Carriers often come out with promos to sway a customer to sign up for a long 3-year contract. We’ve seen this happen over the past several years. The recent trend is to offer up Canadian long distance and some sort of data bucket, usually between 3-5GB. Well, way up north in Thunder Bay regional carrier [...]
You think competition is heated in the central parts of Ontario, Quebec, or B.C.? How about the rolling city of Thunder Bay, Ontario? According to the Canada 2011 Census there’s only 108,359 residents and you bet everyone of them counts when adding up carrier subscriber numbers. Bell has started a campaign to woo people away [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Note is heading to Thunder Bay and surrounding areas, courtesy of the partnership between tbaytel and Rogers. Taking a look at this internal doc shows all the specs and pricing that we’re used to seeing with the Note, but one glaring omission is LTE. Currently tbaytel only has HSPA+ 4G speeds that’ll [...]
Tbaytel has a network sharing agreement with Rogers which makes them receive the latest handsets in a very timely manner. The Northern Ontario-based company recently released the Motorola RAZR and now have made the Samsung Galaxy Nexus available. The price is currently set at $99.99 on a 3-year and if you’re thinking about scoring this [...]
For our readers who are customers on regional carrier Tbaytel you might experience some downtime next week. The company has posted a note on their site that shows they are improving their 4G HSPA+ network. According to the internal doc we received it states that “there will be improved call quality, increased capacity allowing faster [...]
Northern Ontario based Tbaytel has joined other carriers by renaming their 3G network to “4G”. They network share with Rogers and their 4G HSPA+ network is simply a name change that Don Campbell, President & CEO Tbaytel, states is “for consumers to accurately compare Tbaytel’s network to those of other carriers, it is important for [...]
The Nexus S is one of the first smartphones to be widely available across multiple carriers, thus creating a price war. The 3-year contract price ranges from $99.99 to $149.99 depending on who you get it from. In addition, the no-term pricing is the most heated from a low $425 to $525. We’ve forgotten to [...]
Right on schedule… Tbaytel has gone live and has started to offer a whole slew of HSPA devices (thanks to Rogers). You can check them out here at their site but below is a complete list of their offerings (Smartphones, Cellphone and Internet sticks): Acer Liquid, Apple iPhone 4 16GB or 32GB), Blackberry 9100 Pearl, [...]
If you’re up in the Thunder Bay area then you’ll be thrilled to know that TBayTel will be going live with their HSPA network on November 15th. Their HSPA nework will expand through Norther Ontario and be completed December 2011). More importantly they will carry about 29 new devices (thanks to Rogers) that include the [...]