Carriers

Potential (or current) Telus iPhone owners can continue to take advantage of the $55 Telus student plan until November 30, 2010! The plan originally expired on November 14. The plan is one of the better student packages available among the Canadian wireless carriers (the lesser of evils), mostly because of the inclusion of my10 Canada-wide...

Effective today, Fido has revised their two existing CityFido Plans. Previously, when subscribed to a CityFido Plan, users could only use their minutes within their CityFido Zone, which was one of the following cities: Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Ottawa, Montreal or Quebec. Using minutes outside of your zone meant paying a per...

With Holiday 2010 approaching, the Canadian wireless carriers are beginning to update their plans and offer additional features. For Q4 2010, Telus has reworked some of their iPhone plans to include more minutes and a new flex data option. Bonus Minutes For Q4 2010, Telus has added the bonus minutes from all iPhone plans into...

Last week, Rogers decided to give us some bad news and push their hardware upgrade (HUP) eligibility to 30 months (this affected every phone except iPhones until December 2010). In other words, customers would be eligible for new device (promotional) pricing at month 30 since their initial activation or upgrade. With the 30-month change, customers...

Effective November 2 2010, Fido is extending its free activation fee ($35) until February 7 2011. The current $35 activation fee credit promo expires on November 1, 2010. In other words, the promo ends and then immediately starts again. For all you new prospective Fido customers that want an iPhone 4, you won't be paying...

Rogers really had me fooled for a while. For about the last 12 months, they have managed to stay out of the negative light and basically stopped changing their policies for the worse. Well, I guess they just couldn't wait any longer to make some horrible changes. Effective today, Rogers is changing their hardware upgrade...

This week, Rogers let us know about their ambitions to begin the first LTE technical trial in Canada. LTE, or Long Term Evolution, is essentially the term for "4G" network that people loosely throw around. LTE is essentially supposed to deliver a theoretical high speed network of up to 150Mbps. The first trial by Rogers...

The Rogers network contacted us yesterday about their ambitions to begin the first LTE technical trial in Canada, which will take place in Ottawa. Why Ottawa? That's because Rogers is teaming up with Ericsson Canada at their R&D facilities. We've had some discussion about LTE before. Here's some info from the Rogers Redboard: What is...

We just got an email from Rogers that they have extended their 6GB/$30 "promotional" data plan past the September 30th expiration date. You can now order this plan all the way till October 5th. There is also an update on iPhone 4 HUP news too. Read here for more info: When Rogers/Fido launched the iPhone...

This week, Bell Mobility is attempting the almost impossible. The Canadian wireless company has a new offer for a "refreshed" 8GB iPhone that is $9.95 and that comes with a free Apple Dock ($35 value) on a 3-year voice and data agreement. The iPhone in question is the iPhone 3G. This is obviously an attempt...

This past summer, and what seems to be a recurring promotion each year, Rogers/Fido released their amazing $30 6GB data plan. Rogers/Fido typically release this data plan when a new iPhone comes out and this has been the trend since summer 2008. However, as summer comes to an end, so does this promotion. Effective September...

At first I thought I was going crazy. That was until I started receiving numerous tweets from you guys about the recent slowdowns to 3G speeds on the Rogers network. The 3G speeds on my iPhone 4 are usually blazing fast. However, the past couple days everything has slowed down to a snail's pace. We...