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Update: Fido launches its own 6GB plan for $60, comes with 300 daytime minutes

By on July 24, 2012 at 1:46pm in Mobile News

Fido is set to launch its own 6GB plan, as seems to be the industry standard these days. Many of the plans offered by the likes of Rogers, TELUS, Koodo et al hew closely to the general 6GB/200-300 daytime minutes, and Fido’s offering is almost identical.

The $60 plan, which is available today with or without a contract to BlackBerry or smartphone users, is as follows:

- 300 Daytime (local)
- Evenings/Weekends starting at 5pm
- Unlimited incoming calls
- Unlimited international SMS (no MMS)
- 6GB data included

Doesn’t look like voicemail or call display are included, which on Fido equals another $11.

What do you think? Does this look like a good deal for new or existing Fido customers? The deal is available until August 7th, though we wouldn’t be surprised to see plans like these become standard throughout the industry at some point in the future.

Update: We’ve been updated that the plan is only for existing customers, not new customers. Here’s the word: “Please note that the $60 6GB Competitive Match Plan that was communicated in IQ this morning is NOT available in store. The plan is only available through Retention and was created for existing customers and is not available for new activations.”

(Thanks tipster!)

  • m82a1

    telus has the better plan, since they include voicemail and call display.

    • Rucker

      This is the best plan. I know. I’m a dog. Trust me.

    • jack

      if telus is still 65, fido would be 66.

      telus give the crappy value pack (caller id + voice mail 3), which mean you’ll have caller id but your voice mail box only can hold 3 messages.

      fido has the exact same value pack for 6 bucks. so a dollar more, 100 more weekday minutes, 1 hour earlier on evenings. no nationwide family calling and no my 10 though.

    • jack

      oh and you also get incoming calls with fido

    • Ryan

      Telus also includes 10 fav numbers.

    • Theywillbepissed

      $11 for CD and Voicemail? That’s ridiculously overpriced (although I’m sure most other carriers aren’t much better)

  • michal harms

    First!
    I’ll go with the koodo one…

  • John z

    Pretty good plan BUT i would love to see at least Call display included or Voicemail. What is up with all the bigger carriers not offering this? Its making them look weak & worse by not offering something better then the other carriers…

    For one i am tired of seeing them take the same thing another carrier has but put something small like !00 more minutes or such.

    Anyways i am sure if you go with Fido they have a better customer service then their bigger brother Rogers so i am sure after 2-3 months or even when you sign up you might get a discount.

  • Old Plans Coming Back

    These plans will not become the standard. After first week of August, all the carriers will revert to the old ways after realizing the blood bath that Rogers created.

  • Vengefulspirit99

    Bell has the best

  • Rio

    It is very interisting that these companies stopped offering just the 6GB for 30$.

    That was MUCH more value to the customers. I dont want a 60$ plan without CID and VM. I have a cheap talk and text plan with CD and VM since I dont talk much and I added the 6GB plan on top.

  • BigC_13

    Fido has their voicemail lite bundle for $6 that has call display and voicemail 3,same as Telus for $1 more ($66 total) you get more minutes and unlimited incoming calls.

    • Beso

      yea but still no LD or Canada Wide min!

  • dimsum

    Lets be honest here…it blows my mind that anyone here would say a plan by Bell/Rogers/Telus is better…if anyone that has actually been following the site for the past couple weeks, you’ll know that KOODO has the best plan. Canada wide minutes and most importantly it’s cheaper than all the other providers. $60 that includes Caller ID and Voicemail.

  • jack

    they need 2 versions, this and cityfido+6gb imo

  • jack

    only took them a week to come up with this, i could have came up with this in 5 minutes

  • Steve

    I’ll be switching to the Koodo 6GB plan from Fido. Unfortunately this plan just isn’t competitive with the others.

  • General Zod

    There’s no favorite 10 on this plan (which to me means there isn’t any long distance included). I’d gladly give up 100 anytime minutes for the fav10 to be included. This looks very similar to Virgin Mobile’s plan (which also doesn’t have fav10 included). With my experience with virgin mobile it’s easy to get them to toss in call display/voicemail for free (when you buy a new phone). I’m not sure how hard that is with fido?

    I’m on Virgin Mobile. If they had offered Bell’s version of the plan I would of switch. 200 mins + Fav10 is better than 300 minutes and no fav10.

  • Apple Sales Guy

    This plan would go great with an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4s.

  • Beso

    Koodo has the best plan …. as the Fido’s plan is not Canada Wide and has no LD included nor CID/VM

  • Rick

    Koodo all the way!

  • Andrew

    koodo is miles ahead of the other plans.

  • Mac

    what is with carriers and not including caller id? It cost them nothing. I understand charging for voicemail because of the server costs, but caller id does really incur them any extra expenses?

  • Nick

    So all of a sudden everybody comes out with $60 plans with 6GB included, and we’re supposed to believe there’s no collusion in the mobile market?

    • Stone

      If one carrier begins offering a rate plan at lower prices and more value than they had previously and the other carriers make changes to offer similarly lower priced alternatives with some differentiators (mobile tv, cd/vm, ld), is that collusion or competition?

  • Bobby

    I’ll stick with the Koodo plan which includes nationwide mins and cll id , vm. !

  • Really???

    And with fido…. NO LTE… yet :(

  • Nathen

    They are ALL ridiculous.
    I can NOT believe you people are discussing this BS.

    Canadians KEEP getting ripped in this country.

  • SkyDome

    It must be hard being Rogers/Fido marketing person, how to market less value for more money?

  • Joey_G_1975

    I have to agree – Koodo appears to have the better plan. Between Fido and Rogers – not sure who has the better plan?

  • JG

    yeah………… Rogers did not make good profit last quarter.SUCKERS……….

  • metoo

    Compared to the competition, this is right down at the bottom of the list. Koodo is far better. Bell is better and cheaper if you BBYP. Virgin and Rogers are the only one’s as bad as this.

    Fido: pay more, get less.

  • alex

    not compatible with EPP… but good for costumer.

  • davidm

    you know what would be neat? If people would organize to get the best deal. This whole system of some people getting great plans, others getting ripped off, and the massive confusion and frustration is a nightmare. If people organized, maybe the carriers would react, otherwise we’re working against each other.

    The best way to do this would be to cluster people around contract renewal dates, and specify that everyone will switch to a plan that includes a HUP, 6GB LTE, unlimited Canada + US text+calling + 100 minutes/messages international, caller ID, for say $65/month. Most of these options cost the carriers very little, and it would at least be less laughable compared to plans offered in other countries.

  • Wind Mobile is still the best

    Wind mobile is still the way to go :) and then Koodo.

    Their service , reception and coverage has improved a lot since inception.

    Stay away from Rogers and Bell and their sister bands as much as you can. :(

    Koodo is probably the most decent thing among the Big 3.

  • Nathen

    Well Well look at that , after all the POSTS of how decent this plan is and how it is not so bad or could be better….

    “The plan is only available through Retention and was created for existing customers”
    LMAO…

  • Mike

    I used to like Fido. Stuck with them for 10 years. Then they said they were gonna charge me $25 (or was it $30? don’t remember) for using my Fido Dollars to cover “admin costs.”

    Fido, if you need $25 admin costs to deduct money from my Fido Dollars balance, you’re paying your admin person too much.

  • Paz

    Bell got the best deal at 60+7$ call display voice mail and if you combined with an extra Bell service -4$ bell bundle for a total of 63$

  • JustMeAndMe

    does really someone pay this amount of money for a data plan?

  • Ron Mexico

    Friend, jump to Koodo. Infinitely better network, better plan, better customer service. Win, win, win.

  • Jim R

    They want you to take a 3 year contract – is there really that much to think about?

  • julieet

    Freinds…..fido n rogers r rip off…..why cant they offer canadwide free roaming n only koodo is offering.The only thing in mind comes they know there customer are fool and will with name of Roger n fido will pay extra also. So i think instead of commenting on anybody just check urself if u r wid fido n rogers , and plan urself to move to koodo then only thy will realize wht damage is done to them.

  • jon

    Koodo plan is better and IMO on a better network. I’ve had better experience with Bell/Telus network that Koodo uses than the Rogers network that Fido uses. YMMV.

  • 2c

    a big LAWL, all around the world carrier provide caller id free and Canadians still pay for it.

    go to wind and forget your worries.

  • jack

    FML Fido…Retention only?? You gotta be shitting me!!

  • jack

    I am so disappointed.

  • KC

    I just called Fido and the person I spoke with said that they aren’t offering the $60 plan mentioned in this article. Has anyone here tried contacting Fido to see if they can get this plan?

    • KC

      Nevermind, I originally spoke to a sales rep who wasn’t aware of this promotion. It’s legit and a good deal for Fido customers!

  • Mike

    I can’t believe people here are comparing Telus’ crappy plan to Fido’s Shit Plan. LOL Wake up people, don’t cha all know that you’re paying way too much ?

    Unlimited Voice
    Call Display
    Unlimited Data
    Unlimted Text

    All for $25 bucks with Mobilicity.

    I also bought a brand new Sony Xperia X10 from them for $200 (no contract)
    I runs Android Gingerbread. Great Phone.

    • Ron Mexico

      Nice, so you bought a 2 year old phone for $200, and now you’re using on the crappiest network in Canada for $25/month?

      P.S How is the coverage in Oakville, Kitchener, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Whistler, Barrie, Newmarket, Stratford, London, I could go on….

      You’re getting what you pay for that is certain

  • metoo

    You should feel like they could have at least used lube.

  • candy287

    is this 4g or/and lte connection speed.

    • @kwongie

      it’s 3G, and roaming on LTE when the service is available, however Fido does’t offer any 4G LTE phones anyways.

  • ToniCipriani

    It’s sad to see what Rogers keeps doing to the poor old dog. They should just euthanize it.

  • Lewis Nguyen

    I actually got an SMS from Fido yesterday telling me they had a limited offer for me. Turns out it was just to tell me that I could upgrade my phone. I asked them about the 6GB plan though and the rep said that it will be available in August and that he can’t give it to me now and told me to call back in August.

  • jack

    guess i wont be able to feed my family this month. thanks fido for making absolutely no attempts at attracting customers and leaving all your sale reps struggling for sales!

  • GreenManiac

    I’m a long time Fido client and I’ve dealt a pretty tight plan using lots of patience. I’m paying 65$ for unlimited calls all the time, voicemail, callwaiting, callerid, unlimited text, 6gb data.

    If you already have their 35$ unlimited plan, you can ask for a 30$ / 6gb data plan. They won’t do it at first, but then ask them to transfer you to retention. Tell them all your friends pay 30$ for 6gb and eventually with patience they’ll give it to you if you’re a long time customer and play your card right. Did that a year and a half ago.

  • Darren

    Ok.
    Just called retentions and said I was leaving Fido.
    They offered me the current $60 plan plus caller id for only $4 for next 2 years of contract.

    I was on a $35 unlimited plan with $25 500mb data and caller id included.

    So only paying $4 more per month for more minutes and 6gb data and id now. Good deal?