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Mobilicity continues monthly rate plan discounts, offers up free data
Mobilicity holiday deals and plans just ended, but today they have announced yet another discounted promo. It’s not as good as the promo of days past, but still worth considering as the Galaxy Nexus is coming soon. Basically they are giving you free data with their unlimited talk and text plans, plus throwing in a $50 port-in credit. If you sign up on their $45 talk and text plan you’ll score unlimited free data ($10/month savings). Then, for those interested in the $35 unlimited talk-and-text plan, you’ll get free email and Social Data (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+ and LinkedIn). In addition, the $25 unlimited talk-and-text plan will also give you free Social Data.
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Not as good as the $25 back to school plan which I currently have, but still better than their stock plans without the data. The $45/month plan, while not as good as the $40/month holiday plan, is still cheaper than plans with the Big 3 and you get a lot more.
I think most heavy users would still opt for the $45 plan.
Now, the bigger question instead of these discounted plans while they are great, more towers would be even better =)!
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dat mobilicity promos.
always new stuff runnin’
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what was the best offer they ever had? can someone explain?
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IT was 35Fnf. Basically the $40 everything plan for $35 and -2 for PAC.
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Wonder if these plans will be available when they score 700Mhz band?
That’s what alot of people r waiting for before the switch
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The problem with that data is that it’s far too slow! i used to get like 1.5MB – 1.0MB download and barely 0.60MB up…it did the job but it’s just not very fast, plus their speed depends on how many users are using it near whichever tower they are close to.
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Of course – and you know this how? I love how the WIND and big 3 fanboys make up endless rumours about Mobilicity. That tells me they’re doing better than expected. They keep saying they had the biggest Q4 of all wireless companies too. Maybe they’re right.
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Ummm. TCom, just look at Priszm. Might give you an idea if you know anything about financial stability and Mr. Bitove. I have been working with telecom for over 15 years and not as a sales representative. I think I have a little bit of an edge on you.
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Just for people’s info from Priszm Annual info. “John I. Bitove was appointed as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
the Administrator (for Priszm) on November 10, 2003 and, in April 2008, was appointed
Executive Chairman. Mr. Bitove is also the Executive Chairman of Canadian Satellite
Radio Holdings Inc., which operates XM Canada, a subscription-based satellite radio
service, the Chairman and controlling shareholder of DAVE Wireless, and the asset
and property manager of Scott’s REIT, the owner of approximately 207 retail
properties across Canada.”
Note: Just because the restaurants may be restructuring, doesn’t impact telecom businesses directly.
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Slow as molasses. In addition to the slow speed, users have reported that there is a cap on it where they cut you off of data for a few hours/days if you are watching a long video, downloading a big file, etc. Even from people who aren’t normally heavy users but needed the data as a one-off event. And it probably isn’t going to improve anytime soon.
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i can’t say too much that’s positive about this. Mobilicity doesn’t have a network as big or as reliable as WIND to justify those prices. City’s cheapest plan is $25 or (with multi-month) $20. Worse, only a few Internet sites are allowed.
City doesn’t explain to us why we should choose them instead of WIND. And yes, WIND’s network isn’t perfect, but City had a Western outrage, an infamous all-cities outage, and, more recently, a GTA outage. No compensation except for the first outage.
This whole idea of City selling tiered, TV-like Internet packages is ridiculous. $25 treats five social sites as gold, but presumably blocks everything else? $35 adds Gmail, Hotmail and Microsoft Exchange, but why are Yahoo!, POP, IMAP and SMTP left out? $45 removes all restrictions, but that’s $20 higher than the base plan.
Such pricing isn’t new, and it’s unclear whether or not apps (e.g: the Twitter app, the Gmail app, etc.) can be used. RIM also has this “only certain sites are allowed” approach:
* $0/month (with most carriers): only includes BBM and the App World; normally bundled with all SMS plans from Telus, Koodo, Bell, Virgin, etc.
* $5/month to $20/month: “BlackBerry Social”, on top of BBM/App World, unblocks Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/IM apps, but all other apps and the browser only work on Wi-Fi; this add-on is very commom, can be found on WIND, Koodo, Virgin, etc.
* $10/month to $20/month: “BlackBerry Email”, which includes BBM, the App World and the email app, but all other apps and the browser only work on Wi-Fi; not as common as the “BlackBerry Social” add-on.
* $10/month to “the sky’s the limit”/month: “BlackBerry Internet Service” with limited or unlimited usage of the full web, as long as the customer respects the network policies.
Even more interesting, City’s plans do NOT work on BlackBerry! As much as i disagree with the plans, they would make sense if priced $20/$30/$40 instead. i’d understand if they serve cities where WIND is absent (think Rogers and Bell LTE), but City’s not expanding, has had major outages, and it looks like it’s ready to leave. Too bad.
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$5 for Blackberry : BBM and One Email account.
All the current promo plans is not part of Blackberry.
Its $15 (Regular Price) for Blackberry unlimited data, no restrictions. (Same as before)
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A.K: Are you talking about the BIS add-on? Nobody told me before that it can be added for just BBM and just one email account. Mobilicity doesn’t advertise it, so i’m not sure it exists.
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Anybody know when Mobilicity last expanded their coverage?
… Me neither.
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Last time they expanded their coverage (added service towers) was December 9th in Vancouver, December 5th in Calgary and December 2nd in Toronto.
https://www.facebook.com/mobilicity
@Alex Perrier
The only reason that Mobilicity outages are so easy to cite is because they continually update their facebook page and address them unlike Wind. If you do a google search of “Wind Mobile Outages’, you’ll see that many users are hit by sporadic outages and in most cases also don’t provide compensation.
Mobilicity isn’t for everyone but a reason someone even looks at these companies is because they’re trying to be savvy consumers and if you can do a quick search and find information about outages that you cited, how hard is it for someone who is looking to save money to do a comparason between the two companies? They don’t blatently say in their advertising why you should choose one over the other but do you really need someone to spell it out for you? Both their coverage areas are easily accessible as well as their rates for different add-ons. I chose Mobilicity because their US roaming charges are cheaper than Wind. Someone might be looking for something else and Wind might be cheaper/more reliable for that function.
And what you said about them not expanding is unfair. If you actually looked, Mobilicity has been expanding at the same speed if not faster than Wind did when they launched. Look at the coverage maps and keep in mind Mobilicity came out one year after Wind. And did you think that there’s a reason why they’re serving these markets? There aren’t that many people in Canada and these the most densely populated areas which correspond to their unlimited zone strategy…not everyone can be like Videotron in Quebec.
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@Alex http://mobilicity.ca/plans/add-ons/
shows their BBM & social networking, and others.
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MySpace is still in the top 10 Social networking sites, beating out Google+, according to Nielsen:
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/nielsens-tops-of-2011-digital/
(Scroll down to the chart were MySpace is mentioned.)
According to Google’s own stats, MySpace is still in the top 100 sites worldwide, ahead of Tumblr & HuffPo. Surprisingly, Reddit is nowhere in sight:
http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
Just looking at that list and counting Social networking sites, MySpace comes in at number 5.
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Yep Blackberry Add on’s
$5 Blackberry BBM/E-Mail: BBM/ One third-party email account/
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$5 on P45: BBM/ One third-party email account/ Unlimited Data
Trust me…I know
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