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Public Mobile. They're on Telus towers so coverage is great. https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/ab/plans/35for1GB-3Gspeed
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Bilirubin posted:Where can the best deals be had these days? You enter stasis until its Back to School season which is the only time of year the carriers compete.
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Feb 23, 2021 00:40
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Public looks very cool indeed, except for one thing: no international roaming. I suppose I could always buy a SIM when in Euroland I guess. Assuming we can ever travel again of course.shadow puppet of a posted:You enter stasis until its Back to School season which is the only time of year the carriers compete. Yeah that might be the best idea, especially given my older phone and the 5G rollout. First I will take these Public prices to haggle with retention and see what can do I guess.
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Feb 23, 2021 00:56
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I'm on a grandfathered PM plan which has something like 8.5GB (I am never close), unlimited US calling and ~600MB of US roaming (or something like that). And the US calling is US to Canada, not just Canada to US. Sucks that there is no other international roaming, but it's not a biggie for how rarely I leave NA anyhow.
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Feb 24, 2021 00:49
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Isn't it still cheaper to buy a month of us/eu service if you want roaming data than to use the cartel?
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Absolutely.
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Feb 24, 2021 23:16
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Is it just me or has cell service pricing gotten vastly more reasonable in the past couple of years? I’m sure we still suck internationally but I don’t have quite the same level of ire towards Robelus these days.
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Not on the low end. It's literally impossible to get a $10/gb ratio with prepay under $50. It's typically half that or worse, with Rogers being way, way worse ($60/1gb) The Public Mobile Plan was $120 every three months for 12gb, with discounts for referrals, autopay, and per year of service. At my current discount level it comes to $34/month (I need more referrals  ).And for their sin of benefitting the consumer, they were consigned to have only 3g data speed for new customers ever since. Rogers delenda est Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Feb 25, 2021 08:10
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Mister Facetious posted:Not on the low end. It's literally impossible to get a $10/gb ratio with prepay under $50. It's typically half that or worse, with Rogers being way, way worse ($60/1gb) Low end - the monthly charge is zero if you have shaw internet, but nevermind that bundling discount:  However I think the central thesis is wrong - mobile pricing still blows in Canada, we've just mostly aged into housing costs making mobile bills trivial in comparison.
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^ That still ends up being $45/3gb, and it's not prepaid. In fact, Shaw doesn't offer any prepaid plans.
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Feb 25, 2021 12:17
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Mister Facetious posted:^ That still ends up being $45/3gb, and it's not prepaid. In fact, Shaw doesn't offer any prepaid plans. Okay, well, these two are prepaid. Didn't bother looking at Freedom as I thought they'd killed it and rebranded to Shaw:  Confusingly, the second one says "3GB" when not expanded, so I believe it's 2 GB base + 1GB bonus... 
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Feb 25, 2021 12:35
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I used to have them, but I left because their coverage was so bad it would vary block to block. :-S Like, the service would literally fluctuate as I rode the bus, and I was only streaming 64kbps aac Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Feb 25, 2021 12:47
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I have the Shaw Gig+ or whatever so the 25Gig/unlimited for $25 is really tempting - is it worth jumping from Fido? Will my reception be totally horrible in suburban greater vancouver? I think I asked this before and it sounded underwhelming, maybe it has gotten better in.. the 2 weeks since last time but I totally forget 
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Feb 25, 2021 22:18
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priznat posted:I have the Shaw Gig+ or whatever so the 25Gig/unlimited for $25 is really tempting - is it worth jumping from Fido? Will my reception be totally horrible in suburban greater vancouver? Shaw bought Wind and if coverage is anything like it was when it was Wind I wouldn't do it. I couldn't get reception in any of the arenas, underground malls, or when I walked under a skytrain overpass. Dillbag fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Feb 26, 2021 00:46
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Dillbag posted:Shaw bought Wind and if coverage is anything like it was when it was Wind I wouldn't do it. I couldn't get reception in any of the arenas, underground malls, or when I walked under askytrain overpass. Yeah this. I would lose signal in supermarkets all the time. iirc Wind bought a chunk of the 600/700mhz spectrum, which T-Mobile is using for low-band 5G, so maybe their service has/will get better, but who knows. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Feb 26, 2021 00:56
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Freedom post Wind branding running on band 66 on an iPhone has been very good to very suburban me. Not that I'd get enough calls to notice them not coming in, nor do I livestream from culverts and catacombs.
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Mister Facetious posted:Not on the low end. It's literally impossible to get a $10/gb ratio with prepay under $50. It's typically half that or worse, with Rogers being way, way worse ($60/1gb) You can with fizz, you just have to lie about your address if you're not in Quebec or Ottawa.
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Kijiji gem
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I don't know if they still do it, but buying phones directly from Wind would usually have an extra $100 tacked onto MSRP, while still only offering black.
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Mister Facetious posted:I don't know if they still do it, but buying phones directly from Wind would usually have an extra $100 tacked onto MSRP, while still only offering black. look, we need one Black-positive place in Canada okay
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Mister Facetious posted:I don't know if they still do it, but buying phones directly from Wind would usually have an extra $100 tacked onto MSRP, while still only offering black. Now they’re just pandering to Justin Trudeau.
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My curiosity won out and I ordered the Shaw SIMs and just am trying it out now in the tricities near Vancouver (da burbs). So far at my house it’s not great, getting 1-2 LTE bars dropping to 3G and not even able to use the speedtest app when wifi is disabled. Will see what it’s like when out in the park (the main place I go that isn’t covered by wifi) and if it sucks either wait for Fido to try to woo me back (they apparently do that I’ve read) or check out rogers/telus options. No big deal it was worth a try and I had really needed to improve my plan for a bit now so even if shaw isn’t the answer I had to see if it’d work for me.
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Mar 3, 2021 07:57
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Shaw wireless update after a few days of use: I actually quite like it, with data being totally fine in the places I've gone - admittedly not too many in pandemic times, but even normally I don't go many spots. I'm going to keep it. Added visual voicemail for +$4. My house area is pretty much where it is the worst I find, ironically, which isn't a big deal because of the wifi calling anyway. The local large park I go to walk the dogs gets very good reception and I was able to get over 7Mbit using speedtest. Fido sent me an email a couple days after the switch saying to expect a call but I have all unknown callers silenced anyway and it doesn't seem to do caller ID correctly right now even though it should be supported. Probably will have to talk to Shaw support about that but I kind of prefer just having all calls silenced and straight to voicemail anyway
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Canadian Cellular: Visual Voicemail Is Down To $4 Now!
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I don't know what visual voicemail even is. I am a bad phone customer.
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Mar 7, 2021 21:34
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Looks like it’s still $5 on Telus. Also it’s a feature that lets you listen to voicemail with an app like interface and tapping on an audio message, instead of dialling a voicemail system like it’s the early 2000s again. It’s really, really stupid that this is a pay feature in 2021.
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Yep it's pretty ridiculous. Buuuut I do love the transcribe so I don't even have to listen to a potential spam call voicemail.
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Imagine leaving a voicemail instead of hanging up and texting. In fact, forget the call all together. Might as well send a loving fax while we're at it.
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Cocaine Bear posted:Imagine leaving a voicemail instead of hanging up and texting. In fact, forget the call all together. Might as well send a loving fax while we're at it. Ooh, visual faxes are only $7 now. 
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I thought visual voicemail was a service on the old Vista 350 that Bell sent to everyone way back when they wanted you to shop for oil changes and Florida vacations via the Gameboy screen 90's Bell understanding of the in-home Information Superhighway. Visual voicemail meant that its would say "One Voicemail" on your screen rather than loving with your dialtone 
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Rogers is buying Shaw. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-signs-deal-buy-shaw-1.5949825
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On the bright side, maybe Wind's coverage won't be poo poo now. 
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Haha like they care about the low end brands.
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You mean dodging the big 3 (who are actually 4) had become harder now there are only three options?
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Maybe the telco competition board wi-ahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahhahhhhooohoohohoohohoho-wipes tear from eye - roll over and approve it instantly.
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Stock market seems fairly skeptical about the odds of it going through, announced with buyout price of a bit more than 40/share, currently trading at 32 - about half the difference.
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Sassafras posted:Stock market seems fairly skeptical about the odds of it going through, announced with buyout price of a bit more than 40/share, currently trading at 32 - about half the difference. "If only the investors knew you the way Canadians do, - Raiders of the Lost Market Competition Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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lmao so Bell dropped my monthly mobility bill by $20 per month and increased my data from 500Meg to 5Gig. Today was the day of plan change and instead they appear to have made it impossible to connect to wireless data FML Their customer service folks are a dumb as a bag of hammers
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Bilirubin posted:lmao so Bell dropped my monthly mobility bill by $20 per month and increased my data from 500Meg to 5Gig. Today was the day of plan change and instead they appear to have made it impossible to connect to wireless data FML Make sure you restart your phone after plan changes on the "server side".
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WienerDog posted:Make sure you restart your phone after plan changes on the "server side". Do you work for Bell? Sorry, that came out snarky. Let me try again. If after restarting my phone 10 times on two different APNs what do
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