[kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers

[Jason Locklin]

Silly question Herman, did you go to Thunder Bay to buy that phone+plan? 
They don't seem to have shipping information or any sort of web 
storefront. I'll call them up to see, but wondering what you did. -Jason

On 04/06/15 05:41 PM, Herman Gruetzmacher wrote:
> I setup the plan Dec 24th and have had a difficult time using my 20gb of
> data. I still have 18.5gb left. Mind you I do use wifi at home so it
> isn't drawing down from my plan. I would have gone with a smaller plan
> like you describe but they expire sooner. If I could get a plan for 5gb
> it would probably last for a year if it were for voip only. Guess it
> depends how much you use the phone. Right now it is in my wife's hands
> and she hardly touches it
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jason Locklin
> Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 2:03 PM
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Cell phone providers
>
> How do you find this works out, Herman? Considering doing this as well,
> or a split ($100 top-up, but $55 going to 10GB data, just so I can still
> be reachable if the voip goes down for some reason). Do you find that
> maintaining the connection to voip.ms eats up much of the data?
>
> On 03/06/15 06:09 AM, Herman Gruetzmacher wrote:
>> 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 <mailto:dscassel at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:53 AM
>> *To:* KWLUG discussion <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>> *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
>> <mailto:kb at 2bits.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com
>>     <mailto:bjonkman at sobac.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         > I know Bob uses Wind for the unlimited data but has
>> poorcoverage.
>>
>>         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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