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Fido launching new Prepaid plans March 28th?

By on March 16, 2010 at 8:23am in Asides, Fido News, Mobile News, Various News

The Canadian wireless market is getting more competitive and it’s all good for us customers. I believe we’ll eventually see cheaper handset prices and we’re now seeing rate plans dropping.

Fido recently introduced their new City Fido plans and also a slew of new handsets. For those interested in Prepaid option, Fido looks to be set to release a couple new Prepaid plans on March 28th. We were informed from HowardForums that both of the plans plans below will include: Call display, Voicemail, Call waiting, Call forward and billing by the minute.

$19:
- 50 daytime minutes (local)
- 300 evening and weekend minutes (local)
- 50 outgoing text messages (Canada-wide)
- Unlimited incoming text messages
- Overage per minute: $0.40 per minute (local)
- Overage per message: $0.15 per message (Canada-wide)

$29:
- 100 daytime minutes (local)
- 1000 evening and weekend minutes (local)
- 100 outgoing text messages (Canada-wide)
- Unlimited incoming text message
- Overage per minute: $0.40 per minute (local)
- Overage per message: $0.15 per message (Canada-wide)

Activation Bonus
$10 activation credit
$15 bonus credit if activation is done online or e-mail address is registered with account
requires purchase of new FIDO handset

What do you think… you like these Prepaid options?

Related posts:

  1. Fido launches “CityFido PrePaid” for $45
  2. CityFido defends territory… reduces its price
  3. TELUS dropping Prepaid local rates March 7th
  4. New Fido iPhone Combo & Data Plans (October 1st)

Discussion

11 comments for “Fido launching new Prepaid plans March 28th?”

  1. The only good thing I see about that is that it now includes voicemail and call display. I hate having to pay extra for that.

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    Posted by theninjasquad | March 16, 2010, 8:46 am
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  2. Overage is 40c a min wow.

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    Posted by Larry | March 16, 2010, 8:59 am
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  3. Hmmm it’s tough to say whether these are better or worse.

    It seems to me Rogers is being sneaky yet again and making prepaid customers pay the equivalent of a monthly plan plus call display and voicemail. Look at that $29 plan, it’s like the $20 Fido monthly plan with the $10 voicemail and call display add-on.

    So no, I don’t believe this is a good sign of increase in competition or lower rates, I think it is Rogers wising up to many people going prepaid to keep free call display and voicemail (that’s what I did for a long time) and making them pay for it.

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    Posted by Ted Avery | March 16, 2010, 9:00 am
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  4. I’d rather go with a WIND plan and deal with the spotty coverage (which over time will definitely improve). And until that coverage gets improved I’ll be dealing with MUCH better customer service

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    Posted by Fadi Rizk | March 16, 2010, 9:25 am
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  5. Fido prepaid has always included call display and voicemail. Prepaid is for people with bad credit and who are under 18. They aren’t that bad, but who wants prepaid anyways.

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    Posted by Kevin | March 16, 2010, 9:25 am
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  6. Isnt it better to go with the wind $45 on prepaid and have everything unlimited? Or even the $35

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    Posted by VTECMAN | March 16, 2010, 10:15 am
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  7. @Kevin
    Prepaid is for those who use VoIP at home and don’t call often from their mobile, i.e. those who don’t let themselves be ripped off by ridiculously expensive and ridiculously long-term contracts.

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    Posted by Sherman | March 16, 2010, 11:55 am
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  8. What about people not in the city? can they get this deal or a they out of luck?

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    Posted by Gussy | March 16, 2010, 12:14 pm
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  9. If you like to text, these are pretty crappy options…

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    Posted by Thomas S | March 16, 2010, 11:52 pm
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  10. Are these actually prepaid or are they new monthly options?

    If they are monthly then this might be good news, as it means you can get caller id etc included in a voice plan under $20. A data plan is $25 at least so you could have a fairly decent basic smartphone plan for $44 a month.

    If these are just prepaid though, then it isn’t any better. You can’t combine a prepaid plan with a data plan (I tried), and caller id and voicemail were included before anyway.

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    Posted by Colin | March 18, 2010, 10:43 am
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  11. Id go for the $29 option if it inccluded 300 day time minutes and unlimited incoming calls and 2500 text messages.. until fido comes up with a plan similar to that or actually matches WIND.. ive ported all 3 of my #s from Rogers to wind and i intend to stay with WIND.. ive been ripped off for over 12 years not its time to get something back.. i want Fido/Rogers to price match WIND and do a city plan where ud have to be in a Rogers/Fido local zone or ull be charged roaming.. i can live with that.. i already do live with that with WIND.. and also no 3 year contracts.. im willing to sign 18 months contract the most.. new contracts should be 6 months 12 months or 18 months (which should scoew you a free phone)… WIND Rocks!!!

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    Posted by Marko | March 23, 2010, 12:11 am
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