Rogers

Effective today, and expiring on March 31, 2010, Rogers has released a new $25 student plan that targets individuals who do much more text messaging than calling. The new plan primarily features unlimited text messaging (not video or photo) and evenings start at 6PM for free (usually $7). New $25 Student Plan: Daytime: 50 minutes...

In the beginning of February, Rogers released a series of new price plans for both existing and new customers. Today, the company has modified some of those new plans to include newer and better features. One of the more negative changes made at the beginning of February was made to the $50 Voice and Data...

Effective today, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation waiver promotion and are continuing to waive 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: Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature”...

Sometime this week, Apple and the Canadian wireless carriers increased the 3G file size limit for App Store downloads up to 20MB. Previously, when users were connected to 3G, they could only download apps that were up to 10MB in size. Anything greater than 10MB needed a WiFi connection. The new limit is now 20MB...

Effective February 11, 2010, Rogers and Fido are 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: Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature” plans: Unlimited Network Calling, MY5, Double Your...

Today, Rogers and Fido released new plans and as compared to the last quarter plans, and even beyond that, the new Rogers plans especially are by far the worst they have ever done. New Rogers Plans 1.) $30, $35, $40, and $45 consumer plans received "unlimited mobile browsing" as an option add-on. (not compatible with...

The middle of December 2009 concluded what was expected to be the final round of Rogers/Fido local calling area reductions. Wrong. Effective March 15, 2010, Rogers/Fido are further reducing Local Calling Areas across Canada. What does this mean? Local Calling Areas (LCA) are invisible geographic boundaries that determine which calls are billed as local calls...

Effective February 9, 2010 , Rogers will no longer be offering "Freedom of Speech" (FOS) on any term plans. This means that any customers activating on any monthly, 1, 2 or 3-year term service agreement on or after February 9, 2010 will no longer receive one month of unlimited local calling. Prior to February 9,...

SIM Cards, or Subscriber Identification Modules, are the small smart cards that sit inside our iPhones and give us our connection to the cellular network. SIM Cards also come free with a phone/device purchase. Normally SIM cards have a long life, usually in excess of five years, but sometimes they "burn out" or are defective....

Rogers has launched two new North American (US/Canada) Data add-ons. The new data add-ons allow customers to use the available data anywhere in Canada or the USA. In other words, you can use the data add-on in the USA without any additional data roaming fees. The new data add-ons start at $35/month and also have...

Effective January 28, 2010 (but in full deployment as of February 2), Rogers/Fido have improved their WhoCalled mobile add-on feature. WhoCalled has received mixed reviews from customers in that some love it and some hate it, but for those that don't know what the feature is, I'll briefly explain. WhoCalled is a feature that alerts...

In a rare move, Rogers has changed their upgrade policy...for the better! It is now faster and cheaper to get a new device through the upgrade changes. The new Rogers upgrade policy now states that Rogers customers will now be eligible for the same pricing as new customers on all devices on or after the...