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Koodo revamps monthly plans, removes long distance charges within Canada
Wow, Koodo Mobile has changed up their entire monthly price plans. The new Canada-wide plans ALL include long-distance within Canada, basically eliminating long distance and calling zones. There are 5 plans that range from $15 a month to an unlimited $45 a month. A different amount of minutes are allocated for each plan, but all include Canada-wide calling and up to 50 text messages, evenings and weekends start at 5pm for the $25 plan and above. In addition, as you can see by the brochure that was sent to us Koodo states that all Canada-wide plan include family calling, call waiting, conference calling and per second billing. Data and caller display are extra.
Great move. Expect other carriers to follow.
(Thanks tipster!)
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Wow! Finally! I almost can’t believe it. One of the big guys eliminating long distance!?
Now let’s watch the domino effect. Solo, Virgin, Fido will all follow suit very shortly. Wait for it…
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This is great news, especially for people in places where WIND and Mobilicity haven’t reached (Halifax, NS for me). I hope they don’t adjust prices on add-ons or other plans upwards to compensate.
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Thanks wind and mobilicity. Now since compeition gets company’s like this to give the best value.
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Wow!!! This blows everyone out of the water!! $55 for unlimited nation wide calling and texting with call display and voice mail!!! Sign me up.
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If I wasn’t on the promotional Wind plan, I’d switch in a second.
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Just like in the United States! Finally!
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One catch – they are no longer including unlimited txt/mms. It looks like only 50 are included.
This probably doesn’t affect many with a data device because of better messengers such as kik..
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Ya, but for $5 more you get the unlimited text and pictures. Not too bad.
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I also just noticed that there’s a $10 CallerID + VoiceMail + Unlimited txt/mms addon.
I don’t know how much CallerID + VoiceMail was before, but I have a feeling that it’s actually CHEAPER now and includes the texting
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Unfortunately, this value pack was removed from the website. The add-ons cost:
* $5 for unlimited SMS and MMS
* $6 for Caller ID
* $6 for voice mail
So all these fees can add-up. $45 for Canada-wide calling is a good enough deal, however.
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Yes! Thank you Koodo, after this being a standard for U.S. Carriers for the longest time, I will no longer have to pay domestic LD
Thank you!!!
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There is no VM or CID but add this with the rumored $25 2gb data and it could be an interesting Summer / Fall. This is going to hurt Wind/Mobi there only advantage is their USA calling and USA roamer rates. Kinda surprised they didn’t add unlimited texts
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The 2gb data isn’t a rumour – you can add it if you’re an existing customer. It’s just not on the main site for some reason.
I have it on my account
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Their website is a little buggy but now lists the $25 per month for 2 GB add-on. Perhaps it would be better if it were merged with Data Saver, however.
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Don’t be fooled, no Data, and still making a distinction between 5pm and 7pm… also no caller ID, voicemail and limited txt messages = FAIL! Wind/Mobilicity plans are still better no reason to switch!
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WIND is great if you stay in the zone. If you go outside of it then don’t even bother using data or you’ll become a poor man pretty quick.
I don’t know about you but I spend a fair amount of time in the car driving places that are not within WIND zones.
It’s nice to be able to have a 2 hour call with my wife during a 2 hour drive from up north to home.
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most people i know work 9 to 5 so unlimited talk after 5pm and a small bucket of mins weekday is enough for most people
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Friendly and non-offensive road safety reminder: make sure you use a non-distracting Bluetooth and/or hands-free speakerphone so that you can drive to and from work safely!
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Too bad they removed the 35$ and 45$ plans which included Caller ID. They give you free long distance, but you end up paying more for unlimited text ( 5$) , Caller ID ( 6$).
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Only 50 texts, no caller ID or voice mail, no data… yup, Telus still isn’t learning.
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They now have a $10 CD,VM and unlimited text bundle. Also, I can confirm the $25 for 2gb because my girlfriend has it for her iPhone.
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Don’t get me wrong, I do see this as a positive step in the right direction, but how is paying $80 for unlimited voice, text, 2GB data, voice mail and CID a deal?
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Are you sure about the $10 CD,VM and unlimited text bundle? It is not on their website.
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The Call Display, VM & Unlimited Messaging can be found when you actually log into your account.
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Does this change apply to making Canada-wide calls while at home or when making calls home while anywhere (on Koodo network) within Canada?
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anywhere in Canada!
These people that are complaining, would complain if somebody gave them a bag of money… they would want more..
Wind this wind that… it takes a competitor from another country to come in and get you guys…but you can’t even travel outside your zone or get screwed…to me it just sounds like those who are wind users are kids because they have no car and can’t travel outside their area.. LOL
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Also, the $35 city koodo plans are still availablei
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For those complaining that all the add ons are still too expensive. You’re right. But this is a step in the right direction. Long distance fees were always more annoying to me than any of the add on prices.
It’s a small victory, hopefully things keep progressing this way!
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Well Jonsey you tool, this is a reliable service that’s Canada wide not zoned! And is not a budget carrier like wind with dropped calls.
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For $40 a month I get all that and more. Including unlimited MMS and US long distance. Call me a tool if you will but I can honestly say that in the 18 months I’ve been with Wind I’ve had no real let downs. I’ve had 2 dropped calls, that’s pretty much it.
So, who’s the tool here?
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Everyone has different needs you are staying within your zone so you dont need what koodo is offering.
But there are people who travel across country and for them to be on a Wind plan would be very expensive due to roaming charges and this is where Koodo Comes in.
Stop arguing, its like saying pears are better than apples.
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In the present and near future, they will not match Mobi or public mobile in price and features. It will be higher but sound the same. For this to happen; public mobile and mobi need to get the new spectrum auction or they will fail or have slow growth.
The real change will come when the big three do the same as Quebec and match prices and features.
I think the federal government should not allow the big three to bid on the upcoming spectrum. The big three do not need it and would just buy it up to stop competition and charge us later to make up the losses.
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Well can you travel across a zone,without paying $4 a mb or $25 every 100 minutes. And you can’t compare a promo plan to standard plans. Right now wind is $55 plus you gotta buy your own device. And you don’t see the big picture, now people up in Barrie or rural towns can get unlimited calling. A big step for Canadians.
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BRO, I never said that it wasn’t a big step. In fact, I prefaced my statement by saying that it was a step in the right direction. But if Koodo/Telus is going to try and lure me, it better come up with something far more competitive than that.
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If it was $60-$65 that would be great, but that wont happen. I can see all carriers following suit soon. It’ll get more competitive in the future, baby steps.
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Wind’s dropped calls have stopped but they still lack the ability to penetrate through buildings with AWS which makes them less attractive.
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Great deal for people who only make a few calls a month…. not so great if you send text messages, use data…..
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I think it’s great for those who send texts and use data, because doing that outside of a ‘home zone’ on the zoned companies results in lots of fees and ultimately discourages you from doing what you want.
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Koodo’s really stepping up the game. At this rate they may very well be my next carrier after my Bell contract expires.
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@ Ryan: Well if we look in the US you can get Unlimted Call, Texting and 2GB of data for $80 with T-Mobile, probably the best individual plan down there. You can get basically the same now with Koodo. This is probably the first time a Canadian company has matched a US company, without zones. Not all of us want to use our MOBILE phone in the same city.
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So if I live in Toronto and travel to Vancouver and make a call back to Toronto, will I be charged long distance? Or does the Canada wide calling only apply if you are calling from where you live?
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@abc123 Anywhere you can Koodo/Telus coverage anywhere in Canada, you can place a call to any Canadian phone number. It doesn’t matter what your ‘local’ number is. Call from Toronto to Vancouver, or vice versa, with a Halifax number. Doesn’t matter, no long distance charges.
This is why this is such a huge deal. First time it happens in Canada.
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It’s from anywhere in Canada to anywhere else in Canada I believe. This is how it was with my previous Koodo plan so I don’t know why it would differ now.
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Thanks for the explanation.
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I see a little subscript number after that “Canada-Wide Calling”… What’s the fine print we’re not being shown?
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I just checked Koodo’s site and the plans are listed, as well as the 2GB data plan.
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kudos to koodo for stepping their game up, can’t wait to switch to these guys.
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If you want the new plan, you must go to the website and do the switch, otherwise you still have the old plan applying to you.
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Sweet. I think I’ll stick with what I have now (the $2 LD add-on that gets me 5cent long distance minutes or something), but Koodo’s looking pretty legit these days.
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Take that wind i can finally found on limited outside of edmonton good gob koodo
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This is not even news worthy. These letters come in the mail at the same rate as my spam e-mail.
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I do think these plans are better than the competition plans in Quebec. Since Koodo now allows you to call to anywhere in Canada when you are anywhere in Canada(Telus/Bell Network) so u save big bucks.
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yes there is a $10 bundle for CID VM and messaging, it replaces their $12 for CID VM and 5pm. This is definitely a game changer.
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The 5pm evenings and weekends note at the bottom of the koodo page, says:
Unlimited calling within your local calling area from 5pm to 8am, Monday through Thursday, and from 5pm Friday to 8am Monday.
does this mean i and long distance calls would eat up my anytime minutes?
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Must have been a mistake. Now it just says, “Unlimited calling from 5pm to 8am….”
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sorry
“does this mean ANY long distance calls would eat up anytime minutes”
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I want to like this change but I can’t. Sure, for those traveling a lot or needing lots of in-Canada LD this is absolutely awesome. For most of the population however it is not …. you lose CID, you lose unlimited texting so you end up paying more for the same thing (nb. I’m using the $35 unlimited incoming plan for a comparison). If these canada-wide plans were just options in a lineup of plans that gave you other things instead for a reasonable price then yeah, it would have been a step forward. This way they just cleverly devised a plan to fleece everybody while we all thank them and proclaim them saviours. Ugly!!!
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For those who want long-distance call anywhere in Canada and are not moving outside their zone (major cities), I think the Chatr unlimited talk and text plan is a better plan (35 $ / month).
This price includes Voicemail, Call Display and unlimited talk and text to any number in Canada.
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I dont know what people are complaing about.
Its always Wind this and Mobilicity that. You know what thats super spectacular if you live in the Wind and Mobilicity areas, but alot of Canadian dont and Koodo really is the best option for that.
Also I travel alot of times to areas in Vancouver that are not covered by Wind and Mobilicity so why would I want to pay for a service I cant use?
I think before you start bashing or trolling, think about it logically.
I understand that alot of people love Wind/Mobilicity but they dont meet everyone needs
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Just got the Optimus One and the 35$ Canada wide plan plus 10$ for call display, voicemail and unlimited text. It is much better value than anything Virgin could offer (former provider) which was the same except that I had 100 minutes and it was not nationwide. Time will tell about the service and any other smart phone Koodo will offer. I would have preferred a HTC phone but they had slim pickings. Another+ was that Koodo does not impose a data plan, unlike Fido, Virgin, etc with a smartphone. The plan charges 5, 10, 15$ depending on how much data was used. I’m not a heavy user so even 100 mb was a lot. Just need it for GPS from time to time or email… That’s just me.
Koodos to Koodo.
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This is good marketing, people will like that and buy! But for the customers in the know it is probably not as good as it looks (so from a management perspective this is really a good move!). The new prices are nice for some users (including power-users), but not for everyone. Me and my partner both have the (now outdated) Social plan with different add ons. She pays 54$/month – if she was to change for one of the new plans she’d have to fork out 60$ to get the same service. Of course, she’d save 0.05$/minute on national long distance charges, but she doesn’t have a lot of them. And yes, of course, she could get more bang for the buck – but as she doesn’t need that it is not really an asset.
I would maybe save a little (down from the 74$ to 70$) and wouldn’t have to worry if I’m still within my 300 minutes (there is no real time voice billing in Nova Scotia; I’ve never went over the 300 but have reached more than 250 minutes sometimes).
When we add it up, she’d pay 6$ more and I’d save 4$ (not really, see below). Of course, we could just change one of the two plans. New customers however don’t have that choice. So for some people it has become more expensive.
Furthermore, my base rates would go up from 40 to 45. This means that cancelling the add-ons when I’m outside the country for a while is going to save me less money. So far, I could save 34$/month (plus tax) by deactivating my add ons. This would go down to 25$/month if I switched to the new plans (or seen from the other side, I’d be paying 5$/month more while not using the service). As I travel a lot for work, this reduces the 4$ monthly savings even further.
Note that if you use the “payback” through the “tab”, every saved dollar or every incremental dollar spent is actually just 90 cents.
This is all rather complex maths which serves Telus/Koodo well: It makes comparing prices/costs more and more difficult. Which reduces customer churning. I’m of the impression that they have very talented people in pricing and marketing that cooperate well.
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Correction: She’d have to fork out 70$, so the price would increase by 16$/month. I forgot that there is no data included in the new prices. My bad.
So if we would become Koodo customers now, the new prices would be higher for us.
Still, management-wise a great move. They make more money and most people will think that it is cheaper, because long distance is included. Wether these people need long distance to that amount or not.
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For me this works out great! I was on the $25 Talk and Text Combo with the $12 add on for VM, CID, 5 pm evenings and weekends. For the same amount, I could have long distance included! Well, actually I would save $2 since the VM, CID and unlimited texts is only $10.
I don’t use my phone to make phone calls during the day as I’m at work, my family all live in areas that are long distance for me to call, and I do text quite a bit.
Now I don’t have to worry about buying phone cards to help minimize my long distance costs.
This is a good thing for me. In fact, looking at my usage I went down to the $20 plan with 7 pm evenings and weekends as I just don’t use my phone that much right after work.
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Do you have to go and physically change you plan to get the free long distance? and if you do not will you be charged long distance.
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Removimg long distsnce is terriable
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They removed the 15 dollar plan. What a shame! :@
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Here’s another little catch they snuck in with the canada wide changes..THEY SWITCHED FROM PER SECOND BILLING TO PER MINUTE. Makes a big difference imo and i find the new plans are WORSE than the old one
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