SaskTel is hopping on the train of promoting holiday unlimited plans. Effective November 20th they’ll release the “SaskTel Ultimate $65.” As you’d expect it’s $65/month and comes with all the fixings: – Unlimited minutes – Unlimited texts – 150 long distance minutes (Canada to anywhere in North America) – Unlimited calling to all SaskTel customers [...]
SaskTel was at one time a struggling regional carrier who was consistently late to launch the newest handsets. Now, they are muscling their way in and coming out with desired smartphones at the same time, or within a week, of Rogers, Bell or TELUS. According to their website they’ve now listed three new devices as [...]
The LG Optimus G is coming to Canada “early November” and will be packing a 1.5GHz quad-core processor. In their press release they noted the carriers will be Bell, Rogers and TELUS. Rogers has already started to take pre-orders for the Android – even priced it at $129.99 on a 3-year and $599.99 on a [...]
Similar to Bell and Virgin Mobile, SaskTel is on deck to release the Samsung Galaxy S III in “Garnet Red.” According to the internal doc we received shows the planned launch date to happen one-day next week – the price of the GS III stays the same, currently $99.99 on a 3-year, and it’ll only [...]
Mediacorp Canada unveiled Canada’s Top 100 Employers. Since we specifically cover the mobile industry in Canada – both carriers and manufacturers – I skimmed through the list and found only two companies to be honoured with this award, TELUS and SaskTel. Clearly missing this year are Rogers, Bell, and RIM. To make the list Mediacorp [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Note II will be coming to Canada on basically every carrier: Bell, TELUS, WIND, Rogers, Mobilicity, Videotron and SaskTel. Samsung stated “this fall” and that probably means very early November. While the price of the 5.5-inch phone/tablet is still a mystery, some carriers have officially placed this as “coming soon.” TELUS was [...]
Today is a good day for those SaskTel or MTS customers who’ve been waiting for the iPhone 5 to arrive. Just 1-week after it officially launched last week, the Saskatchewan and Manitoba regional carriers are quick to release it. Much praise can be given to the build out of their HSPA+ or in MTS’ case [...]
SaskTel has sweetened their pot today and announced that they’ve axed all data roaming charges in Canada, which actually is a giant step for the regional carriers – potentially no more nasty bills. In a press release today they noted that “Effective today, SaskTel will be eliminating all data roaming charges in Canada. In addition, [...]
During Apple’s iPhone 5 keynote on Wednesday it was revealed that the Canadian carriers of choice to launch the LTE-enabled device would be Rogers, Bell, TELUS, Fido, Virgin and Koodo Moible. There wasn’t an indication of other carriers joining the mix. However, taking a peak over at regional carriers MTS (Manitoba), and SaskTel (Saskatchewan) show [...]
SaskTel will be going live with their LTE network sometime later this year, but that didn’t stop them from releasing an LTE-capable device. Back in May they launched the Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE and similar to Bell, SaskTel customers will be able to upgrade to Android OS 4.0.4 today. Go forth and check [...]