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Rogers announces that “all Voice & Data plans are now available on monthly terms”
Sometimes carriers rope new customers in by offering them a great monthly voice and data plan, usually this comes at a cost of signing up on a 3-year contract. Straight from the internal doc above, Rogers says that “customers can now bring their own device and activate on one of our great voice and data plans without committing to a 3-year term.” So now you can sign up on a month-to-month plan without the long term baggage.
(Thanks tipster!)
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Those don’t look like “great voice and data plans”
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1. Get kicked in the butt with bills in a 3 year contract
2. 3 years later, retentions
Realistically, its the only way to save in Canada if you are not in main cities/traveling a lot (Wind/Mobilicity would be too expensive in the long run)
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I 100% have to agree student. That is honestly the only way to get a good plan unless you have access to corporate plans.
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I will still not go for Robbers and I agree with Sean!!!
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Those just look like the standard plans from roger’s website. Nice try Rogers
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It does not make any sense. Somebody get a subsidy from Rogers of a phone of $450, on a 3 year term and join their “great” plan. While someone just bring their own unlocked phone, without subsidy, paying the same monthly price and locked by a 3 year term? We are missing $450 dollars here!
Why do we need any commitment to join any plans without a subsidy? Unless the plan itself is heavily discounted by at least 30%.
Rogers’ $30 6GB plan is also lame since a term is needed!
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The option is now avail without the commitment
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Rogers finally noticed people leaving to cheaper alternatives like Wind and Mobilicity. I was with them 12 years and they never even offered me free text messaging or any kind of credit. When i called to cancel, for Mobi, their offer was a plan 2 times more expensive than what i was already paying them!
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With the plans the big 3 and their minis are offering vs Wind and Mobilicity; you have to be crazy to sign on a 3 yr, when you can see that there is finally some competition in Canada ( if you don’t travel much out of the main urban areas).
$60 min per month the big3 and their mini3 vs $40 on Wind/Mobi ($20 *36=$720) so you can bring your phone and still save $ sell it one or even 2 yrs later for $100 bucks and you will be able to get two phones in 3 yrs and pay less.
This is just one scenario, but when people start doing things like this the 3 yr cons will be more and more irrelevant.
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MIJ – You are correct. Nobody should sign any contracts just because of a plan or any feature like unlimited CDN long distance or 6GB of data.
Competition will be even hotter when finally AWS and 700 are used for LTE. When the newbies move to LTE, their handset selection will be at par of the big three and this will be a game changer. 2012 rules!
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I wish Wind and Mobilicity would hurry up and expand to southern Ont
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i wish ROGERS would properly support southern ontario. i finally got a good retentions plan on rogers but the number of missed or disconnected calls i get in my house and around town is absolutely pathetic. rogers is only well supported from toronto up to newmarket, if you are north of there you are screwed. meanwhile bell supports the area perfectly fine. i wish i could switch and keep my plan.
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Telus has been allowing anyone to sign up for any of their plans (even promotional) for M2M/1/2/3year term, back from October
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Rogers’ Plan still stinks. Let’s just compare similar plan:
Rogers’ $62.35 HSPA plan – 200 weekday minutes, unlimited evening @ 9pm, 500MB of data and just say you can MY5 as an additional feature.
Koodo / Virgin ($55) – City Koodo / Virgin offers unlimited local talk and messages, no zone ($35) + 1GB data ($20).
Clearly, you can a lot more from Telus and Bell’s sub brand than Roger’s “wonderful” plan.
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Actually Bell is offering atm : 60$ = 200 min – Nights and weekends starting at 6pm – Free texting photos and videos – Top 10 nation wide numbers – 1go – Facebook-Twitter-Myspace unlimited + first month free + 50$ credit on any phone and you can take them on a 30 since September.
It’s not juste Bell’s and Telus subs its simply that Rogers are always a little bit more expensive and less attractive!
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wtf every carrier offers month to month plans? Atleast bell and virgin do, with bell offering their fab10 plans $10 cheaper if you go month to month….sigh. rogers.
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True. So the one at 60$ is 50$ if you come with your phone. Same thing on all their plans if you have the other services they offer..you get a 10$ discount per month
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ummm…. since when have you NOT been able to go on monthly plans when you bring your own phone?? Contracts are offered for when people need to get a new phone, so I’m failing to see how this is anything different than always.
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It’s different because if you choose to do month to month before, you could never sign up for any special Backtoschool or 6Gb data type plans. All of them require a contract. 6GB data requires 3 years data commitment and hefty Data Early Cancellation Fees if you cancel that’s on top of your regular voice plan ECF.
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There should be commitment free for joining plans. Period.
The best move I ever made is jumping ship to Koodo’s data saver plan. 3GB for $30. I at most used less 700MB and my cost is only $20.
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Rogers’ plan is really out of date! You got to be out of your mind to sign a 3 year contract these days.
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Not only Rogers stinks, Fido barks as well!
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Hopefully they will also eliminate locking you into contracts when making changes to your plan when you’re already month-to-month. Being bound to a new 3 year contract (without any hardware upgrade) just to add an option to a month to month plan like they do now is horrible.
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No Exynos based GS2 for AWS devices…
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Rogers cannot and will never be able to compete with the new entrants on price plans.
Rogers is established, has higher end options but you pay through the nose no matter what you do. You are also treated like diseased livestock when you deal with them.
New entrants may not have the rural connectivity and are shut out of getting the latest phones upon release but their quality is on par with the Big three in the city centers where they are located and the price is about 1/3 of what Rogers is. Their technology level is not as advanced as Rogers either (LTE, Video on Demand.. etc..).
I’m not a big TV guy so I really don’t have a need to pay $400+/month for TV/Internet/Cell phone. Instead I use TekSavvy for $42.95/month and Wind for $40/month and with all the money I save every month, I typically buy a new smartphone every year and I’m still ahead of where I would have been if I had stayed with Rogers. Their biggest weapon is the fear, uncertainty and doubt they spread (which are 99% lies). People get scared and stay with what they know. I’ve converted 5 people to Wind so far and not one complaint from them.
They always say “Why isn’t everyone switching over?”. Beats me really.
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This is still dumb, not being on contract should cost even less because your device isn’t subsidized.
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I finally had the gutts to stick it to Rogers” ugly child – Fido and switch to Mobilicity and can not tell you how good it feels to be FINALLY free of paying a pretty penny for literary nothing. Now I have a an all inclusive plan for the total of $45.20 taxes included. Yes it is not a nation-wide network coverage and yes, it is a new company but it totally works for me. I am rarely out of the coverage zone and the roaming is only 20 cents per minutes anywhere in North America, comparing to 35 cents per minute with Fido. The signal strength is great too. The big three are getting desperate and use all kinds of scare tactics when customers want to change the provider. I’m glad I didn’t fall for that BS.
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Im sorry but Rogers is so out of date with their pricing/packages that unless you get some kind of corporate kickback, their offers are just pure ludicrous. Even if you take new entrants out of the equation, companies like Koodo and Virgin stick it to them so hard its laughable. Heck, they’re the only ones on the block still charging an access fee. When confronted about that their response was “its used to keep things 100% Canadian”. A service rep actually told me that on the phone the other day when i joked about it while discussing my Cable TV package. I cant believe their own employees drink the Kool-Aid that much. Heck, on a 60$ Combo plan you can get 1GB of data at the very least, Rogers is still on about 500MB at that price. Not to mention their network suffers in comparison to Bell and Telus. With basic Voice Only plans starting at 30$ WITHOUT Call Display and Voicemail as an option, it goes to show how out of touch Rogers is with the modern day wireless consumer.
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who woould want that ?
ppl need to start leaving the big three, we have two perfectly fine carriers who have ulmtmd everythingg
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WIND AND MOBI ALL DAY !!
WTF 50$ ??? thats so much and probably no call id !! and only 500mb ? rogers piss me off
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In UK, new mobile entrant Three.co.uk offers 300 minutes voice, 3000 text and unlimited/tetherable 3G data for GBP 15 per month .. which is about CAD $25. The coverage is rock solid and throughout UK. Oh, did i mention this is Pay as you go? The SIM costs GBP 1.99 (about CAD 4). Long distance calls from UK to Canada is CAD 6 cents per minute.
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Raping one sucker at a time
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