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Jukee
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So I just got off the phone with Rogers. My bill is roughly $48 which covers 200 weekday minutes and unlimited nights and weekends. I don't have caller ID,an answering machine or the internet on it. I need a new phone and my contract is up in March so I figured I would just cancel, pay them $140 to get out of my contract and sign up with another company. Anyway's, the lady on the phone asked me why I wanted to cancel, so I said it is because I lost one of my jobs. She then say's well maybe I can help you out and lower your bill. She say's that I can keep exactly the same plan I have with added incoming text messages for free and 50 outgoing a month. Guess how much she lowered my bill?!?! It will now be $25.52/month and I dodn't have to sign another 3 year contract. She said to just go and by a Pay As You Go phone and stick my Rogers sim card in it. I'm in shock that all I had to do was tell them I lost one of my jobs and they lowered my bill in half, I should of done this months ago when my husband was on strike for 14 months.
I'm just curious how much your cell phone bill is a month? I've been told that us Canadians get ripped off big time.
I'm just curious how much your cell phone bill is a month? I've been told that us Canadians get ripped off big time.
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We get 1500 any time minutes to split
free nights and weekends
free anytime cell to cell (regardless of carrier)
unlimited texts (incoming and outgoing)
unlimted data
we don't have a home phone or home internet. we use the phone as a modem. 4G is cool like that.
i pay $75 all in a month for an iphone ... i get:
150 daytime mins
fab 5
early evenings
unlimited evenings and wkends
500 mb data
caller id
voicemail
unlimited texting
i'm with bell here in toronto ...
$83.05/month for me.
The breakdown is: $39.99 for 450 anytime minutes, 5000 night & weekend minutes, anytime rollover minutes.
$30 for unlimited data.
$5 for 200 text messages/month.
The remaining bit is taxes, etc.
I've never gone over on minutes. But I'm not big on long phone conversations. And I've only exceeded the text messages once, it's something like 5 or 10 cents per message if I go over.
I'm very happy with it
For that $50 I get:
Unlimited Minutes
Unlimited Texting
No Restrictions on calling times
Internet (need my PJ.com/10C !)
Facebook app
twitter
Gmail
AIM
all kinds of other apps
coverage is great
signal is very good
phones are pretty nice
I have a samsung incognito w/disappearing touch face and opens up for qwerty full screen and video/still camera....cost me 129 with activation (free)
no contract
just use autopay and it stays on without you having to do anything except make sure you have $50 on your credit card each month
all that junk
for $50 a month isn't bad
I hear Cricket is only $35 a month but i think they only work near metropolitan areas, and I don't know if cricket has absolutely unlimited everything like boost does
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that doesn't sound too bad. they have some decent looking phones as well.
That's what I have. I've been going over on my texts lately, and its 10 cents a message, so my criteria is if I hit 300 messages consistently, I'll switch to the $15 for 1500 messages, because the extra 100 messages makes it the same price.
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according to my bill ... $0.75 ... i should change my daytime mins to 200 actually now that i've relooked at my bill ...
I can't stand Bell though, i'll never sing up with them again for anything.
i like most here in ontario have gone with both and unfortunately rogers won the battle of the suck-ass corporations with me ... so, i'm stuck with bell ...
i understand how there is
but with mine its all-inclusive
so no separate fee
for e-911 and with gps you're in pretty good shape there
jo
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"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
I have a prepaid phone. I buy 1000 minutes whenever it gets low, 2-3 times a year. I like not having a monthly bill. You can't get a smart phone that way though, so there are some limitations.
really good option. that's what we used for several years via tmobile. i barely used mine, so that the monthy bill worked out to be less than $10 per month. The gf would typically be a refill every 3 months or so.
we also had a home line (free local and long distance) bundled with our home internet that ran anouther $80 or so per month. i figured we spent 110-120 per month for communitcation. we are paying more now, but i'm ok with that. it's nice having the internet everywhere.