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Cellphone service advice

darrin1200

darrin1200

Darrin
I‘m currently with Roger’s, have been for years, but they are just to expensive for what I need.

After looking around, the best basic service price, is with Freedom Mobile.
Does anyone have any experience with this company, good or bad?
 
Excellent coverage, fair pricing and if you travel outside Canada their $20 or $30 add-ons (with 1 or 5gb of roaming data resp.) covers 92 countries with unlimited calling locally and back to Canada.
Seamless transition from Canada to destination, and between coutries. Recently used in north and south of Ireland.

We are on the $30 plan (now $35 I think) but with auto billing the price comes down. We have 1.2gb of data each, seldom come even close to using it. Mostly Google maps and Spotify when driving.
 
I switched from Rogers to Freedom IIRC about 10 years ago.

Half the price and works almost as well 9/10, they don't exaggerate your usage like Rogers does. Was definitely worth the move for me.

Koodo completely sucks! Expensive and non existent service. Good luck getting someone on the phone with them 0/10
 
gerritv said:
Excellent coverage, fair pricing and if you travel outside Canada their $20 or $30 add-ons (with 1 or 5gb of roaming data resp.) covers 92 countries with unlimited calling locally and back to Canada.
Seamless transition from Canada to destination, and between coutries. Recently used in north and south of Ireland.

We are on the $30 plan (now $35 I think) but with auto billing the price comes down. We have 1.2gb of data each, seldom come even close to using it. Mostly Google maps and Spotify when driving.
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For $30, they are offering unlimited Can/US talk and text (that includes travel to US) and 10Gb data. $35 plan gets it up to 50Gb.
 
Yeah but Freedom mobile used to be with Shaw for FREE. Then they switched once they got bought out by Rogers. Freedom mobile does not have good range at all - i.e. you are on rather crap network this is WHY it was FREE.

I switched few weeks ago to Virgin which is on Bell network - so similar to Rogers.

45 includes new phone (google pixel) valued at $700 or so. 60 Gb data, unlimited calling and unlimited texts with US. 2 year contract. I am unsure about US calling could be included as well since its Virgin. Oh and you get net gain $90 card for BestBuy.

I dumped Koodo - may dump it for the other line as well.

Excluding the phone the service is ... $15 per month... cannot beat that!
 
whenever I travel out of the GTA my freedom mobile coverage sucks, basically useless.

but I pay $35 bucks for
Unlimited Data
Unlimited Canada/U.S. Texting
Unlimited Canada-wide Calling
Unlimited Canada/US-wide Picture/Video Messaging
Unlimited Nationwide Talk & Text

On the other hand I dont call anyone really and seldom use the data and only have the service to maintain my phone number. The service never works in an emergency such as storms, wide spread power failures etc. I've kept thinking I need to revert to an actual land line but I'm not sure that I even have land line distribution within my townhouse.
 
TorontoBuilder said:
whenever I travel out of the GTA my freedom mobile coverage sucks, basically useless.

but I pay $35 bucks for
Unlimited Data
Unlimited Canada/U.S. Texting
Unlimited Canada-wide Calling
Unlimited Canada/US-wide Picture/Video Messaging
Unlimited Nationwide Talk & Text

On the other hand I dont call anyone really and seldom use the data and only have the service to maintain my phone number. The service never works in an emergency such as storms, wide spread power failures etc. I've kept thinking I need to revert to an actual land line but I'm not sure that I even have land line distribution within my townhouse.
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switch to Virgin - for $10 more you get a free phone and superior Bell coverage. I did not want freedom for free as its coverage in AB is a joke.
 
We are on a cell plan with Roger called Simply Connect, at $20 flat rate per month. However we are being told that this co. will cease to exist in December and we have to join Redwire at $10, because they are switching us to 5G
I don't use any PhunnyPhone stuff, text and talk only, so it works for me.
 
Just thought I would give an update on my cell phone journey.
I tried a few a couple of phone calls to Rogers, ( 2hours of my life I’ll never get back). One that had no clue what they were doing and another that just kept reading the offers from the website. Then I went to the store. The girl there was friendly and very helpful, but also couldn’t help. I told her what the offer from Virgin was, (from a local Mobile Shop). 2 lines, 30Gb, talk and text Can for the wife and my line would also have calling to the US. ($75). She even showed me the offers available on here computer, and there was nothing even close. Roger’s is notoriously expensive.
So off I go to the Mobile shop, paid their $120 admin fee, and switch to Virgin (even though I hate Bell). Had the service 2 days, noticed that in the area of my house, I couldn’t get better than 1-2 bars 3G. Next to useless.
3rd day arrives, and I get an email from the Roger’s, with a Win Back offer. 2 lines 60Gb, talk and text in Can for $34 each line. A good offer, but not worth the hassle of going through the switching back and fees, so I ignored it.
Fast forward 4 hours, I’m in my shop and suddenly get a call from the Win Back team. A fairly quick 1/2hr show with many apologies because of my long loyalty. Sum up of the final offer. 2 phones. 60Gb data, Talk, text AND roaming in Can/US/Mex $35 each. They would also wave their fees and reimburse the switching admin fees that I paid Virgin.
Well I couldn’t say no. 2 days later the new Sims arrived, I called the guy back and he did all the switching. Now I’m back up to 2 bars 5G in my house area. Not great, but usable.

Moral of the story, they can always do better, you just need to force their hand.
 
We just went through the phone fun. Simply Connect was $20 a month and Rogers owned it, then it ceased to exist and we were told we could join Redwire phone for $15/month, and it was 5G. My phone would not go to 5g, my wife's would. Had to buy an idiot phone.
Also my friend who we got onto the Citi system was in the same pickle. Rogers tried to make a smooth switchover, I'll credit them with that, but there were too many carts jackknifed in front of the horse by their IT dept. We all had to call and get it done on the phone. Luckily we have a land line as the cell went dead as soon as they messed with it. The support people were english speaking, no accents, and were very patient. To switch over our friend took 3/4 of an hour to create an account and a password and set up billing and transfer his number to the sim. They were flawless, patient and helpful.. I was not expecting this at all.
 
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