Carriers

Today, Virgin Mobile announced massive price reductions for their International and US Data Roaming charges. If you are currently a Virgin Mobile customer, you should be thrilled with these price reductions. The US Data Roaming rate is being lowered from $51.20/MB to $10.24/MB. The International Data Roaming rate is being lowered from $51.20/MB to $25.60/MB....

This week, Rogers Wireless has reintroduced their famous $30 6GB data plan, but only for Business Corporate customers. In other words, your account must have a MSD company code on it and the account type must be "Business Corporate" to qualify. Details of Data Plans The data add-ons are standalone Non-poolable options Any data options...

This week, in response to Bell, Telus has launched their no activation fee promotion and is waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. The company is also offering free 6PM early evenings. The promotions are effective March 10, 2011. Eligibility & Restrictions The offers are applicable...

In November 2010, Telus introduced “Flex Data” to its existing iPhone plans. Then Telus expanded the Flex Data to their, at the time, Student 55 iPhone plan. Eventually the student plan expired and Telus then reintroduced the plan but for $5.00 more at $60/month instead of $55. That $60 plan expired on March 1, 2011....

In a new promotion this week, Bell has launched an activation fee waiver promotion and is waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans: Talk and More Plans Smartphone plans...

Telus was first out of the gate to rebrand its wireless network as "4G". This was then followed by Bell, Videotron, and now SaskTel and MTS. We've seen a lot of this 4G rebranding recently because the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standards gives carrier authority to market their network a certain way. In this case,...

Update: the image has been removed from the Rogers website. The Rogers website has various images of Apple products, such as iPads and iPhones. However, on their Internet page, there is an image of an Apple iMac that has a missing Apple logo on the front--but poorly removed. First spotted by our very own Ex...

Last November, Telus introduced a new upgrade policy that enabled Telus customers to renew their contract early and get a new device earlier than normal, but pay a fee for the convenience. Normally, Telus customers must wait until the end of their current contract term to receive promotional pricing on a handset renewal/upgrade. After the...

In the beginning of February this year, Fido indicated it was making some huge changes to their prepaid CityFido plan on March 6, 2011. This week, the company made good on its promise and has decreased the prepaid CityFido fee by $5.00 and added 1,000 more minutes, making the new total 2,000 minutes per month....

iOS 4.3 isn't arriving until next week on March 11th, but it appears replacement iPhone 4 units have already started to come shipped with the latest iOS. iPhoneinCanada.ca reader Arif emailed us that his replacement iPhone 4 from Fido came with iOS 4.3 pre-installed. He also mentioned Personal Hotspot works great on Fido. Currently, the...

Update: Rogers contacted us to say this forwarding has stopped. Let us know if you see these changes. We just got a tip about a weird change to the way Rogers handles 404 errors over the 3G network. If you're in Mobile Safari and visit a webpage that is down, you'll get the following message:...

Update 1: More info via this CTV news article. Looks like Telus cut her off, then she called to get it turned back on. Ouch. But Telus spokesman Shawn Hall says that the phone company noticed a spike in Fero's data use almost immediately after she left Canada. The company cut off her service, and...