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<p>Wife and kids use Lucky Mobile (mine is covered by work) --
$25/month for unlimited Canada-wide calling, 1GB of ~3mbps data,
unlimited @ 128kbps (totally fine for streaming music or
email/chat/VOIP calls/slower web browsing/maps).
Voicemail/CallerID/global texting/etc included. Lucky runs on
Bell's network. They have a $35 plan that gives you 3 or 4GB of
data too I think. $40 for 5GB iirc.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-05-29 12:19 p.m.,
CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>So I humbly beseech the experts...</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>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...</div>
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<div>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 <span class="gmail-bill-overview"><span
class="gmail-floatR"><span class="gmail-fiancialNumber"><span>$106.00
plus taxes for what seems to be a fairly basic plan:
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<div><span class="gmail-bill-overview"><span
class="gmail-floatR"><span class="gmail-fiancialNumber"><span><br>
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="gmail-bill-overview"><span
class="gmail-floatR"><span class="gmail-fiancialNumber"><span>For
Wifeski:</span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="gmail-bill-overview"><span
class="gmail-floatR"><span class="gmail-fiancialNumber"><span></span></span></span></span>500
Anytime minutes (she uses much less than that for daytime
calls)<br>
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<div>Voicemail 3<br>
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<div>Unlimited evenings & wknd from 5PM<br>
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<div>Unlimited Incoming Text</div>
plus your usual call waiting/call display jazz...<span
class="gmail-bill-overview"><span class="gmail-floatR"><span
class="gmail-fiancialNumber"><span><span
class="gmail-myaccount-mobility-overview">
<div class="gmail-col-xs-12">Also included is 3GB of
data each month for free when we took the contract
(I doubt she uses half of that)</div>
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<div><span class="gmail-bill-overview"><span
class="gmail-floatR"><span class="gmail-fiancialNumber"><span><span
class="gmail-myaccount-mobility-overview">
<div class="gmail-col-xs-12"><br>
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<div class="gmail-col-xs-12">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...)<span
class="gmail-myaccount-mobility-overview"></span></div>
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<div>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..)</div>
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<div>Thanks for any suggestions!!</div>
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