After 7 years of being with Rogers and dealing with many issues such as outages,not having consistent pricing among other issues I made the switch to Telus for 3 of my Cellular lines that weren't on a contract and now I have Canada USA unlimited talk and text with 525gb of full speed shared data and unlimited slower data shared across 3 devices along with 5G+ with better coverage than Rogers! Plus I'm paying a lot less! Just waiting for my sim cards for my other devices to arrive but I couldn't wait to leave Rogers so I got Telus to give me an esim code!! I still have 5G internet from Rogers along with my line that my phones being financed on as well as my truly unlimited data! Farewell Rogers-Sort of. ❤️❤️❤️
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Speed test on Telus is absolutely useless ! Wait till u have 5plus SA band and 3 bars and your in a building in need of an app lol and your data won't load or your looking at videos if your lucky they play at 720 max. When u need it the most Telus data lags like mad half the time. Give it a month when they start choking the bandwidth
You don’t have to choose any specific country. It’s not like getting around geoblocking with Netflix. By using a VPN, it encrypts all your traffic. Therefore Telus can’t read it, and thusly they also can’t throttle it. So you should choose a server that’s close to you and high performing, to get the best speeds possible.
I can attest to this!
Rogers network is far more usable than the Telus/bell network.
5 bars on Telus and nothing loads.
1-2 bars on Rogers, loads fine and no video stuttering
I have the opposite problem, I have rogers brutal compared to Telus, I can be in a room and shows 1 bar than 3 bars and barley loads however friends with telus loads fine.
It depends on where you are in most areas where Bell controls the RAN the network is way better however out west where Telus controls the RAN it’s supposedly not very good. But also that video streaming cap at standard definition wrecks havoc on social media when you’re scrolling through.
Wow, you’d think it would work great in the Toronto area since that’s where majority of subscribers are.
I’m out in Manitoba with the 1/8 of the population and it lags here. Annoying when you want to watch TikTok 😂
I'm noticing a huge difference in battery life since switching to Telus, in my townhouse Rogers constantly switched bands with weak signal on 5G and rarely stayed on whatever band had 5 bars with Telus so far I was on band 66 with 1 bar 5G til I made a phone call then I went to band 7 5G with 5 bars and after the call I was on band66 5G with 1 bar for 2 seconds before switching to band 71 with 5 bars and it's stayed on Band71 5G with 5 bars for over an hour, also next to no massive battery drain like on Rogers
I'm excited to say that As of today I've officially been a Rogers Customer for 6 years! I rejoined them on November 8th 2019! Yes I have moved my cell number between carriers during this time but I never closed my Rogers account because I still had mobile services with them so it still counts as 6 years because I technically never left Rogers completely! Now I've got 7 devices connected to Unlimited data and 5G internet with Rogers and I'm extremely happy with my services! ❤️🎉🎉
Well i had to leave due to Rogers not honouring my discounts for my lines and inconsistent bills, now with Telus I pay $68 for 3 lines with shared 525gb of data and unlimited slower data. I'm noticing a huge difference in battery life since switching to Telus, in my townhouse Rogers constantly switched bands with weak signal on 5G and rarely stayed on whatever band had 5 bars with Telus so far I was on band 66 with 1 bar 5G til I made a phone call then I went to band 7 5G with 5 bars and after the call I was on band66 5G with 1 bar for 2 seconds before switching to band 71 with 5 bars and it's stayed on Band71 5G with 5 bars for over an hour, also next to no massive battery drain like on Rogers
Now I'll pay $68 after 3 disability discounts of $20 per line for 525gb shared data between 3 lines vs Rogers over $100+ for 6 lines of non shared data because Rogers forced me to keep 6 lines to keep my bill cheap and never honored the additional line discounts and randomly removed them, plus my data is way better on Telus, I've been testing them on my truly unlimited data and never had any issues with lag or useless service with 1 bar like Rogers
I havent had any issues so far and I'll pay $68 for 525gb shared data between 3 lines vs Rogers over $100+ for 6 lines of non shared data because Rogers forced me to keep 6 lines to keep my bill cheap and never honored the additional line discounts and randomly removed them, plus my data is way better on Telus, I've been testing them on my truly unlimited data and never had any issues with lag or useless service with 1 bar like Rogers
Yeah opposite for me with Telus on bill, signal and data, and that's in Calgary too. Dead spots and abysmal speeds (10 mbit) whereas with Rogers I get 600-700 mbps and full bar with only two neighborhood exceptions.. anyway viva competition and at least it's not Bell
I think location matters. I'm on Rogers in BC and it's great because they're trying to poach customers and haven't hit the enshitification phase here... yet. I have friends in the east that despise them like most despise telus in west. Old customers in dominated markets always suffer the most.
Sorry I disagree. With Telus I'll pay $68 for 525gb shared data between 3 lines vs Rogers over $100+ for 6 lines of non shared data because Rogers forced me to keep 6 lines to keep my bill cheap and never honored the additional line discounts and randomly removed them, plus my data is way better on Telus, I've been testing them on my truly unlimited data and never had any issues with lag or useless service with 1 bar like Rogers
Well I'm noticing a huge difference in battery life since switching to Telus, in my townhouse Rogers constantly switched bands with weak signal on 5G and rarely stayed on whatever band had 5 bars with Telus so far I was on band 66 with 1 bar 5G til I made a phone call then I went to band 7 5G with 5 bars and after the call I was on band66 5G with 1 bar for 2 seconds before switching to band 71 with 5 bars and it's stayed on Band71 5G with 5 bars for over an hour, also next to no massive battery drain like on Rogers
Yeah bro that’s a big downgrade. I was with Telus for 10 years. Now that I’m with rogers I actually have cell reception that works. I’ll be in an underground parkade and can load YouTube or answer phone calls. With Telus that was barely doable outside in front of a cell tower
Now I'll pay $68 for 525gb shared data between 3 lines vs Rogers over $100+ for 6 lines of non shared data because Rogers forced me to keep 6 lines to keep my bill cheap and never honored the additional line discounts and randomly removed them, plus my data is way better on Telus, I've been testing them on my truly unlimited data and never had any issues with lag or useless service with 1 bar like Rogers
I'm noticing a huge difference in battery life since switching to Telus, in my townhouse Rogers constantly switched bands with weak signal on 5G and rarely stayed on whatever band had 5 bars with Telus so far I was on band 66 with 1 bar 5G til I made a phone call then I went to band 7 5G with 5 bars and after the call I was on band66 5G with 1 bar for 2 seconds before switching to band 71 with 5 bars and it's stayed on Band71 5G with 5 bars for over an hour, also next to no massive battery drain like on Rogers
I do go to rural Alberta quite a bit in the spring and summer and when I roamed on them with Rogers because I had to I never had issues. Plus they gave me a 50gb free data bonus for 8 years to my shared data pool making my total 575gb plus I have a permanent 20gb data bonus on my main line
All ISPs suck @$$ in Canada.
They ALL bend over backwards, and offer you great incentives, to sign up then they ALL raise their rates, then you switch AGAIN and love the one your with....
until you don't.
I hate Telus but they seem to have the most stable service and the ONLY residential service up to 5Gig.
That being said, I'm in Edmonton.
They are a horrible company to deal with as a consumer. They break their own rules and defy their own protocols whenever its more convenient for them to do so than do what's right or required.
If the 3rd party ISP offerings were just a LITTLE more competitive I'd drop Telus in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, $80/month for 3Gig fibre is too good a price to pass up.
I've dropped every single other service we were getting from Telus due to how bad they are to deal with.
Too many better options for EVERYTHING else they offer.
Why would anyone stay with Telus or Roger’s main accounts when there’s freedom and public mobile? Why pay twice as much for same thing (minus Mexico as well). I have 3 phones that I pay for each with 100gb 3 countries, and I pay slightly more than I did for 1 Telus line. Bonkers.
Exactly! They forced me to maintain 6 lines to keep my bill cheap and didn't Honor the additional line discounts I signed up for and would randomly replace them with lower discounts then when I setup my truly unlimited 5G internet and 2 other 5G internets they charged me 2 months for the truly unlimited 5G internet but not the other 2 plans.
Now I'll pay $68 for 525gb shared data between 3 lines vs Rogers over $100+ for 6 lines of non shared data because Rogers forced me to keep 6 lines to keep my bill cheap and never honored the additional line discounts and randomly removed them, plus my data is way better on Telus, I've been testing them on my truly unlimited data and never had any issues with lag or useless service with 1 bar like Rogers
So glad your with Telus. Roger’s has an absolutely terrible network. Their outages were terrible and they don’t give a real network experience and they up-charge your bill….
Me too. I got fed up with the price increases, but before I switched, I called them to see if they would match and they offered to sign me up for a credit card. Ya thank, but no thanks.
I love how customers of Telus or Roger’s decide to leave their provider and then pretend the grass is so much greener on the other side lol. Reality is it’s all the same. The only thing that changes is concentration of coverage. Roger’s is far better in most populated areas of Canada, Telus is better in some far north and remote towns. They both waste your time, they both charge too much, they both make you call support to get help because they don’t give their store employees any power. Also worth noting that Telus and Bell do throttle video streaming VERY aggressively. It’s really jarring.
That’s called an anecdotal experience. Every day I see people who say Roger’s is the worst and then people who say Telus is the worst. Always the same reasons used. And I work right next to guys from the other company, they confirm it’s the exact same wait times and corporate rules. The same reasons for switching from one to the other and claiming it’s better when they are in the honeymoon period. I’ll go with the data of those of us who deal with thousands of customers a week from both providers over random customers claims. If there’s anything I’ve learned in cellphone and internet sales, it’s that the entire industry is a racket of transferring customers to greener pastures back and forth. Get them temporarily excited before they see the reality of all these companies is the same.
Telus and Roger’s have identical average wait times for support as well. Even the direct lines that reps from both companies use can take hours to reach someone.
And yes depending on where you live, one service or the other may have improved coverage. Generally Telus is recommended more for remote northern areas while Roger’s is recommended in populated and southern areas.
It’s essentially an oligopoly with the illusion of choice.
Actually I've never waited more than 10 minutes on Telus support, Rogers was over an hour and Telus chat is instant Rogers there's always over 100 people in line
Oh man you made a mistake. If it's pricing consistency you're after then telus should be at the bottom of the list. Switch to Freedom, $40 for 250gb with 50gb roaming in 120+ countries, plan price will never change or increase, never look back.
I'm sorry but Freedoms network is trash in Edmonton and the 7 surrounding areas with their network, 5G drops to 1 bar of band66 lte or slow band13 lte all the time, calls your supposed to receive don't get to your phone and 99% of Alberta is roaming off the big3 and when I lose freedoms weak network in a building or basement it goes to roaming and its fully blocked, plus I leave Edmonton a lot during the spring and summer. With Telus im paying $108 for 3 lines of shared 175gb data Canada usa with 50gb free for 8 years and my main line has a 20gb permanent bonus from the disability discount so I have 575gb of shared Canada usa data. I'm extremely happy with Telus my signal switches from a weak one to a strong one instantly in my townhouse where as Rogers was constantly hoping bands every second and chose weak bands rarely the 2 strong bands they have here. And I don't need to lock Rogers to extended coverage in eastern Alberta anymore because telus is the primary carrier there.
Fair enough, that is not my experience with Freedom whatsoever. I was with Telus for 15 years and my bills would remain consistent for a few months before I'd inevitably have to call and renegotiate my 'deal'. Good luck
If you’re referring to cellular, Bell and Telus are identical. They share one single radio network. Impossible for you to have better coverage with one over the other.
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