Why would a rate plan come with a condition of maintaining a $45 combination? You're not getting a subsidy on it.
They don't come with that condition. I think we are misunderstanding eachother. In order to get any of the new data plans you need a minimum $30 voice plan to be eligable. Unless I'm misunderstanding the website.
They don't come with that condition. I think we are misunderstanding eachother. In order to get any of the new data plans you need a minimum $30 voice plan to be eligable. Unless I'm misunderstanding the website.
You said: No you still need a $30 voice plan to get these new plans. I'm sure exceptions can still be made but it doesn't say anything about the $45 voice/data combo.
So I said: † Offer limited to new clients activating a combination of voice, e-mail & data plans totaling $45 or more. Offer ends March 2, 2008.
To which you said: "Say it all when you combine a smartphone add-on with a voice rate plan of $30 or greater."
Then I replied: Why would a rate plan come with a condition of maintaining a $45 combination? You're not getting a subsidy on it.
You asked about a $45 voice/data combo and I answered it.
I was making a statement that the new plans say nothing about the $45 voice/data combo but that you are required to have a $30 voice plan in order to add one of the new data plans.
I was making a statement that the new plans say nothing about the $45 voice/data combo but that you are required to have a $30 voice plan in order to add one of the new data plans.
Well, the $15 U/L is/was a GREAT plan! I bet they sold a ton of devices because of it over the Christmas Season etc. Crazy like a fox!
Glad I added it in December and I'm going to stick with Blackberrys so I'm never likely going to give it up.......
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Originally Posted by joop88
Let's face it, the $15 plan was a once in a lifetime type of plan for what you got. You can't get data that cheap anywhere in the world and it only happened because of some circumstances that just seemed to come together at the same time. For those of us that got it, we should just count ourselves lucky as it really was a "secret" plan that was never advertised. In fact, I bet the majority of people that did get the plan off the street with the Pearl, Touch and S620 don't even know what they really have and are not even using the browsing bonus (other than using Facebook on their Pearls).
The fact that the new plans are advertised with the unlimited data and also include extras such as VM, CID and texting is revolutionary. It gives clients more value than having to pay for those features separately and also forces the other carriers to respond to these plans as they are advertised to the general public. This will only forces prices even lower in the future, especially with the upcoming spectrum auction and possible iphone release. The new prices are on par with U.S. data plans and may even be cheaper in some cases. It pretty much is the beginning of bringing the Canadian wireless industry up to the standards of the rest of the world.
you people need to learn how to read.
• TELUS Email is NOT a telus supplied email, it is YOUR email using push technology on WM devices.
• Mobile Browser: when you have the Web 30 or 45 plans, the browser includes access to device programs like facebook, bb maps, google maps, etc.
You could also benefit from reading lessons apparently. Telus mobile email PULLS from your POP3 and then, at its' leisure, pushes to your device. So if I send you an email, it doesn't go to your device. It languishes on a server until it gets checked. This is not push.
The Web 30 and 45 plans only allow Pocket IE browsing on Windows Mobile. =Facebook FAIL, Google Maps FAIL, no RSS. They're either horribly rendered or don't work in pocket IE, and if you use the client app or a decent browser you're charged $8/MB.
Also you can't activesync anymore. So no more exchange support, no more push email to windows mobile, and no more keeping your phone current with your work computer unless you're sitting at your desk.
They've completely disabled the core functionality that Windows Mobile was designed for: mobile outlook. Calendar/Contacts/mail are now kludged on as if it was a 2001 Handheld PC, not a wireless pda. Despite the fact that that's what you bought.
Oh yeah and Web 2.0, AJAX, and Flash are out. Welcome to 2002 again.
Translation: this is a totally different plan that has very little to do with the old $15 plan. It's not "almost the same."
25GB Cap? DIY Telnus prepaid/Koodo unlimited EVDO internet (for $10 per 2 months, to keep account "Active"), Max 3Mbps download speed, if you roam on Bell (free), then you get non-NATed IP
mobile files is reopened - Aug 11/2010
HoFo = censorship same as US censor wikileaks = china censor
You could also benefit from reading lessons apparently. Telus mobile email PULLS from your POP3 and then, at its' leisure, pushes to your device. So if I send you an email, it doesn't go to your device. It languishes on a server until it gets checked. This is not push.
The Web 30 and 45 plans only allow Pocket IE browsing on Windows Mobile. =Facebook FAIL, Google Maps FAIL, no RSS. They're either horribly rendered or don't work in pocket IE, and if you use the client app or a decent browser you're charged $8/MB.
Also you can't activesync anymore. So no more exchange support, no more push email to windows mobile, and no more keeping your phone current with your work computer unless you're sitting at your desk.
They've completely disabled the core functionality that Windows Mobile was designed for: mobile outlook. Calendar/Contacts/mail are now kludged on as if it was a 2001 Handheld PC, not a wireless pda. Despite the fact that that's what you bought.
Oh yeah and Web 2.0, AJAX, and Flash are out. Welcome to 2002 again.
Translation: this is a totally different plan that has very little to do with the old $15 plan. It's not "almost the same."
I'm not sure where you are getting your info from, but I'm willing to bet that you are wrong. Firstly, I don't know how they would be able to differentiate the data usage between Opera, Operamini and IE. They all use http protocol, so what's difference? Secondly, it doesn't say just "web browsing", it also says "Application Usage" and explicitly says "Facebook" next to it. So third-party apps are fine. I also think Activesync would work as well with the plans as well, as I don't think Telus can differentiate between the different types of application data. I'm pretty sure we all had the same concerns with the original plan when it came out, but all our concerns had no merit. I think it will be the same with the new plans.
You could also benefit from reading lessons apparently. Telus mobile email PULLS from your POP3 and then, at its' leisure, pushes to your device. So if I send you an email, it doesn't go to your device. It languishes on a server until it gets checked. This is not push.
The Web 30 and 45 plans only allow Pocket IE browsing on Windows Mobile. =Facebook FAIL, Google Maps FAIL, no RSS. They're either horribly rendered or don't work in pocket IE, and if you use the client app or a decent browser you're charged $8/MB.
Also you can't activesync anymore. So no more exchange support, no more push email to windows mobile, and no more keeping your phone current with your work computer unless you're sitting at your desk.
They've completely disabled the core functionality that Windows Mobile was designed for: mobile outlook. Calendar/Contacts/mail are now kludged on as if it was a 2001 Handheld PC, not a wireless pda. Despite the fact that that's what you bought.
Oh yeah and Web 2.0, AJAX, and Flash are out. Welcome to 2002 again.
Translation: this is a totally different plan that has very little to do with the old $15 plan. It's not "almost the same."
You could also benefit from reading lessons apparently. Telus mobile email PULLS from your POP3 and then, at its' leisure, pushes to your device. So if I send you an email, it doesn't go to your device. It languishes on a server until it gets checked. This is not push.
The Web 30 and 45 plans only allow Pocket IE browsing on Windows Mobile. =Facebook FAIL, Google Maps FAIL, no RSS. They're either horribly rendered or don't work in pocket IE, and if you use the client app or a decent browser you're charged $8/MB.
Also you can't activesync anymore. So no more exchange support, no more push email to windows mobile, and no more keeping your phone current with your work computer unless you're sitting at your desk.
They've completely disabled the core functionality that Windows Mobile was designed for: mobile outlook. Calendar/Contacts/mail are now kludged on as if it was a 2001 Handheld PC, not a wireless pda. Despite the fact that that's what you bought.
Oh yeah and Web 2.0, AJAX, and Flash are out. Welcome to 2002 again.
Translation: this is a totally different plan that has very little to do with the old $15 plan. It's not "almost the same."
This is completly incorrect.... The information that other people have post is correct.
The Web 30 and 45 plans only allow Pocket IE browsing on Windows Mobile. =Facebook FAIL, Google Maps FAIL, no RSS. They're either horribly rendered or don't work in pocket IE, and if you use the client app or a decent browser you're charged $8/MB.
Please link your source, Nakoda's information does not limit it to a specific browser, nor does the web-page for 4 plans.
I'm happy I got the old $15/month plan, alot less hassle. Either way, the new plans are a step in the right direction, which will force data to a mob publicly reasonable level.
I just wish they didn't go the way they did with Myfaves.... I was hoping they would have released a $20 dollar version of the nationwide myfaves.
It is a resident program that sits on your device that has to run in background to work, not so disimiliar to Activesync/exchange as items arrive.
It fetches,an poorly at that imo, it may compress an cut data for telus, but it is slow,cumbersome and adds a signature of its own to all outgoing emails.
This is not freedom, it stinks.
Long live my 4 Current PDA's on the same plans, all last year as this unlmtd started flying. Exxchange server with active sync rocks, its dang fast, from my desktop to my pda once sent in less then a few seconds, TME, um, well, fastest i got was 5 minutes.
Originally Posted by SuperCM
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