Wind actually does offer pretty competitive plans, but the trouble is that since they use different spectrum from what iPhones support, you have to use another OS.
Grant On 12/11/12, Marco Migotti <[email protected]> wrote: > I pay around 86 dollars which includes unlimited messaging, 200 day minutes > and unlimited evening and weekends plus about an hour of voice roaming > throughout Canada. > > I thought that wind mobile was suppose to bring prices down for us > Canadians, but I guess they have discovered just how nice it is to fleese > the Canadian consumer knowing that we have no choice but to use them if we > want to have mobile communications. > > > > Marco > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: December-11-12 10:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Great plan special for Canadians with Koodo or Fido > > > > 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. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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