[kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers

Wed Jun 10 19:08:17 EDT 2015

With my wife using the phone bbm is a better option than text messaging. But I have used voip.ms texting service too, it converts the text to an email so not as convenient.. You do have a phone number associated with a data only plan. I never give it out and don’t answer the phone if the tbaytel number rings as that costs about .40/minute if you used the phone

From: Khalid Baheyeldin 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:53 PM
To: KWLUG discussion 
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers

The only downside of using tbaytel + voip, is that there is no SMS in that solution (there is, but it is not as cheap as $100 a year). 

Perhaps those needing SMS can buy a dual-SIM phone, and use one SIM for text and the other (tbaytel) for voip and data.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Herman Gruetzmacher <hgruetzmacher at gmail.com> wrote:

  I dealt with a dealer called Teleco in Thunderbay who was willing to mail me a SIM card. I had to email a scan of my drivers license plus send them a credit card number to charge the SIM card and shipping too. The cost for the Sim card plus shipping card and taxes added about $45 to the up front cost. Took a few weeks for the card to show up in the mail. Below is who I dealt with

  Ashley Sdao, Retail Sales Consultant
  E‑mail: ashley.sdao at teleco.ca Web: teleco.ca
  Main: (807) 345‑2900
  Fax: (807) 345‑4539
  TELECO ‑ WE HEAR YOU Twitter Facebook YouTube

  -----Original Message----- From: Jason Locklin
  Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:02 PM
  To: KWLUG discussion 

  Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers

  Silly question Herman, did you go to Thunder Bay to buy that phone+plan?
  They don't seem to have shipping information or any sort of web
  storefront. I'll call them up to see, but wondering what you did. -Jason

  On 04/06/15 05:41 PM, Herman Gruetzmacher wrote:

    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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