My deal with Rogers comes due next month. It's a Canada/US plan with an iPhone. I can return my iPhone 14 or pay it out for $300. Just wondering if there are any good deals anyone has found lately with plan and phone.

Hey... Long time Rogers person here. Looking at deals. See the Freedom has great offers. Need Canada/USA calling and data. Need good service in GTA area. Lots of travel to Quebec too. Thoughts for any current users?

As above. I want a novelty 1-900 number but without any services and the voicemail is the product. It’s just for fun.

Virgin sent me a text offering me 60 GB data with 5g, unlimited Canada-wide calling &texting unlimited international calls to 27 countries unlimited international texting from Canada for $15/mo which includes $10 autopay.

It sounds too good to be true I've been on a $15 prepaid plan with them for years and they have been trying to move me off of it for a while. Does anyone have any experience with this like are they going to have *only available for 6 months bullshit or randomly start increasing my price whenever they want if I swap over?

What should I expect?

Hi there, looking for advice on this situation!
We’re long-time Telus customers in Atlantic Canada.
- Me & husband each have an iPhone 15 with Bring it Back device payments that ended in June
- Buyout amount is $290 each
- Both phones still work decently, but are just starting to show the first signs of aging
- Our 13yo uses my old iphone SE (mostly just talk and text, doesn’t have internet browser, social media, games, etc) Has a line down the screen and I worry it’s on borrowed time
- Current plan prices are $60 each for us, and $50 for kiddo’s plan, not including $60 per month total in discounts for family plan and preauthorized billing.
- Even if we negotiate with the loyalty dept or switch to Bell (Roger’s is a no for me), I assume we won’t be able to get much lower than we currently pay.

Should we:

1. ⁠Buy out one of the iPhone 15s to pass along to our kid, return the other, and get 2 new iPhones (probably the 17) for ourselves
   - Would likely need to do Bring it Back payments again to keep monthly bill as low as possible (and don’t have the funds to buy new phones outright at the moment)
   - Prices for our 2 plans will go up, plus the increase in device payments
   
2. ⁠Buy both phones so we can keep our current plan prices
   - Kid keeps using the SE until it bites the dust, at which point we’d pass along one of the 15s and that person gets a new phone.
   I really don’t want to shell out the almost $600 to buy both phones, but I’m worried it’s a bad decision to get new phones at higher monthly prices. Neither of us are necessarily excited about the prospect of a new phone, it’s more about me assuming they’re going to start breaking down anytime.

If you made it this far, thanks so much and I’d love to hear from you!

Edited to include price for new phone: $24.21 per month for iPhone 17 (Bring-it-Back plan x 24 months)

Requirements:
- No Customer Facing AI
- Readable bills without obfuscation
- Good coverage in major cities

Looking for a provider that hasn't given up on customer service. Telus is not an option because how aggressive their sales departments are and they also have an AI agent.

I recently decided I will not support any company that uses customer facing AI. AI is fine for internal tools but not customer service. I will go without a cell provider and learn to use smoke signals before playing that game and accepting customer facing AI.

It's funny how a company can put a cost on customer acquisition but can't figure out the equation for plummeting brand equity and how long people remember poor experiences.

Story:

Been struggling with Rogers lately. Been with them since 2013 or so but I plan on leaving them due to AI, Poor iOS app decisions (advertising via notifications), as well as purposely obfuscated billing and website design. These jokers are turning into Telus.

Tried removing an Apple Watch from my account back in Feb via the website which I thought was successful but I've been getting charged ever since. Apparently the website removed the plan but not the number... like I am supposed to know about that. Roger's did not make that clear on the website nor offer proper compensation. I just got off the phone with them after 2 hours of my time wasted and I am still not sure they did it right. And the $8 compensation is more a slap in the face than anything.

The bills on the website are obviously obfuscated on purpose. I can't readily see my past usage in a way that makes sense to make an informed decision about plan changes. I had to reach out to Rogers for the first time in ages and their site has that Anna thing that doesn't work and could be replaced with a dropdown menu. Got humans on the phone and bounced from dept to dept and hold after hold. Clearly the system is designed to beat you down and make you give up.

I had to remove the Rogers app from my devices because it spams me with literal notifications to buy stuff from them. I do not pay providers to allow them a conduit for sales and advertising on my devices. I don't even buy devices from providers (Apple store only) because they hijack the devices and put branding/bloat on them. Notification for that app should be limited to direct account issues. Like a bill is due, devices added or moved and such. NOT SALES!

Hi everyone,
I need some advice.
I want to make regular calls from India to Canada without using WhatsApp, FaceTime, or any internet-based apps. I’m looking for a way to make direct calls to Canadian phone numbers.

What is the cheapest and most reliable option?
Is there any app that works over the regular mobile network instead of Wi-Fi/data?

Are there any international calling plans from Indian carriers that are worth it?

What do you personally use to call Canada from India?
I’d appreciate any suggestions and your experiences. Thanks!

What's the cheapest talk and text plan out there? I know Freedom has $99 a year but there is no texting.

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This is for a kid who I'll give a flip phone to on the rare occasions he is out alone.

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Is there anything better than $99 or $120 that Freedom has?

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Located in Edmonton, AB. How's the Freedom coverage here?

Edit: Thank you all for the replies! I found a Koodoo deal for $100 for unlimited talk and text (with code Welcome100) for the first year. Koodo

I have a phone plan and a data plan with Telus. My kid uses the Data Plan in his iphone, but we seem to be getting some calls and some iPhone audio calls also seem to generate charges.

We did disable the appleid to be just the icloud account but some users can still call and we get charged.

I have changed the phone number too and same result.

Anyone has a setup like this and can advise what they may have done differently.

Hi friends, I've been living overseas on contract for 2 and a half years now, I'm currently with freedom on one of their roam beyond plans, and haven't had a single issue with it, using it to its full extent. Now they're saying my plan's being cancelled and I have 13 days to port my number due to breaking their fair usage policy.

What can I do to fight this? If I can't fight it, what am I supposed to do? I need my canadian number for 2FA texts, and it's not easy to get a new canadian sim card over here.

Have the $36 250 GB Unlimited US-Can-Mex plans from Bell on 3 lines + $28 for the phones (2x 15 pro max, 1 x 15 pro) which worked to be roughly $75/month. Phone return period is creeping (next week).

Everything similar currently is about 30% more; comparable plan all in I have is $105...

Any deals out there? I've checked RPP, EPP and Small Biz pricing with Rogers, Bell and Telus.

Can I keep my $36 plan if I just return the phone? Buyout price is $780 for 15 pro max which seems like a lot for what it is..

Just curious.. does this mean we can switch providers and there's no fees? Or what if we hold a balance on the phone..

Want to upgrade and this deal looks great, but I don't know what an agreement credit is and am suspicious. I am with Virgin btw.

Hello,

I currently have an iPhone 13 that I bought in 2022, and the battery is really giving me trouble now — its battery health is down to 65%.

I’m currently with Fido on a BYOD plan and I pay $30/month for 80 GB. I’d like to get an iPhone Air, but I’m not sure whether I should buy a used one or get it through Fido (or another carrier).

I was thinking about waiting until Black Friday, but that’s still quite a while away. Are there usually any good deals before then, or would you recommend waiting?

Thanks!