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Fido iPhone 14 Deal: $7/month Upgrade for Some Customers
If you’re a Fido customer, you may want to check your account for a special deal on Apple’s iPhone 14 from last year. Some customers are seeing an “exclusive savings” offer in their accounts, which is the 256GB iPhone 14 available for just $7.77/month with Fido financing over 24 months. That works out to $186.48,...
Rogers and Fido Price Increase: Connection Fee Now $70
Rogers and Fido have increase the price of its one-time connection fee, now at $70 when you activate a phone or line that involves a customer service agent. This price increase for the connection fee comes after it was increased to $60 in June 2023, so just over one year later. In July 2021, the...
Virgin Plus Finally Matches All Plans from Fido and Koodo
Last week, Bell’s Virgin Plus tweaked its plans and pricing to almost match rivals Fido (Rogers) and Koodo (Telus), but now we’re seeing the same plans across the board, as expected (finally). Here are Virgin Plus’ current plans for bring your own device: $39/20GB $44/40GB $49/60GB (after $5 off for 24 months) $65/75GB 5G The...
Rogers ‘Winback’ Deals Reportedly Offer $35/75GB, $29/50GB Plans
If you recently ditched Rogers and switched to another wireless carrier, you may want to consider answering calls from the company’s ‘winback’ department, which offers exclusive sweetheart deals to bring you back to the company. The latest offers we’re seeing are reportedly in the form of a $35/75GB 5G plan from Rogers, along with $29/50GB...
Telus Increases Price of All 5G+ Unlimited Plans
Telus had some “promotional” plans that were set to end of July 14, and as of today, the company has increased the price of its premium 5G+ plans, which have the fastest download speeds of up to 2 Gbps. Check out the changes below: $35 talk and text $65/75GB (new activations only) - 5G Essential...
Latest Rogers Ad Features John Krasinski Dancing to Taylor Swift [VIDEO]
Rogers has shared a new TV ad coming your way, featuring American actor John Krasinski (known from The Office) lip syncing and dancing to “Shake It Off (Taylor’s Version)” from Taylor Swift, while he’s on a boat on Lake Simcoe in Ontario. The cringey ad shows Krasinski showing off his dance moves on a boat, thinking...
Fido Increases Wireless Prices, Following Virgin Plus and Koodo
Last week, Public Mobile and Fido noted July 8th as an end date for select promo plans, hinting new plans were coming. We just saw Telus-owned Public Mobile reduce the data for its $29/month 4G plan, while introducing some other options with smaller data buckets. Now, as expected, Fido has switched up its plans as...
CRTC Report Explains the ‘Catastrophic’ Rogers Outage from 2022 [Update]
The CRTC has released its commissioned report by Xona Partners that has summarized the “catastrophic" 2022 Rogers outage that affected both wireless and wireline services that impacted over 12 million personal and business customers, that lasted over 26 hours, before services started to be restored. "In this report we detail the findings for the period...
Public Mobile and Fido to End Select Promo Plans on July 8
It looks like flanker brands of Telus and Rogers are set to end some promotional plans next week, possibly setting the stage for new plans heading into the heart of summer (for better or worse). Telus-owned Public Mobile has updated its website to indicate its promotional $29/40GB 4G plan will end on July 8, 2024....
Rogers Tops Telus and Bell in Latest Internet Rankings: Opensignal
Rogers has emerged as the top broadband provider in Canada, according to a recent Opensignal report that has published new data. Opensignal told iPhone in Canada Rogers now leads for ‘Reliability Experience,’ what it says is a new metric that measures the ability of Opensignal users to connect and complete ‘uninterrupted’ tasks on internet networks....
Rogers Completes 5G Cloud RAN Trial at Blue Jays Game
Rogers says it has successfully conducted Canada's first commercial trial of Ericsson's 5G Cloud-Radio Access Network (Cloud RAN) technology at a nearly sold-out Toronto Blue Jays game on Canada Day. This technology builds on Rogers' standalone 5G core network launched in 2021. “Cloud-native technology is a critical component in the next generation of wireless networks...
Bell Seeks Injunction to Block Rogers from Warner Bros. Content
Bell Media has filed for an injunction to prevent Rogers from broadcasting Warner Bros. Discovery content for two years. This move comes as Rogers is set to take over the Canadian rights to that programming in January 2025. Bell submitted a court application on June 19, claiming that the licensing agreement announced nine days earlier...