elwoodblues
Elwood Blues
join:2006-08-30
Toronto, ON
| reply to Goggles9
Re: The Telus iPhone? Maybe
I'm sitting on the fence right now.. my contract is up and I keep thinking i want to pull the trigger and get an iPhone.. but if Telus is going to offer it.. more ammo for me come October.
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Goggles9
join:2003-01-26
North York, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| Im with you Elwood, right now you dont see much in price or attitude change with the big 3, but it seems like the retention departments are working overtime, like it goes, its easier retaining a customer then finding a new one, I think something is going to give in the next 60 days. |
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dirtyjeffer
Oh Yeah
Premium
join:2002-02-21
London, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| what kind of coverage is Telus going to have one month after launch??...from what i recall, they were only going to offer the HSPA coverage to start at the Olympics (unless this is a network wide deployment, but i don't think it is)...so while they may offer the device, it may be somewhat like the "old" Fido was...you could use it in the city, but that's it (and a limited number of cities).
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WackyGaru
join:2009-02-10
Grande Prairie, AB | It will be a lot better than Fido's deployment ever was this I can guarantee  |
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artich0ke
join:2009-03-18
canada
| reply to elwoodblues
There are two problems, first is the telus iphone won't be able to fall back onto the CDMA network, whereas the fido/rogers iphone can fall back onto GSM.
Secondly, tethering on telus costs $8 per megabyte, whereas with fido/rogers it is included in the data plan.
Telus still can't compete. |
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danf
join:2005-11-10
Abbotsford, BC
| said by artich0ke :
Secondly, tethering on telus costs $8 per megabyte, whereas with fido/rogers it is included in the data plan.
That's not exactly true. Rogers said it's included in the data plan until 2010. Who knows what'll happen after that. Anyone who wanted to tether previously would have to jailbreak their phone to do it. |
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artich0ke
join:2009-03-18
canada
| said by danf  : That's not exactly true. Rogers said it's included in the data plan until 2010. Who knows what'll happen after that. Anyone who wanted to tether previously would have to jailbreak their phone to do it. It's true there may be an additional charge in the future ($5/mo maybe?), heck telus might even lower its prices from $8/MB (it would surprise me tho)... Anything is possible. But as it stands now, tethering is included on all data plans above 1GB. |
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