Just to add, the identical $56 plan is available at Fido and Virgin Mobile Canada. Also to make sure people are aware, this is _not_ a plan which is eligible for a full subsidy on an iPhone. As Sieghard mentioned you'll have to pay a lot more money up front, or have an unlocked iPhone already. Unlocking policies vary from carrier to carrier. Telus' is the best, it is $35 and you simply have to have the phone registered on your account for 90 days. Rogers and Fido charge $50 and your subsidy must have been fully repaid. Bell's unlocking policy is the least economical, at $70, and is also unclear--it mentions that you have to be month to month, but it doesn't mention whether, say, the iPhone could have been activated on another person's account and with subsidy still owing.
Grant On 12/11/12, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello fellow Canadians, > > > > I just wanted to pass this along since I was told about it yesterday and > just changed my plan. Here are the 3 scenarios under which you can take > advantage of this: > > > > 1. You have to be an existing customer of Fido (which belongs to > Rogers) or Koodo (which belongs to Telus). > > > > 2. If you are not an existing customer and want to switch you have to > make sure you are not under contract any more with your previous provider > and, of course, your iPhone has to be unlocked. If you have an iPhone and > have fulfilled your contract you can officially request unlock instructions > and once you are unlocked you can go where you please. > > > > 3. If you want to switch to Koodo or Fido as a new customer and buy > an > iPhone from them you can do this. I am not sure about Fido, but Koodo will > not lock you into a plan, however, they won't give you quite as good a deal > on the phone, either. If you are a new customer, they will give you $150 > off > your phone. This means that for an iPhone 5 16 Gig which costs $670 here in > Canada, you would pay $520. If you sign up for a 3-year contract with Telus > you can get the same phone for $199 I believe, but then you are locked in > for 3 years. With Koodo once you have a plan, 10% of your plan cost every > month is applied to what they call your "Tab". The $150 they give you up > front and if you were to cancel your service with them after a few month > you > would have to pay out whatever balance is left from the $150 less the > portion that was applied to that from your tab. If you bring your own phone > to them, then 10% each month are accumulated and if you want to buy a new > phone let's say in a year, you have whatever that balance is available. > > > > Anyhow, I don't want to get into this any further, what I really wanted to > let everybody know is the promotion they have right now. > > > > You get unlimited Canada wide calling any time (long distance and airtime), > unlimited texting, call display, voice mail and 2 Gigabytes of data for $56 > a month + tax. > > This is a super deal, I was a Koodo customer before and paid $55 just for > the unlimited calling, texting, call display and voice mail. I then had a > data flex plan which depending on how much I used (I don't use very much0) > cost me another $10 or $15 a month which means my total bill was usually > $65 > or $70 a month. Now I get everything I had before + 2 Gig of data for $1 > more than I paid before for just the voice plan. I save $9 or $14 a months > and had I actually used close to 2 Gigs of data on the plan I had I would > have paid $30 more than what I am now paying on this promo. > > > > I heard Fido is offering the same for $54 or $55 so even a Dollar or 2 > less. > > > > I am not sure what Telus, Bell and Rogers are currently offering, but I > used > to be with Telus and always paid $70 or $75 and I didn't have the unlimited > calling/airtime so I always had to think whether the call I was about to > make was covered under the plan I had with Favourite Numbers, Free > Evening/Weekend Air Time, a certain number of daytime airtime minutes, 100 > long distance minutes etc. I like the fact that with Koodo it doesn't > matter > if I call during the day or on a weekend, whether it's local or long > distance or whether I am in my local area or not. As long as I am in Canada > it makes no difference and while I think it's not truly unlimited, I have > never used it all up. > > > > > > Regards, > > Sieghard > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
