 elwoodbluesElwood Blues
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FU RogersYou have just lost a long term customer because of your inflexibility.
Wind mobile here I come. Instead of getting SOME money from me, you get nothing.
Of course you don't care, since I'm a minor blip on your ARPU |
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bt
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2013-Feb-28 4:44 pm
Contract renewal went well, I take it? |
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Wind Mobile FTW. Not the fastest or best quality yet. But overall if you live in the coverage area and don't leave town much or hell even live in Barrie and commute to Toronto then you will get okay service for fraction the price. |
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elwoodbluesElwood Blues
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Re: FU Rogerssaid by bt:Contract renewal went well, I take it?
Exactly |
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Yeah I know,
I figure for the 16 bucks a month more Rogers wants the Wind (and that's for 1gb of data not 6) I can handle the roamng charges.
The Ontario LD in the $30 plan is perfect. Just need to find a decent AWS phone now. |
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Has WIND gotten a lot better? Everyone I know who was on a big 3 carrier and switched to Wind/Public/Mobilicity switched back because of dropped call / call quality issues. |
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sbrook
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2013-Feb-28 7:08 pm
I am still with Wind ... my problem is not with Wind, but with my stupid Nokia phone that decides to disconnect from the network as soon as it completes a call now! I've had Wind for over 2 years and it has been fine. The roaming charges are no worse than RoBel! |
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said by SimplePanda:Has WIND gotten a lot better? Everyone I know who was on a big 3 carrier and switched to Wind/Public/Mobilicity switched back because of dropped call / call quality issues.
It's been good in Ottawa, but we never seemed to have the kind of issues here that Wind customers in Toronto experienced. |
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Nexus 4 » play.google.com/store/de ··· gb&hl=enIf you're looking for phone recommendations the Nexus 4 is a great phone. |
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elwoodbluesElwood Blues
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join:2006-08-30
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I debating what i want.. i'm kinda pining for the optimus g pro... but it;s a few months out. I'll probably buy it from the google Play store, its 200 bucks cheaper then Wind Wants, AND i get an extra 10 bucks a month off. |
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join:2008-02-14
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I vouch for the nexus 4 as well. |
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resa1983
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join:2008-03-10
North York, ON |
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said by bt:said by SimplePanda:Has WIND gotten a lot better? Everyone I know who was on a big 3 carrier and switched to Wind/Public/Mobilicity switched back because of dropped call / call quality issues.
It's been good in Ottawa, but we never seemed to have the kind of issues here that Wind customers in Toronto experienced. Its funny you say that... I had issues in Ottawa at my hotel near the Rideau, where I'd randomly lose signal, and go roaming. I haven't had any issues in Toronto. Prior to moving, I'd never have signal in my building's elevator, but I had signal with Wind. New building, full signal in my elevator. Only place I lose my signal is in my building's parking garage. I do have 1 bar on a short stretch on Steeles between Dufferin & Bathurst, but that's really about it. Toronto: » www.cellmapper.net/map.p ··· &zoom=13Ottawa: » www.cellmapper.net/map.p ··· &zoom=12 |
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I was with WIND for about a year before I switched to Telus (Koodo).... the quality of the network is far above anything WIND can offer... even so, sometimes I think that I should just go back to WIND to pocket the $25/month. |
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join:2007-09-27
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The only place I get low data signal is between Kipling to just west of Martingrove along Rathburn on my commute home.
Otherwise in the almost 2 years I've been with Wind I haven't had many issues with poor quality calls dropped calls or low bars for data. |
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resa1983
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join:2008-03-10
North York, ON |
resa1983
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2013-Mar-1 2:34 pm
said by dgass:The only place I get low data signal is between Kipling to just west of Martingrove along Rathburn on my commute home.
Otherwise in the almost 2 years I've been with Wind I haven't had many issues with poor quality calls dropped calls or low bars for data.
I've had a total of 1 accidental dropped call, but that was from an issue with my phone... I've learned how to recreate the circumstances, so as NOT to do it anymore. |
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join:2005-04-27
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boy thank god I just use a pre-paid phone. Load that bad boy up with $100 lasts me all year with money always lift over. |
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 J E F F4Whatta Ya Think About Dat?
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Yeah, Winds prices seem normal on all the phones except that one. Pointless to buy it from them. It really should be $149 on the $30 month plan, that'd be for the 16GB unit. |
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softie
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2013-Mar-2 11:06 am
i liked that quote of Albert Einstein. These cellular companies love to gouge. Blame the gov't for anti-competitive practices for our high prices. you can call from Africa to canada for 3cents/miunute. Ask the idiot of a minister for telecom to explain this to us.
Rogers has got rich on the "backs" of canadians and continue to provide erroneous bills and claim it is the computer and not them such thieves at the top should be heavily fined. One has to spend 3 hours to get a customer service agent. No recourse for such behaviour. This govt and the CRTC are in bed with these cellular providers to protect their jobs. |
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SimplePandaBSD
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join:2003-09-22
Montreal, QC |
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Nexus 4 has some odd Wifi / data issue occasionally. If you leave a wifi area sometimes the HSPA+ connection never 'turns on' (to use a less than technical explanation).
N4 has become my "stays on desk" development phone for these reasons.
That said, between that and the Galaxy S3 I'd take the N4. TouchWiz + Samsung's horrible colour calibration are a total deal breaker for me. |
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said by SimplePanda:That said, between that and the Galaxy S3 I'd take the N4. TouchWiz + Samsung's horrible colour calibration are a total deal breaker for me. You're also waiting around forever for Android updates. Just get CyanogenMod. |
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I switched from the thieves of Rogers last summer to WIND and I have never looked back. I have yet to experience the "poor" alleged Wind talk quality. I get WIND signal EVERYWHERE I go, almost all of the Golden Horseshoe, Toronto, Barrie, Newmarket, even Angus. There's WIND coverage from Ajax all the way to the U.S. border, that's where I am 99.9% of the time.
I can still make a phone call on my WIND phone from Wasaga Beach or Algonquin Park with roaming, who cares if I have to pay the 50 cents a minute fee while suckling off a foreign tower, if I make a phone call from outside my area it would be because I broke down in my car or say I have arrived, how much is saying those words going to cost me? $2 extra on my WIND bill at the end of the month? Big deal.
I love you WIND. |
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elwoodbluesElwood Blues
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said by Xstar_Lumini 
I can still make a phone call on my WIND phone from Wasaga Beach or Algonquin Park with roaming, who cares if I have to pay the 50 cents a minute fee while suckling off a foreign tower, if I make a phone call from outside my area it would be because I broke down in my car or say I have arrived, how much is saying those words going to cost me? $2 extra on my WIND bill at the end of the month? Big deal.
I love you WIND.
[/BQUOTE :That's my take on it too. Rogers is offering me an inferior package (data wise) for 10 bucks a month more then I pay now.
I'm, going to sign up for the Ontario ($30) deal and I figure I'd have to spend over $15/month,EVERY SINGLE MONTH, just to spend what Rogers wants to charge me. |
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Re: FU RogersAnd I'm gone. I figured I'd port out early to avoid any problems.
Well catch this out, they consider it a termination of service, and tried to nail me for early (16 days) termination fees of over $100.
There was pro rated amount for the voice service and $100 for data (the minimum)!!!
I got it all waived, but holy smokes. |
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join:2012-09-03
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yyzlhr
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2013-Mar-14 4:19 pm
said by elwoodblues:And I'm gone. I figured I'd port out early to avoid any problems.
Well catch this out, they consider it a termination of service, and tried to nail me for early (16 days) termination fees of over $100.
There was pro rated amount for the voice service and $100 for data (the minimum)!!!
I got it all waived, but holy smokes.
Every provider considers a port out to be a termination of service. |
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elwoodbluesElwood Blues
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I had heard that if i do call in and cancel proper, they prevent the port out.. So took a pre-emptive strike.
Call it what you want, I had no issues paying for the next 16 days even though I'm on Wind. I guess i'll see when the next bill comes. |
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 Dan48Trailer Park Supervisor
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Dan48
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2013-Mar-15 1:24 am
You are right about that. In another life I worked for Rogers in a Cable/Wireless Center (a store not a mall booth). If you called to cancel to not get hit with pro-rated fees, you no longer were able to Port a number.
Several times, I had to explain this to customers. Now that being said, it's been years since I last worked there, but I doubt it has changed. It was supposed to be a glitch with the system (according to the lovely folks at Rogers call centres) and was supposed to be fixed withing a few months. This was back when Porting first came to Canadian wireless carriers. |
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You can call it a glitch or whatever but I'm sure they don't want to encourage you to take the number as they'd rather dump it back in the pool then let you keep it both for competitive reasons and the fact that they likely never wanted porting in the first place. |
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SimplePandaBSD
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said by Xstar_Lumini:I switched from the thieves of Rogers last summer to WIND and I have never looked back. I have yet to experience the "poor" alleged Wind talk quality. I get WIND signal EVERYWHERE I go, almost all of the Golden Horseshoe, Toronto, Barrie, Newmarket, even Angus. There's WIND coverage from Ajax all the way to the U.S. border, that's where I am 99.9% of the time.
I can still make a phone call on my WIND phone from Wasaga Beach or Algonquin Park with roaming, who cares if I have to pay the 50 cents a minute fee while suckling off a foreign tower, if I make a phone call from outside my area it would be because I broke down in my car or say I have arrived, how much is saying those words going to cost me? $2 extra on my WIND bill at the end of the month? Big deal.
I love you WIND.
Strange. I find there is -zero- WIND coverage anywhere in Toronto. Oh... you're talking about something that's -not- LTE? ;p |
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