New Rogers UNLIMITED Minutes Plan - $70 (retentions)

[RdotA]

there are two plans in the system both are unlimited local calling the difference is unlimited texts and and one little option i think call forwarding thats about it..but my point was why pay 20 dollars more for texts

[computergeek541]

there are two plans in the system both are unlimited local calling the difference is unlimited texts and and one little option i think call forwarding thats about it..but my point was why pay 20 dollars more for texts

I have the $50 Unlimited Local Calling Plan and can tell you that when switching to this plan, call forwarding was not removed. If call forwarding was really part of my old plan, it should have dissapeared from my account after swtiching if it wasn't included on the $50 plan. This leads me to believe that the normal who called credit and call forwarding credit and feature do get added by default when changing to the unlimited plan (or it could be just because I already had them my account but one would think they would have disspeared when I changed my plan using that rationale).

[theplayground]

Ok let us put all this confusion to rest. I believe that if u switched any of ur voiceplan to this Unlimited $50, u wud still be able to keep ur monthly credits. Alot of u who have,
Incoming
R2R
Early evenings/weekends and so forth credited obviously won't need those credits anymore as u have the Unlimited plan. So the feature credits are of no use with this plan, but ur monthly plan credits stay.
As I mentioned previously, I was offered the same plan with a $5 credit, and yeah call forwarding is included as well if u had it before as a credit.
Voicemail
Call display
Texts
LD
Data
is all extra................
All u are doing is changing ur voiceplan, if u are getting credits for all the add-ons, u can't put these credits towards other add-ons.
I pay $31+ tax for 300minutes and $10 data Flex plan with LD and all the other add-ons. If I was to swith to Unlimited Local $50 plan with a $5 credit I'd be looking at paying $25 more, but I just don't use that many minutes so I didn't feel the need to switch.
$70 for the same plan is a rip-off, even though some of u have mentioned that it was a great offer.
$50 seems very reasonable, but still with Wind, even though their network is crap, they're offering Canada Wide for $45. But I do believe we're getting there slowly but surely with the Reliable Network..............

[next_godfather]

Ok let us put all this confusion to rest. I believe that if u switched any of ur voiceplan to this Unlimited $50, u wud still be able to keep ur monthly credits. Alot of u who have,
Incoming
R2R
Early evenings/weekends and so forth credited obviously won't need those credits anymore as u have the Unlimited plan. So the feature credits are of no use with this plan, but ur monthly plan credits stay.
As I mentioned previously, I was offered the same plan with a $5 credit, and yeah call forwarding is included as well if u had it before as a credit.
Voicemail
Call display
Texts
LD
Data
is all extra................
All u are doing is changing ur voiceplan, if u are getting credits for all the add-ons, u can't put these credits towards other add-ons.
I pay $31+ tax for 300minutes and $10 data Flex plan with LD and all the other add-ons. If I was to swith to Unlimited Local $50 plan with a $5 credit I'd be looking at paying $25 more, but I just don't use that many minutes so I didn't feel the need to switch.
$70 for the same plan is a rip-off, even though some of u have mentioned that it was a great offer.
$50 seems very reasonable, but still with Wind, even though their network is crap, they're offering Canada Wide for $45. But I do believe we're getting there slowly but surely with the Reliable Network..............

I hate to say it, i am a great fan of wind, but how positive are we that if wind will expand their network to all across canada (the costs involved with a nearly a billion bucks- as spent by robellus to expand to hspa)... im sure they will pass the costs down to us, they are doing this for charitable reasons. although as much as I dislike rogers, and as much as i used to be a wind fan boy, but its dis heartening to know that they havent done much as expanding their network to more areas of gta and nearby places like london...feel free to correct me its my two cents

i think in my best opinion, rogers 50 dollar plan is a reasonable offer, because its unlimited, and moreover you wont fall back on to the rogers network in case the wind network has a hiccup. my two cents. im unbiased on this one

[Rogido]

I still think "unlimited" (be it voice or text) is a sales gimmick useful to only a small % of people. I would be much more excited if they introduced something like 750 - 1000 minutes for $30 with CID, VM and 250 Messages included. I think for most people, 1000 minutes a month, for all intents and purposes, is unlimited.

[total hype]

Just got off the phone with relations

Got the following
$50 Unlimited plan
canada wide calling (credit from before)
$15 old VP (10,000txt/mms, VM, CID etc..)
$20 6gb Data (credit from before)
$2.58 (some fee)

$87.58 + tax

Also got the bold 9700 for $99, 3yr renewal.
Very similar to what wind is offering

[migo]

I've already hit over 1000 minutes on Wind. When I had Rogers set up with My5+Worldline, Unlimited Incoming, Unlimited Network Calling and 1000 evening & weekend minutes, I pulled 6000 minutes a couple months. Most of that was talking to my girlfriend. It's pretty easy to hit 4000 minutes if you've got a significant other to talk to. Right now I'm hitting only 1000 because I live with my girlfriend, but it'd be a hell of a lot higher otherwise.

Unlimited is really just the comfort of knowing you don't have to watch your usage, and that's worth a lot. I'd rather pay $35/month for unlimited on Wind, than $30 for 2000 minutes on some other carrier. $5 is worth peace of mind.

250 messages is also on the borderline category, it's a pretty solid number, but it's also not very hard to exceed. 2500 text messages is much more reasonable, and since it's essentially no cost to the carrier, having a cap just prevents excessive use of it. While plans like 2000 or 4000 minutes on CityFido are certainly resonable, as is the 6GB data plan, it's nice knowing that if you have to, you actually can go over.

If it's only unlimited EDGE/2G voice, they also won't be using much bandwidth, and it's easy enough for them to offer.

[Acecontender]

When compared to what is being offered for 50$, you will realize the difference. I definitely understand cheap plans with more value will be good for the masses. People frowned on the city fido plan but after it disappeared, it was surprising to see the prices of the plan and utility going down by the day.

I still think "unlimited" (be it voice or text) is a sales gimmick useful to only a small % of people. I would be much more excited if they introduced something like 750 - 1000 minutes for $30 with CID, VM and 250 Messages included. I think for most people, 1000 minutes a month, for all intents and purposes, is unlimited.

[techfox]

I have a wife and have had girlfriends. I have hit 10K+ mins months on several occasions, but that's on weekends and nights. (I work and have worked, and she works and was in school).

Are you telling me that you're using those minutes during daytime (7am to 6pm) on weekdays?

[Acecontender]

hahah, here's someone who will appreciate unlimited calling

I have a wife and have had girlfriends. I have hit 10K+ mins months on several occasions, but that's on weekends and nights. (I work and have worked, and she works and was in school).

Are you telling me that you're using those minutes during daytime (7am to 6pm) on weekdays?

[techfox]

hahah, here's someone who will appreciate unlimited calling

In case my wife sees this, just want to make clear the girlfriends and wife was NOT at the same time.
I had GFs in the past, and now have a wife.

[JustinCredible]

In case my wife sees this, just want to make clear the girlfriends and wife was NOT at the same time.
I had GFs in the past, and now have a wife.

Bahaha nice save.

[MobileMuck]

In case my wife sees this, just want to make clear the girlfriends and wife was NOT at the same time.
I had GFs in the past, and now have a wife.

Not much makes me break out in laughter around here but this post did the trick. Mental image of techfox meeting the business end of a marble rolling pin after the no doubt young and lovely Mrs. techfox read his post...

[migo]

I have a wife and have had girlfriends. I have hit 10K+ mins months on several occasions, but that's on weekends and nights. (I work and have worked, and she works and was in school).

Are you telling me that you're using those minutes during daytime (7am to 6pm) on weekdays?

The daytime minutes are primarily made up of business calls and being stuck on hold calling a 1800 # to deal with student loan issues. I also quite frequently use daytime airtime for calling Hong Kong - it's nowhere near the 6000 minutes I was hitting, but it can also quite easily rack up to more than whatever is included for daytime minutes under normal situations. Needless to say, the standard 200 minutes with unlimited evenings & weekends isn't quite enough. I had the Rogers retention plan at 250 weekday, unlimited evenings & weekends after 6 and unlimited incoming covering me quite well, but I also had the 6GB data plan and was using VoIP.ms for long distance, so my actual airtime would have been quite a bit higher had I not used VoIP.

I'm using Wind right now, and finding it very useful, particularly with talking to family, and actually most of the calls are during the day and I do very little calling at night.

[Acecontender]

hows the coverage around surrey/delta area?

The daytime minutes are primarily made up of business calls and being stuck on hold calling a 1800 # to deal with student loan issues. I also quite frequently use daytime airtime for calling Hong Kong - it's nowhere near the 6000 minutes I was hitting, but it can also quite easily rack up to more than whatever is included for daytime minutes under normal situations. Needless to say, the standard 200 minutes with unlimited evenings & weekends isn't quite enough. I had the Rogers retention plan at 250 weekday, unlimited evenings & weekends after 6 and unlimited incoming covering me quite well, but I also had the 6GB data plan and was using VoIP.ms for long distance, so my actual airtime would have been quite a bit higher had I not used VoIP.

I'm using Wind right now, and finding it very useful, particularly with talking to family, and actually most of the calls are during the day and I do very little calling at night.