TELUS promo plans bring unlimited nationwide calling to customers in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada

TELUS is offering some nice promo plans today until November 30th for Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada customers. Last week we told you that its new plans distinguished themselves based on data pool, but the bottom two plans, priced at $70 and $80, only included unlimited local calling, whereas the $100 plan allowed users to call nationwide.

From now until November 30th, TELUS is altering those cheaper two plans to include unlimited nationwide calling. These are for new and renewing customers in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada; customers in other provinces have not been affected. So now they look like this:

Local Talk & Text – 1GB Share – $70/month
– Unlimited Nationwide Anytime Minutes
– 1GB data (Canada-only), shareable
– Unlimited outgoing and incoming text, picture and video messaging
– Unlimited Nationwide Family Calling, Caller ID, VM, Call Waiting & Conference Calling

Local Talk & Text – 3GB Share – $80/month
– Unlimited Nationwide Anytime Minutes
– 3GB data (Canada-only), shareable
– Unlimited outgoing and incoming text, picture and video messaging
– Unlimited Nationwide Family Calling, Caller ID, VM, Call Waiting & Conference Calling

Nationwide Talk & Text – 5GB Share – $100/month
– Unlimited Nationwide Anytime Minutes
– 5GB data (Canada-only), shareable
– Unlimited outgoing and incoming text, picture and video messaging
– Unlimited Nationwide Family Calling, Caller ID, VM, Call Waiting & Conference Calling

While these prices are notionally more expensive than their Bell and Rogers equivalents, TELUS provides caller ID and three-message voicemail in their plans, which cost a separate monthly fee on the other incumbents.

All three carriers announced unlimited voice and data plans recently, drastically simplifying their traditionally-convoluted price plans. But Bell charges an extra $10/month for unlimited nationwide calling on their two cheaper plans, as well as $7/month minimum for call display and voicemail. An extra $5 will get you a larger pool for your voicemails, and for $20/month you can 10 hours of Mobile TV data.

Rogers charges minimum $12.79 for call display and voicemail, but it defaults to the more premium Visual Voicemail package. It also includes 100 international text messages, something that neither Bell nor TELUS provides in their value packs.

So it would seem that, among the Big Three, TELUS has possibly the best deals right now for new or existing customers. Note that they have also done away with the device activation or renewal fee, for which Bell and Rogers still charge $35.

Considering both WIND and Mobilicity are tendering huge discounts to their plans for the holidays, it’s a tough call for consumers these days; it all depends on which phone, and the speed of service, each customer needs.

So what do you think? Is TELUS making these new plans more palatable?