[kwlug-disc] Rogers PayGo Plans [Was: Re: Moving away from Rogers Internet]

[chaslinux at gmail.com]

Has anyone looked at Chatr for voice? Was thinking of plan strictly voice, no data. Preferably pay ahead/as you go.
Blog: http://www.charlesmccolm.com/
Sent from my cell phone.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:37:18 
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Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Rogers PayGo Plans [Was: Re: Moving away from
 Rogers Internet]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 03:32:32AM -0400, William Park wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 09:05:40PM -0400, Brian Bentley wrote:
> > Because I'm really cheap (for some things) I use
> > 
> > http://www.speakout7eleven.ca/indexb.html
> > 
> > for PAYGO and spend $25 a year.
> 
> I looked into that.  Their prepaid lasts you 365 days, and rates are
> $0.25/min voice and $0.10/text.  That $25 is for talk, so it buys you
> 100min.  911 fee is $1.25/month.  It's good plan, if you don't do much.

Correction: 911 fee will eat up $15, leaving you only $10 for use.
I now remember... the catch was that the minimum topup you can make is
$25.  So, 2 topups is $50/year with $35 for use.  That will give you
140min or 350 texts in a year.

Compare Rogers.  Minimum text addon is $3/month for 25 texts or $36/year
for 300 texts.  Add $9/year 911 fee.  Total comes to $45/year.

Conclusion:  Choose Rogers for text.  Choose 7-Eleven for voice.

Now, what to do about my $10/month VoIP?  Not cheap enough, but not
expensive enough for me to do something about it, as I did with TV. :-)

> 
> 99% of my usage is text.  They only have $15/month unlimited plan, which
> kills any saving.
> 
> Compare Rogers prepaid "Talk" plan (Rogers has 3 plans).  $0.50/min and
> $0.75/month 911 fee.  I save on the text addon, $5/month for 250 texts.
> Payment only lasts 30 days, but the balance rolls over with automatic
> TopUp.  So, that's my $5/month cell plan.
> -- 
> William


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