[kwlug-disc] cell phone plans

[Ron Singh]

No expert here, just a tech trog, but my clan has 3 cells on Public
Mobile(discount offering from Telus essentially) --
https://publicmobile.ca/en/on/plans
We are happy with it, one member  of the family is on PetroMobility which
uses the Rogers network, but is not good value, we keep it just as a backup
in case Telus is down.
My folks use the $40 plan which drops to something like 36 bucks due to
autopay and referrals etc. We did get a promo of 6G + 500M bonus when we
signed up, so everyone one the PublicMobile thing has 6.5G of data. Today I
see it is 4.5G with 500M bonus with autopay. Perhaps a promo with more
data  will show up with "back-to-school" in Aug/Sept.

Thanks,

Ron S.



On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 12:20 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's that time of the decade when I sit down and decide that I'm paying
> waaaay too much for mine and Wifeski's cellphone plans.
>
> So I humbly beseech the experts...
>
> What are you guys using for cell phones plans?  What's the coverage like?
> Do you still have money left for food after you pay your monthly phone bill?
>
> Our situation is that Wifeski uses some data and texting, but only a wee
> bit of voice calls, whereas I only use call forwarding on my phone (to
> forward my personal calls to my work phone).  My phone literally sits on
> the charging dock 24/7, and has been there for a few years now.  Once a
> year I take it out and laugh at the scam texts I got over the year, then I
> put it back on the docking station...
>
> We are currently with Virgin Mobile.  We got Wifeski's phone on the 2-year
> contract which has long since run out.  I'm paying $106.00 plus taxes for
> what seems to be a fairly basic plan:
>
> For Wifeski:
> 500 Anytime minutes (she uses much less than that for daytime calls)
> Voicemail 3
> Unlimited evenings & wknd from 5PM
> Unlimited Incoming Text
> plus your usual call waiting/call display jazz...
> Also included is 3GB of data each month for free when we took the contract
> (I doubt she uses half of that)
>
> My plan is very basic: BYOP 45 100MB for $45/mon, I only use it for call
> forwarding to the work phone. (that $45 is part of the grand total $106..
> the $106 was a hell of a lot less when we started on this plan, as you can
> imagine...)
>
> What do you guys suggest?  Obviously we could scale back to a smaller plan
> for Wifeski as she isn't a big user of voice or data, so that's an
> option..  I really only care that the reception is good out in the country
> (as we're more likely to be in the Back 40 than the city), and that it's
> not Bell (some of you have heard of my hatred for Bell..)
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!!
>
>
>
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