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Videotron to release a data sharing plan between Home Internet, Smartphones and Internet Sticks
Data sharing between devices is not new in Canada, it’s been around for a bit but the service is somewhat limited and comes at a high price. Carrier data sharing plans give users the ability to share a certain amount of data from their monthly smartphone voice and data plan with a tablet. What if there was another way to share data?
Quebec-based Videotron offers home internet, mobile phones with data and internet sticks. We’ve been informed that Videotron is planning to launch one massive data block. We’re not sure what it will be called, nor how it’ll show up on the monthly bill, but here’s what we know so far: in the coming months Videotron will allow their customers to combine their data between all 3 services – the ultimate internet bundle. So let’s say there’s a 50GB plan, this will allow the user to pay one monthly price and use data on their smartphone, home internet and internet stick, basically giving them the security of not going over their monthly limit while their “on the go”.
This will cause even more competition in Quebec and most likely will force all the carriers to follow. When Videotron launched their 3G, now 4G, network they also came out with an Infinite plan that ended the talk time restrictions that were previously in the province. Other carriers like Rogers, Bell, TELUS, Virgin and Koodo followed with their own “Unlimited Quebec” offering.
We’ll have more info soon.
(Thanks tipster!)
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Wow … i live in Bc and have telus internet and phone can you do that here pwease telus … pwease…. ugh why does quebec get all the good cellphone plans…
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Telus Optik 15 in BC gives me a 250 GB monthly cap
If they can bundle that over to cellular I’d be laughing my head off
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They need to start bringing this to other provinces.
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That’s the way it should be! Too bad where I live in Ontario the only company that would be able to do this would be Bell. I can get Telus internet stick but no home internet, I can get Cogeco home internet but no internet sticks or cell phone, Rogers only has cell phone in my area so that only leaves Bell with cell, home internet and mobile stick. But in typical Bell fashion I doubt they will offer this to the people of Ontario(or other provinces but Quebec for that matter).
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BRING IT ON!!
No, seriously. Bring it to Ontario.
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All I want is data only plans for my phone. Please Videotron!
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Just take the mobile stick plan.
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this is why Shaw dropping its mobile plans is so bad out west.
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The shared internet plan is quite simple, and from what i understand this is how it is: if you have an internet plan, for 6$ more you can get 500meg of wireless internet on a usbstick. http://www.videotron.com/service/internet/combo/forfait-combo-ihvm-en.jsp?promo=Accueil_0811_IHVM&locale=en
its not sharing your home internet plan with everything, its paying a little more for a limited wireless access.
Unless the thing you are talking about is something not released yet ?
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@Eric
Sometime you should read before posting a comment :
“We’ve been informed that Videotron is planning to launch…”
“We’re not sure what it will be called…”
“in the coming months Videotron…”
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Okay, now this is innovation. Things should have been this way since the beginning but because of the greed of the Big 3, they chose to segment all the data pipes and make it painful and expensive to anything.
I hope Rogers, Bell and Telus can learn that this is what customers really want.. not some convoluted data sharing plan I can only use between my phone and tablet if I pay an extra $10/month on top of the $30/month I pay to get 6GB of download usage on my phone. Oh yeah, I also have to pay them another $60/month to get 90GB of download usage for my home internet. That solution is only good for the company. No one else benefits. The customer is being bent over a barrel, the sales person who has to try and explain why it’s a good thing to be bent over the barrel, and then the customer care agent who has to listen to the client scream at how they’ve been bent over the barrel for months and are tired of it.
All that to say, I wish Videotron was in my province because they seem to actually listen to what consumers want.
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Its innovation yes, but videotron here, is like bell or rogers, they are greedy, yes their coverage map is big for quebec and everyone tries to follow them here, but that is because they are only in quebec, and don’t care of other provinces in canada….. also using a videotron phone, get out of quebec, and expect a big big roaming bill like if you were with wind or mobilicity anyways my 2 cents
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But no! Montreal is a socialist paradise! We cannot have such things in the rest of Canada.
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Calm down people, let’s wait and see the fine print. Think about it for a minute. A huge bucket of data that can be split between home, wireless and stick… Unplug home (who cares, most smartphones have wifi broadcast capability) and keep the huge bucket for wireless and stick. I would be strongly surprised if Videotron would be willing to take a risk to have users start using these huge buckets of data on their wireless networks. It would clog their network. Not sure Rogers would be too happy to dance with them (their roaming partner) with such a plan. Bottom line, there will be a fine print.
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I actually own a Videtron phone and you can not roam data
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I’ve always figured it’d come to this. At the end of the day I want 1 wireline connection service and 1 wireless connection service. I could even be allowed to share between those two plans in a perfect world. From there on it’s just OTT services.
.In A Perfect World.
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As great as this may seem, it’s ridiculous to have such a low cap on home internet.
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Well with the Spectrum from the old tv gone they could use it for WIFI, its been proven possible in the past .
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I love living in Atlantic Canada, 20 gig throughput and no cap , digital TV and home phone for 99 bucks… and no contract… I can’t believe the prices you guys are paying in Upper Canada… with caps…
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Should have been like this from the start.
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I hope they’ll launch it soon
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now…
if only they had a reasonable choice of phones…
their selection sucks big time!
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IF that happens, and that was a big if, then I’d think about switching over. I have 120GB cap with them, usually using between 80 and 110. So I’d have more than “unlimited” for my phone. I’m pretty sure that there will be a fine print with restrictions somewhere (just like ‘bozo’ said above)
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Woop! I’m not a subscriber, but even if the prices suck I like the new format. This can only be a good thing.
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@Mark: It’s not socialist, it’s actually a pretty good example of the free-market
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They will average the cost over all the devices – and it’s likely that you still use home internet for your largest % of use, so it will actually cost you more. Great way to increase revenue and deliver a service consumers want.
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