[kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers

[Herman Gruetzmacher]

I setup the plan Dec 24th and have had a difficult time using my 20gb of 
data. I still have 18.5gb left. Mind you I do use wifi at home so it isn't 
drawing down from my plan. I would have gone with a smaller plan like you 
describe but they expire sooner. If I could get a plan for 5gb it would 
probably last for a year if it were for voip only. Guess it depends how much 
you use the phone. Right now it is in my wife's hands and she hardly touches 
it

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jason Locklin
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 2:03 PM
To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers

How do you find this works out, Herman? Considering doing this as well,
or a split ($100 top-up, but $55 going to 10GB data, just so I can still
be reachable if the voip goes down for some reason). Do you find that
maintaining the connection to voip.ms eats up much of the data?

On 03/06/15 06:09 AM, Herman Gruetzmacher wrote:
> If you are looking at cheap data I would recommend tbaytel. I pay $100
> for 1 year of prepaid access for 20gb of data. Basically you roam on
> Rogers across Canada but only at 4g speeds which is fast enough for me.
> I then use voip.ms for my telephone provide which is $0.85/month so not
> using tbaytel phone service just data
> Herman
> *From:* Darcy Casselman <mailto:dscassel at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:53 AM
> *To:* KWLUG discussion <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers
> Laurelwood coverage is better, now that they have a tower near the
> Boardwalk.
>
> Wind also now has a cheap "Wind Away" coverage.  Which is kind of
> roaming, but with rates that are comparable to a pay as you go: 15¢/min,
> 5¢/text, and 5¢/MB.  "Wind Away" is no longer considered roaming, which
> kind of sucks in some ways, because I've occasionally ended up in an
> Away zone while in a building in a less-good coverage area (namely,
> work).  So I've turned off things like podcast downloading and photo
> uploading on mobile data.  But it does mean if I need to check data
> while I'm home in Belleville or something, I know my bill isn't going to
> be exorbitant.
>
> I recommend it.  Wind isn't the fastest or the broadest (coverage), but
> it's almost certainly the cheapest, especially if you use data.
>
> Darcy.
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com
> <mailto:kb at 2bits.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com
>     <mailto:bjonkman at sobac.com>> wrote:
>
>         > I know Bob uses Wind for the unlimited data but has 
> poorcoverage.
>
>         To be clear, I only have poor coverage from Wind where I live,
>         in Emira. Coverage in KW and TO is fine.
>
>     Not all of KW. The Laurelwood area in north west Waterloo has bad
>     coverage.
>
>     Also, when you are outside metro areas, e.g. the shores of lake
>     Huron and Erie, you are "roaming", and pay per minute.
>
>     Apart from that, Wind Mobile is really good. My daughters had/have it.
>
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