Comments on: Comments up until May 3, 2007

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:31:26 +0000

As per Mike above. $100 deal is back.
Paid for $100 airtime and got a free Nokia 1112 in Kitchener yesterday. For occasional/emergency use it’s gotta be the best deal going.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:19:20 +0000

7-11 speakout is the best money can buy in the country of wireless rip off, Canada. I bought a Nokia 1112 with the Dec06 $100 promo, got the phone for free with a total of $110 credit. It was a present (among many others for my wife. The phone is small, light, with excelent battery. She doesn’t need stupid features like camera, or a fancy colour display, so the phone was great. We had the same issue with the initial credit (was less than $10), but cust serv adjusted the credit. Contrary to the cust serv from Fido who are all shockingly rude and stupid (I am still on a monthly plan with them), Speakout was great. Even returned a call to tell us fixed the voice mail (there was a glitch). All in all, a great value for the money!

By: Alan L

Alan L — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:20:36 +0000

Starting from May 1, 2007, phone comes with $5 airtime preloaded.

By: Lou Vaccarello

Lou Vaccarello — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:10:15 +0000

Hey, JoeJoe. The telephone came preloaded with $10,00 of air time. I believe that is standard for the 7-11 telephones.

By: JOEJOE

JOEJOE — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:27:52 +0000

Lou Vaccarello – How much airtime was preloaded?

By: Lou Vaccarello

Lou Vaccarello — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:23:32 +0000

I just purchased the Nokia 6061 for $50 ($75 off) with the purchase of a $100 airtime credit at a local 7-11 in Toronto, today. They do offer the Nokia 1112 for free with the purchase of a $100 airtime credit , though. I intend to port my current Rogers cell number to the 7-11 phone, although the customer service person at 7-11 seemed unsure of the correct process and suggested I gather the network password for the cell phone from Rogers. Does anyone know the correct process or steps to follow? Edit by admin: see this forum topic for your answer!

By: mike

mike — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:15:51 +0000

I phoned a store in Vaughan and he said the $100 deal started today.

By: Tim Riley

Tim Riley — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:03:44 +0000

Thanks Alan! Yeah, I currently already have a Tmobile cell plan in the US… this 7-11 phone would be for a family member. I guess if the family member travels for an extended period in the states, I may just get a second ‘family phone’ on my account to give her. We currently use Onesuite both in the US and Canada – rates at 2.9cents a minute in the US and 3.5 in Canada, plus easy access to toll free number with only a small surcharge in the off chance we need to use a payphone to call, which works for us…

Looking forward to seeing what the May 7-11 mobile promo is going to be! Anyone see anything yet in stores?

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:22:27 +0000

Hi Tom R, If you travel a lot in the US how about a US 7-11 phone? I use TuVo for extended US stays, but I might switch to 7-11. For calling Canada I get a 10-10-YAK calling card and use local hospital “courtesy phones”. My wife’s a nurse. We find these phones in surgery waiting areas or near “admitting and/or billing” offices. Most hotels also have courtesy phones. TMobile used to have a month-to-month plan that offered free incoming minutes so a relative used a “ring back” service and all long distance calls were “incoming” at US.03/ minute. Get creative….. like the Dutch guy from ING Direct says “Save your money”. Wait’ll WalMart gets in the game…. .07/min….$3.99 for the phone/SIM and a toaster. alan

By: Tim Riley

Tim Riley — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:26:19 +0000

Thanks Peter! I just called customer service and they said it wouldn’t be any problem to switch to the local Halifax / 902 area code. That’s too bad about the US roaming, but that’s ok – I guess if I’m going to be travelling for longer periods I’ll just get one of those US based SIM cards / service off Ebay before I go!