TELUS alters monthly price plans as Canada enters the era of two-year commitments

[!MiKrofT]

Originally Posted by GLOW

i wonder how this will affect corporate plans?

They'll go up as well. Not sure how much though.

[BaoTurbo]

The thing I'm worried about now is that everyone is stuck on their grandfather plan after the end of this year. Reason why is because your plan is actually now much cheaper than the in market plans even if you don't like it. But wait, you can probably talk to retentions right? No, because retentions will just compare to what the market has which is already 10x worse than yours so you won't get anything better. Thats what I speculate

[yogenfruz]

^ Once my plan with Telus is up, I'm thinking of switching to Wind, Fido, or Koodo. How did you find Wind, and how much better is Fido?

Checked out the price for essentially the same plan I have now with Telus under their new plan system: 85$/month vs my current 60$/month....

[BaoTurbo]

Wind runs on AWS. You won't get anything higher than 3G coverage. And so are their phones because they run on a much weaker spectrum frequency. I have a friend who has a Note 2 from Wind and used it on Koodo, he only got HSPA+ which is 4G rather than LTE. Also network coverage isn't that stable but $40/month unlimited everything. You go figure. But with that price no one can argue

Fido is decent with Fido dollars which is somewhat a bonus. Fido plans and coverage are whatever the subsidy market has. So they copy what Koodo and Virgin has and so do they are pretty similar.

[Geoc]

i currently have a 3 year contract, does that mean I am not eligible to renew the terms of my contract for a additional 2 years?

[Derek128]

I have been using Wind since End of 2011........
I'm very happy I'm done with Roger/Bell/Telus


Holiday Miracle Plan
40.00 month

Unlimited Features: (from anywhere on our network)
Canada-wide calling
All incoming calls
Incoming/Outgoing Text (CA/US)
WIND to WIND calling across Canada
US Long Distance Calling
Incoming/Outgoing Global Text
Incoming/Outgoing Picture Messaging (CA/US)
Infinite BlackBerry/Infinite Mobile Data Service
Included Features:
Call Control (Caller ID, missed-call alerts, call forward, call conferencing, call waiting, call hold)

Voicemail

[shenmecar]

Originally Posted by inv4zn

I thought CRTC made it so that carriers can't charge cancellation fee after 2 years out of a 3 year contract.

Nowhere can I find something that says they banned 3 year contracts altogether. That looks like something the carriers did to screw the consumer again.

The CRTC has unveiled a new code of conduct that forbids cellphone companies from charging customers fees to break their contracts after two years and makes it easier to unlock cellphones.

Those are two of the biggest takeaways from a new code of conduct that the broadcast regulator unveiled on Monday and will come into effect for contracts signed after Dec. 2, 2013.

New CRTC wireless rules ban contract break fees after 2 years - Business - CBC News

For contracts signed after Dec 2013, they cannot charge you cancellation fees after 2 years, but carriers are already ridding all their 3 year contracts starting now anyways.

If you signed a contract before Dec 2013, they can still charge you cancellation after 2 years.

[FerrariEnzo]

I still at people who signs a contract before this rule takes place...