Have you taken a look at Rogers portable internet?
https://www.rogers.com/web/link/portableBrowseFlowBegin?productID=YPPT
30Gb per month and according to their coverage map, may cover Mt Albert
http://hispeed.rogers.com/expand/map_frames.html
I've used it here in Calgary as it is a much cheaper (although larger)
option than their USB stick.
Martin
Chuck Mariotti wrote:
You are correct. The bill indicates that they put her on the $85 / 5GB Plan...
then billed past that cap... in one case $443 on top of it.
As well, I talked to probably 9 Rogers reps, on phones and different rogers
stores over a period of a couple of months... and they explained it every time
that it was $100 max, period. Not overage. It would roll up to the highest
tier, then cap out at $100. I think everyone of them said that you would never
get a bill over $100, no matter how much you used.
On another email, you indicated that there is a $150/ 15GB package... but said
HoFo? What is HoFo? How can I get more info on this?
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Nabeel Jafferali [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: January-19-10 3:38 PM
To: 'asterisk Mailing'
Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Wireless Internet Data Plans - way too syncronized?
The data overage cap was $100 in max *overage*.
So, she's on the flex plan with max fee of $90 for 5GB, and $0.03 per MB over
5GB. So, 20GB is 15GB in overage over the flex $90 plan. That 15GB would cost
$460.8, but would have been capped at $100.
However, in or around September, they changed the overage cap to $500. So your
customer would now get charged max $590, even if she used 100GB of data in a
month.
I don't have any suggestions, just clarifying the previous and current "rules".
BTW The $30/6GB plans specifically don't allow data sticks.
--
Nabeel Jafferali
X2 Networks Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Mariotti [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: January-19-10 3:26 PM
To: asterisk Mailing
Subject: [on-asterisk] Wireless Internet Data Plans - way too syncronized?
I have a client that is using the Rogers Stick for daily internet access.
She uses it a lot and is well above the 5GB package (20GB actually).
When she bought the stick, and every single time I looked at it, Rogers always
said that there was a $100 cap on the maximum you would be charged.
Meaning, if you went above your $30 plan, it would bump you to $35, then $40,
then $45... etc... but to a maximum of $100.
Last month and the month before, she received a bill for ~$600 (each month) for
data usage. Apparently, they sent her inserts with her bill indicating that the
$100 cap would be discontinued (I never look at anything other than the bill
either). After much fighting, she has a credit back, but the problem is now,
she can't use her stick the way she wants to.
Can Rogers really (they already did), just bait and switch like that? Go from a
dollar cap to an insane dollar amount? I can maybe understand increasing the
cap (say to $125 or $150), or placing in more tiers for bandwidth hogs but to
just remove it, seems a rather horrible move to get more user to use the
service.
Looking at other providers now, also shows that they too, have capped data...
From what I can see, they are ALL priced the exact same... in other words, it's
like they all had a meeting and synced up their plans to screw all their high
usage users and give them no other options but to stay where they are.
They even offer a 3G hub now to use at home, but with the same stupid caps.
This also smells fishy if they really do intend on implementing LTE services,
the caps seem very small for the money. Something is up, some sort of
positioning... I read that Virgin (Bell's discount carrier) is going to be
introducing data services, I imagine at the same rate as well.
Does anyone have any experience or advice on this? I was thinking if she bought
out some people with iPhone 6GB $35 plans, she could get 3 or 4 of them, and
just swap in a new SIM each week... would still be cheaper than what she would
have to pay to Rogers (assuming no other options on the plan, like minutes,
etc...) Even this is not a long term plan since those plans would expire
shortly I imagine. Unfortunately, she has no other internet options where she
lives.
ChuckM
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