NEW Monthly Prepaid Plans

[live_strong]

FIDO will be launching two new monthly prepaid plans March 28th in order to remain competitive in the changing Canadian Wireless Industry. The existing City Fido prepaid plan will remain unchanged. The addition of these new price points allow FIDO to cover all monthly price points with both prepaid and post paid.

$19
50 daytime minutes (local)
300 evening/weekend minutes (local)
50 outgoing text messages (Canada-wide)
unlimited incoming text messages

$29
100 daytime minutes (local)
1000 evening/weekend minutes (local)
100 outgoing text messages (Canada-wide)
unlimited incoming text message

both plans will include
call display
voicemail
call waiting
call forward
billing by the minute

activation bonus
$10 activation credit
$15 bonus credit if activation is done online or e-mail address is registered with account
requires purchase of new FIDO handset

Overage
$0.40/minute (local)
$0.15/message (Canada-wide)

Vouchers
$10, $20, $30 and $50

[kochi1984]

I like the 19 dollar prepaid one. Might get one for my mom

[Fritz Z24]

Pretty nice, for those who, unfortunately, aren't eligible to go on a monthly plan. This should be a great alternative for certain potential subscribers (teenagers by exemple) where their parents are tight on budgets. So great combinaison of phones such as Motorola W388 Renew+ @ 65,00$ and these prepaid price plans.

[Fritz Z24]

I'm curious if this extra 15,00$ bonus will also be implement with the City Fido Prepaid Plan as well?

...The existing City Fido prepaid plan will remain unchanged. ...$15 bonus credit if activation is done online or e-mail address is registered with account...

[PhoenixStorm713]

If they had similar add ons like Virgin's PrePaid it would be better. I'm always recommending Virgin's $30 PrePaid plan (100 daytime, 1000 eves/wknd) or the $40 plan (100 daytime, unlimited even/wknd).
Fido's $29 plan sounds good with the 100 sent texts. But Virgin has add-ons, 100 extra mins/$10 or Unlimited Incoming/$10. If Fido had those options, I know a bunch of people who would be interested (these people don't like Virgin much).

Fido should offer those add-ons, even at $15.....

[kEiThZ]

I poked around the website. Couldn't find an answer. What's the data options for Pre-paid? Are they the same as post-paid or is data restricted to pay-per-use?

[JFrosty]

Anything new coming for postpaid plans?

[Fritz Z24]

Only option available is the Daily Data Pass at 1,00$ per day. this option allow unlimited web browsing for 24 hours.

I poked around the website. Couldn't find an answer. What's the data options for Pre-paid? Are they the same as post-paid or is data restricted to pay-per-use?

[bensoncv14]

FIDO will be launching two new monthly prepaid plans March 28th in order to remain competitive in the changing Canadian Wireless Industry. The existing City Fido prepaid plan will remain unchanged. The addition of these new price points allow FIDO to cover all monthly price points with both prepaid and post paid.

$19
50 daytime minutes (local)
300 evening/weekend minutes (local)
50 outgoing text messages (Canada-wide)
unlimited incoming text messages

...

both plans will include
call display
voicemail
call waiting
call forward
billing by the minute
...

Doesn't the $ 19 pre-paid plan make the $ 15 post-paid monthly plan kind of redundant ?

Ofcourse the $ 15 post-paid plan is billing by the second & the $ 19 pre-paid plan is billing by the minute...but for 4 bucks extra you get 300 E/W mins plus CID/VM ( $ 10 value ) ...not bad for very light or emergency call users who only need a phone to contact someone in the case of urgency/emergency.

I think they should start throwing in 300 E/W mins in the $ 15 monthly plans as well .

Are the evening mins for the $ 19 plan starting at 6.00 PM or 7.00 PM and is it it upto 7.00 AM or 8.00 AM the next day ??

[bensoncv14]

FIDO will be launching two new monthly prepaid plans March 28th in order to remain competitive in the changing Canadian Wireless Industry. The existing City Fido prepaid plan will remain unchanged. The addition of these new price points allow FIDO to cover all monthly price points with both prepaid and post paid.
...

activation bonus
$10 activation credit
$15 bonus credit if activation is done online or e-mail address is registered with account
requires purchase of new FIDO handset

" requires purchase of new FIDO handset
"

So just purchasing a FIDO SIM & putting it in your existing FIDO handset or unlocked third party handset won't be eligible ?

I believe the SIM is now only $ 10 bucks...as opposed to buying a FIDO handset which should cost atleast $ 50 bucks or more in most cases .

[gelu88]

Sweet.

I currently pay $10 a month pre-paid and it's continually a bit short. though not by much.

given that the $15 pos-paid does not have

call display
voicemail

this seems pretty interesting.

If its even true. we'll see next week i guess

[mmagda]

I'm impressed, a little more value and change [towards] better for those using prepaid service.

[hap86]

The 19 and 29 dollar plans are up on the Fido web site, but if you choose the instant refill option (option 2), they appear to be 6 dollars more:

http://www.fido.ca/web/page/portal/F...o=prepaidPlans

wondering it this is a screwup? Otherwise, why call it the 19 dollar plan if it actually costs 25 dollars?

[gelu88]

Question: how does fido, and specifically this $19 plan, compare to the competition?

and does anyone else have a $15 option that is any better?

[live_strong]

Question: how does fido, and specifically this $19 plan, compare to the competition?

and does anyone else have a $15 option that is any better?

depends on your usage.
each carrier has it pros and cons, you need to take the time to sit down and compare the plans.
then decide what is the best option for you.