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May 17, 2014
10:05 am
bstreet71
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You're looking at the wrong plan. What I have is the tablet flex plan. It is $5 a month minimum. I don't want to talk or text, I have a phone for that. I just want data. I'll be using well beyond 300 Meg half the year so there's no way Speakout is competitive.

http://mobility.telus.com/en/O.....ipad.shtml

May 17, 2014
10:40 am
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Why anyone would be willing to pay Telus $.50/MB for data is puzzling for me, or did I get the math wrong?

May 17, 2014
6:21 pm
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Why anyone would be willing to pay Telus $.50/MB for data is puzzling for me, or did I get the math wrong?

The $0.50 is only when you go over the 5GB at $45.

http://mobility.telus.com/en/O.....ipad.shtml

It does have a lower minimum than SO ($5 rather than $10), but the next price point is $15 for up to 200MB, so if you are using under 150MB, SO is still cheaper, but that could be made up by having a few months of under 10MB on the Telus plan. For my usage pattern, so far at least, I am at worse getting close to the 100MB of data per month, so SO would be cheaper than Telus, and of course this Telus plan has no voice or text abilities at any price as far as I can see. I generally pay about $17.40/month for the voice/text usage, so SO is only costing me $27.40 per month is SO dollars, or $22.83 in Canadian dollars (pre-tax) since I have received $120 SO dollars for $100 CAD when I have "topped up". If I were to find a significantly better deal for this amount of usage, I would switch, but I haven't seen it anywhere.

May 17, 2014
6:40 pm
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I just based it on the minimum of $5.00. However I see that if you used 200MB, then you'd save $5.00 over SO. In any case, it still seems ridiculous, especially when I look at how much they charge large business and Gov't at 1 cent per MB.

May 18, 2014
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I am using Bell's tablet flex plan ($20 for 1GB/month with free SIM and activation) and am happy with it.

May 20, 2014
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So long as Wind covers where you go, they have better data plan prices.
$15/1 GB and $25/3 GB.

Even at these rates, they are still way too high.

May 20, 2014
7:59 am
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ddalley said:

So long as Wind covers where you go, they have better data plan prices.
$15/1 GB and $25/3 GB.


I think Wind also does not charge overage or cut you off once you have reached the "max", they just lower your speed, which for browsing and email probably does not matter that much.

Incidentally I cannot see the $15 plan on their website anywhere. They do start adding data to their voice plans at $35, but don't add voicemail until $40.

May 20, 2014
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Throttling also applies to the smallest plan. Their web site doesn't make it easy to find.

http://windmobile.ca/plans-and.....et-Plan-15

May 25, 2014
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Wife and I stick with Speak out PAYG and $10 100mb and so far we are not missing a lot. In fact as of this month got 4 days to go and still got 80mb left. It's working for us as we are Shaw customers and have Shaw Go Open wifi. At work we have internet and don't have to use my data. So for now it's working out okay for us.

May 27, 2014
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Come on, the best SIM card is Tbeytel at this moment. we have use it more than half year.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com.....y-1397855/

May 27, 2014
2:37 pm
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tbaytel does look pretty good for straight data: http://www.tbaytel.net/persona.....p-personal

1ยข/200KB is their standard "no plan" rate, which is 200MB for $10, but it looks like this is billed in chunks of 200kB - making it a pay-as-you-go data system. For those months when I have only used 20MB, I would only be paying $1 .

They only have "one-time" data add-ons with capacity of up to 20GB for $100, which if I am reading things correct, would expire after 365 days for "pay-by-the-minute" people, which comes out to 2GB for $10, and their data seems to be available throughout the Rogers network nationally.

All is not perfect though - calls outside of Thunder Bay Ontario seem to be non-local and are charged double the $0.20/min of local calls, and when "roaming" away from Thunder Bay all incoming calls are also at $0.40/min.

If I were living in TBay, it does look like good competition to SO.

May 27, 2014
4:28 pm
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That $100.00 data plan sounds attractive. Hopefully more providers will start to roll out similar plans as incentives to attract a user base.

May 29, 2014
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Thunder Bay Tel has these data plans.

http://www.tbaytel.net/persona.....leinternet

I am not sure of any dis/advantage yet, other than being out of their local area and struggling to find a way to do their credit check. It doesn't look cheap and they want you to go into their dealer locations.

June 2, 2014
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Given the choices that were available to me here (SO just wasn't an option), I chose Wind's $15 data plan. Apparently, they just stopped offering what I really wanted - pay-as-I-go data, about 3-4 months ago.

Just so you know, the SIM card is $25. There may also be a disconnect fee, but I don't remember if that was for Wind or Rogers.

June 3, 2014
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TSellers said:

That $100.00 data plan sounds attractive. Hopefully more providers will start to roll out similar plans as incentives to attract a user base.


You all wrong. with tbaytel, we only use data+fongo. it is $100 for one year. I'm very satisfied with fongo.

July 25, 2014
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Well, my billed data usage is increasing recently. Used to be massivley under recorded, now only slightly.

Running out of funds, but can't find a cheaper alternative. I'll probobly top up next month.

Only thing I wish SO had was short codes.

July 25, 2014
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ddalley said:

Apparently, they just stopped offering what I really wanted - pay-as-I-go data, about 3-4 months ago.


I have it now. It's awsome. The coverage is not, the call quality is so so, but I can't complain with unlimited incoming and data priced at 1c/10kb. Using opera mini, if I need to check something small like movie times, it only costs me 10-15c which is well worth the expense and if you go over $2 in usage in a day of anything, EVERYTHING is unlimited till 12am. This includes data.

So theoretically, I could use 5gb (of the allotted 'fair usage policy' data allowed per month) in a day for only $2 ( but the rest of the month would have really throttled data)

It's the best plan ever. With SO I would spend about $50/year, and on Wind I only spend $30, but use it 10x as much.

So if I was stuck with SO still, but using it like I do with Wind now, I would be spending $500/year.

My only regret is not buying a ton of the Prepaid plans and auctioning them off.

July 31, 2014
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MegaSilver said:

Well, my billed data usage is increasing recently. Used to be massivley under recorded, now only slightly.

Running out of funds, but can't find a cheaper alternative. I'll probobly top up next month.

Only thing I wish SO had was short codes.


+1

I too came to the forums looking to see if others experiences the same increased data billing. I did not have a reason to consider Wind before but i'm afraid its come to that now.

September 8, 2014
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martinvincent said:

MegaSilver said:

Well, my billed data usage is increasing recently. Used to be massivley under recorded, now only slightly.

Running out of funds, but can't find a cheaper alternative. I'll probobly top up next month.

Only thing I wish SO had was short codes.


+1

I too came to the forums looking to see if others experiences the same increased data billing. I did not have a reason to consider Wind before but i'm afraid its come to that now.


+1
Same here.

September 9, 2014
7:43 am
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It now seems to be 1:1 accurate. I'm still sticking with the $35 100 mins, texting, 500 MB plan for now. May switch to Koodo if they have another top-up sale like they did last year. Truely PAYG.