Data plans

[jaycee]

But you know that we need them, without them we will not know what is going on instantly. How will I ever find out what my sister-in-law is having for dinner if it wasn't for Facebook? How will I know where my wife, son, friends or family are if I am not following them....It's a good way to spend $3000, $4000 or $5,000 a year.


We have been brained washed (needs vs wants) I am guilty of it too...

I find out whats for dinner when I get there, as for knowing where my family are, they are capable of looking out for themselves, if there is a problem that,s where the phone comes in handy.
There are many times when I am speaking to someone perhaps business related, they immediately ask for my cell phone number, my reply , sometimes I tell them that I do not have a cell phone or I tell them that my cell phone is for my personal use, call me on our land line or send the info by mail.
Same as our computer , it is for our personal use, and we do not give out our email address,s to every one that asks.
People are addicted to cell phones and most now days just cannot live without them, as they deem themselves very important, it really pizzzes me off to no end when at lunch they have to get the darn things out and speak into them very loud so the whole restaurant can hear them and see how important they are !!!!!
That and people still having them up to their ear while driving!!!

[GW11]

I'd be willing to bet that you guys talking down to those of us that do have data plans, have home Internet service with a gazillion Gb of data at your finger tips?
Try living without service and come back and let us know how that works out for you?
Living in the burbs makes a person go soft.

Not talking them down here, just saying it's too much money for me to change plans and have it on my phone.

You're right, my home internet is fast and unlimited so my bill for home internet makes up for what I don't spend on the phone.

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[jaycee]

Not talking them down here, just saying it's too much money for me to change plans and have it on my phone.

You're right, my home internet is fast and unlimited so my bill for home internet makes up for what I don't spend on the phone.

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For our internet, I pay $45.20 mnthly. for 50 GB, of which the most we have used in one month is 17.62GB according to records from our provider which are available at the click of the mouse.

[DanO]

Not to highjack the thread but has anyone found a solution to a landline. My cell phone signal is intermittent in the country so I can't just kill the landline. Bell charges me $60 for a Bell Light package......Light alright.... I'm missing $60 a month that's why it's light. My landline in town cost me around $28 four years ago. I hear Bell offers cheaper landline packages but I can't get the Loyalty dept to admit that.

[gunter]

Hi there.
I had a plan same as yours then i decided enough is enough.
I did some google searching and i found a great deal.
Almost 50% less.

I pay $240 (as the primary plan holder, I pay $100 for mine, $70 for wife, $50 for Daughter) a month for 3 phones and share 2G of data with wife and me, our 15 yrs daughters data is HARD disabled from Rogers (only wifi). The wife and I are going to explore other providers over the holidays. We get hosed here in Canada for internet and phones because of no competition from CRTC. Even the FIDO's and Freedoms plans are owned by the Big Three. Both my wife and I need extended coverage when traveling, instead of paying for "out of area" roaming charges as with Freedom and Wind. Our daughter has one month left on contract and we going to move her Freedom ($50.00), as it has unlimited data (which is not true, they throttle you down at certain limits = false advertising). When we travel we will just enable the "only service provider", to make sure we don't incur extra charges.

Customer retention does work and we use it often, but really the problem is no competition in Canada. The CRTC must go.

[gunter]

If you have cell signal at home look at Koodo wireless home phone.
Got this for my mother $5 per month unlimited talking Canada wide.
You need to purchase the receiver from them about $30 i think.
Works off cell tower.

Not to highjack the thread but has anyone found a solution to a landline. My cell phone signal is intermittent in the country so I can't just kill the landline. Bell charges me $60 for a Bell Light package......Light alright.... I'm missing $60 a month that's why it's light. My landline in town cost me around $28 four years ago. I hear Bell offers cheaper landline packages but I can't get the Loyalty dept to admit that.

[Fisherman]

Not to highjack the thread but has anyone found a solution to a landline. My cell phone signal is intermittent in the country so I can't just kill the landline. Bell charges me $60 for a Bell Light package......Light alright.... I'm missing $60 a month that's why it's light. My landline in town cost me around $28 four years ago. I hear Bell offers cheaper landline packages but I can't get the Loyalty dept to admit that.

Have to checked into Wilson Cell boosters, they have auto and home devices that are quite amazing. I use one at the camp on the shores of G Bay where there is almost no signal without it. When going up to bird camp about 40 km off the highway northeast of Eldee I can still text and call the wife.

[smitty55]

Boy I guess I have it good compared to some of you. I don't have a cell phone, never felt the need to have one. My wife has one for her business use. I'm in the country but luckily my neighbour two doors down is a satellite nerd with a 100ft tower on his property. He supplies internet to a number of homes in the neighbourhood. Right now for $25/mo I get wireless unlimited 4.5Mb down and 1.7 upload which does me just fine. I can download movies etc at 500KB which is ok by me. Come spring he has some new radios with higher bandwidth and he will run fiber along the back fence line and then up to the house which will be super fast in comparison. I got rid of my bell landline two years ago (save $60/mo) and now use a OOMA voip phone which costs me 4.50/mo. It works great, free long distance in Canada and I haven't had a spam call since. I also use PIA vpn at a cost of $70 for 2 years.
The only cost I'd like to reduce is my Bell TV, but come spring with the new fiber and increased bandwidth I will seriously consider going to an android box so long as I can still get live sports. Right now wifey just hooked up a Roku stick to her tv that is working not bad but does get a tad slow at night sometimes.

Cheers

[Bushmoose]

Boy I guess I have it good compared to some of you. I don't have a cell phone, never felt the need to have one. My wife has one for her business use. I'm in the country but luckily my neighbour two doors down is a satellite nerd with a 100ft tower on his property. He supplies internet to a number of homes in the neighbourhood. Right now for $25/mo I get wireless unlimited 4.5Mb down and 1.7 upload which does me just fine. I can download movies etc at 500KB which is ok by me. Come spring he has some new radios with higher bandwidth and he will run fiber along the back fence line and then up to the house which will be super fast in comparison. I got rid of my bell landline two years ago (save $60/mo) and now use a OOMA voip phone which costs me 4.50/mo. It works great, free long distance in Canada and I haven't had a spam call since. I also use PIA vpn at a cost of $70 for 2 years.
The only cost I'd like to reduce is my Bell TV, but come spring with the new fiber and increased bandwidth I will seriously consider going to an android box so long as I can still get live sports. Right now wifey just hooked up a Roku stick to her tv that is working not bad but does get a tad slow at night sometimes.

Cheers

I lost you right after the "boy I guess" ?

[SongDog]

I pay about $95 for 10gig data, unlimited text calling with bell. Although I had $285 over data charge last month, not sure what from either lol