Last week we posted info that Rogers was planning on releasing new “Simplified Pricing with unlimited talk, text and internet” plans. Well, it’s real. Very real. You’re not dreaming. We’ve been informed that Rogers will be transitioning away from the plethora of confusing and convoluted plans to a new monthly pricing structure on November 7th. Apparently customers can opt-in to these plans, but it’s not mandatory to change what you currently have.
Seven new plans have been carefully constructed, which is downsized from the 12 they had in the Summer. So it seems they’ve decided to clean things up and will make it easier for customers to understand exactly what’s included and not included in their monthly bill.
Three plans are simply talk and text for basic users. Probably a good strategy as voice usage has been declining and internet usage, mainly caused by the adoption of smartphones, has been rising ever month (online video, surfing the web, email, TV). This focus on “internet,” previously known as data, is the direction Rogers is heading towards as they’ve eloquently branded four of the 7 plans: Occasional, Social, Streamer and Connected. Below are the complete plan details, plus pricing:
Talk and Text Plans:
$27/month:
– 150 local weekday minutes
– Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messaging
– Unlimited Evenings & Weekends
– Unlimited Canada wide calling from your computer (Rogers One Number)
$37/month:
– 1,000 local weekday minutes
– Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messaging
– Unlimited Evenings & Weekends
– Unlimited Canada wide calling from your computer (Rogers One Number)
$45/month:
– 1,000 local weekday minutes
– Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messaging
– Unlimited Evenings & Weekends
– Unlimited Canada wide calling from your computer (Rogers One Number)
– 100MB data
Talk, Text and Internet Plans:
“Occasional” $55/month
– 1,000 Weekday minutes
– Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messaging
– 200MB Wireless Internet (Overage is $15/GB)
– Available on Monthly and 3-year terms
– Can be shared and includes LTE
“Social” $65/month
– Unlimited Local Talk
– Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messaging
– 1GB Wireless Internet (Overage is $15/GB)
– Available on Monthly and 3-year terms
– Can be shared and includes LTE
“Streamer” $75/month:
– Unlimited Local Talk
– Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messaging
– 3GB Wireless Internet (Overage is $15/GB)
– Available on Monthly and 3-year terms
– Can be shared and includes LTE
“Connected” $95/month
– Unlimited Canadian Long Distance
– Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messaging
– 5GB Wireless Internet (Overage is $10/GB)
– Available on Monthly and 3-year terms
– Can be shared and includes LTE
The Call Display and Voice Mail are included in the value packs and start off at $12.79/month. In addition, if you want to make the local calling national calling it’s $10 extra per month.
This isn’t the first time a Canadian carrier has offered “unlimited” plans. The new carriers like WIND, Mobilicity and Public Mobile have been doing this for a couple years now, but this new “Internet focussed” direction that Rogers is forging is another “first” for the Big 3 carriers. It’ll be interesting to see how Bell and TELUS respond.
We’ll have more on this soon…
(Thanks tipster!)
Source: Rogers Data Calculator
Via: AndroidCentral
