To add one more fact to the unlocking topic for Canadian providers, you can as Grant pointed out ask Telus to unlock your phone after 90 days, however, that does not mean you can then go to another provider if you bought the phone on a 3-year contract with full subsidy. It simply means that if, for example, you are planning to travel you could get your phone unlocked and use a different SIM card in another country, but you are still stuck with Telus for the duration of your contract. If you went to a different provider after, for example 6 months, Telus would make you pay whatever the penalty is for terminating your contract after 6 months. However, it is good that you at least can unlock after 90 days for a relatively reasonable charge, Koodo, by the way, has the same policy as Telus, it's also $35 and 90 days.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:22 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Great plan special for Canadians with Koodo or Fido Just to add, the identical $56 plan is available at Fido and Virgin Mobile Canada. Also to make sure people are aware, this is _not_ a plan which is eligible for a full subsidy on an iPhone. As Sieghard mentioned you'll have to pay a lot more money up front, or have an unlocked iPhone already. Unlocking policies vary from carrier to carrier. Telus' is the best, it is $35 and you simply have to have the phone registered on your account for 90 days. Rogers and Fido charge $50 and your subsidy must have been fully repaid. Bell's unlocking policy is the least economical, at $70, and is also unclear--it mentions that you have to be month to month, but it doesn't mention whether, say, the iPhone could have been activated on another person's account and with subsidy still owing. Grant On 12/11/12, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hello fellow Canadians, > > > > I just wanted to pass this along since I was told about it yesterday > and just changed my plan. Here are the 3 scenarios under which you can > take advantage of this: > > > > 1. You have to be an existing customer of Fido (which belongs to > Rogers) or Koodo (which belongs to Telus). > > > > 2. If you are not an existing customer and want to switch you have to > make sure you are not under contract any more with your previous > provider and, of course, your iPhone has to be unlocked. If you have > an iPhone and have fulfilled your contract you can officially request > unlock instructions and once you are unlocked you can go where you please. > > > > 3. If you want to switch to Koodo or Fido as a new customer and buy > an > iPhone from them you can do this. I am not sure about Fido, but Koodo > will not lock you into a plan, however, they won't give you quite as > good a deal on the phone, either. If you are a new customer, they will > give you $150 off your phone. This means that for an iPhone 5 16 Gig > which costs $670 here in Canada, you would pay $520. If you sign up > for a 3-year contract with Telus you can get the same phone for $199 I > believe, but then you are locked in for 3 years. With Koodo once you > have a plan, 10% of your plan cost every month is applied to what they > call your "Tab". The $150 they give you up front and if you were to > cancel your service with them after a few month you would have to pay > out whatever balance is left from the $150 less the portion that was > applied to that from your tab. If you bring your own phone to them, > then 10% each month are accumulated and if you want to buy a new phone > let's say in a year, you have whatever that balance is available. > > > > Anyhow, I don't want to get into this any further, what I really > wanted to let everybody know is the promotion they have right now. > > > > You get unlimited Canada wide calling any time (long distance and > airtime), unlimited texting, call display, voice mail and 2 Gigabytes > of data for $56 a month + tax. > > This is a super deal, I was a Koodo customer before and paid $55 just > for the unlimited calling, texting, call display and voice mail. I > then had a data flex plan which depending on how much I used (I don't > use very much0) cost me another $10 or $15 a month which means my > total bill was usually > $65 > or $70 a month. Now I get everything I had before + 2 Gig of data for > $1 more than I paid before for just the voice plan. I save $9 or $14 a > months and had I actually used close to 2 Gigs of data on the plan I > had I would have paid $30 more than what I am now paying on this promo. > > > > I heard Fido is offering the same for $54 or $55 so even a Dollar or 2 > less. > > > > I am not sure what Telus, Bell and Rogers are currently offering, but > I used to be with Telus and always paid $70 or $75 and I didn't have > the unlimited calling/airtime so I always had to think whether the > call I was about to make was covered under the plan I had with > Favourite Numbers, Free Evening/Weekend Air Time, a certain number of > daytime airtime minutes, 100 long distance minutes etc. I like the > fact that with Koodo it doesn't matter if I call during the day or on > a weekend, whether it's local or long distance or whether I am in my > local area or not. As long as I am in Canada it makes no difference > and while I think it's not truly unlimited, I have never used it all > up. > > > > > > Regards, > > Sieghard > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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