Cell Canada

Back To School Student Cell Phone Plans are summarized very well by Firestorm on RedFlagDeals.com. 
Though most of these are better deals than standard market plans, they still pale when compared to corporate plans and employee purchase plans that can be acquired with a bit of homework.  Also, as we recommend in 10 Tips for Saving on [...]

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Canada is soon to be flush with GSM technology based carriers.  This, along with the upcoming significant increase in new carriers born out of the AWS auction, is great news for Canadian mobile consumers. 

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Lost in the excitement of the iPhone launch, the Rogers data plan backlash and the Telus and Bell profit grab has been the news that there will soon be two to three new carriers in each market. These will compete for cellular customers against the incumbents Telus, Bell and Rogers.
This good news for consumers comes [...]

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In the middle of the Rogers and Apple iPhone PR blitz and resulting Canadian consumer rebellion - as evidenced by www.ruinediphone.com’s 60,000-plus signatures - Bell and Telus announced they are going to begin charging for incoming text messages at 15 cents per message for customers not on bulk text messaging plans.
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The iPhone has finally arrived in Canada with an array of plan options, Bell and Telus have just announced new incoming text message charges, and there will be three new carriers vying for cellular customers by 2010.  It has been an unprecedented few weeks in the Canadian cellular market.  Though there has been a deluge [...]

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Here at Cell Canada, we’ve been engaged in an active debate about whether to go the Bell & Samsung Instinct route or the Rogers & iPhone route. 
Crunchgear ran a comparison on the two and summarized the features in this table:
 

Feature

iPhone

Instinct

Virtual QWERTY

x

x

Visual voicemail

x

x

Video recording
 

x

Camera

x

x

Web browser

x

x

Voice navigation
 

x

3G
 

x

WiFi

x

 

Bluetooth

x

x

Expandable memory
 

x

Streaming multimedia
 

x

Email

x

x

SMS

x

x

MMS
 

x

True GPS
 

x

Music

x

x

Maps

x

x

Mobile TV
 

x

YouTube

x

 

Live home view
 

x

 
The iPhone in the comparison was [...]

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The story of Bell and Telus introducing a 15 cent charge for incoming text messages has been widely covered with the usual man-on-the-street interviews.
Hyperbole flies on either side.
The press finds lost soul txtrs that will see charges in the hundreds of dollars. Please someone tell these people that they can add unlimited texting to [...]

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