[kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers

[Herman Gruetzmacher]

If you are looking at cheap data I would recommend tbaytel. I pay $100 for 1 year of prepaid access for 20gb of data. Basically you roam on Rogers across Canada but only at 4g speeds which is fast enough for me. I then use voip.ms for my telephone provide which is $0.85/month so not using tbaytel phone service just data

Herman

From: Darcy Casselman 
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:53 AM
To: KWLUG discussion 
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers

Laurelwood coverage is better, now that they have a tower near the Boardwalk.  


Wind also now has a cheap "Wind Away" coverage.  Which is kind of roaming, but with rates that are comparable to a pay as you go: 15¢/min, 5¢/text, and 5¢/MB.  "Wind Away" is no longer considered roaming, which kind of sucks in some ways, because I've occasionally ended up in an Away zone while in a building in a less-good coverage area (namely, work).  So I've turned off things like podcast downloading and photo uploading on mobile data.  But it does mean if I need to check data while I'm home in Belleville or something, I know my bill isn't going to be exorbitant. 


I recommend it.  Wind isn't the fastest or the broadest (coverage), but it's almost certainly the cheapest, especially if you use data.  


Darcy.


On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

  On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

    > I know Bob uses Wind for the unlimited data but has poor coverage.

    To be clear, I only have poor coverage from Wind where I live, in Emira. Coverage in KW and TO is fine. 

  Not all of KW. The Laurelwood area in north west Waterloo has bad coverage.


  Also, when you are outside metro areas, e.g. the shores of lake Huron and Erie, you are "roaming", and pay per minute.


  Apart from that, Wind Mobile is really good. My daughters had/have it.


   

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