Just the other day Telus launched some new promotional plans that included caller ID and voicemail. Now, Bell has countered back by introducing a $5 promo for Caller ID and Message Centre (Bell's voicemail service), typically part of a more expensive $12 value pack. This add on will be available to all Fab 10 plans,...

Rumours are flying that Apple will unveil its latest mobile devices this year, supporting 4G/LTE networks. With competing devices on the market already supporting this new, faster technology, it seems highly likely that Apple would want to have the iPhone and the iPad on these faster networks. Canada Newswire posted today, that Telus Communications is...

Telus has updated their Promotional Plans page with new plans that include Caller ID and Voicemail. We've summarized them for you. All plans include the following: Unlimited Nationwide Family Calling Unlimited 6PM evenings and weekends Unlimited SMS/MMS Unlimited My10 Nationwide 200 daytime minutes Caller ID/Voicemail Call waiting/3 way call First month free calling Each plan...