Cell Phone

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Hoje, vou compartilhar algo que encontrei sobre planos de celular. Achei interessante e, fica como informação para quem está planejando ir ou está quase partindo para as terras geladas do norte.

O artigo está no site do GlobalNews.ca e, é baseado nos celulares Iphone 6 e Samsung Galaxy S5, comparando preços para esses dois aparelhos nas diversas empresas.

“I’m looking for a new cellphone plan for my mom. She checked her last few bills, and she uses about 450 minutes a month. She sends about 200 texts a month, and she’d need enough data to check email and Facebook throughout the day. We have some friends in the U.S. so she makes long-distance calls a couple times a month. And she’s thinking of buying a new phone—iPhone 6 or Samsung Galaxy S5. So what’s the best, cheapest plan you can offer?”

ROGERS

Best plan base rate: $80 / month
Unlimited airtime across Canada anytime
Unlimited text messaging, call display, voicemail, call waiting, call forwarding
Unlimited U.S. calling add on: $15 / month
Preferred rate plan: $5 / month would make calls to U.S. 10 cents per minute
If no long-distance add-on: 55 cents per minute to the U.S.
Data: 500 megabytes / month
iPhone 6:  $274 with a two-year contract
Samsung Galaxy S5: On sale $99 with a two-year contract
Activation fee: $15
Current promotion: Samsung Galaxy S5 for $99; also offered $20 off the plan for the first five months (which equals a $100 credit)

TELLUS

Best plan base rate: $80 / month
Unlimited airtime across Canada anytime
Unlimited text messaging, call display, voicemail, call waiting, conference calling
Unlimited U.S. calling add on: $15 / month
If no long-distance add-on: $1.50 cents per minute to the U.S.
Data: 500 megabytes / month
iPhone 6:  Retail price of 16 gigabyte model is $750; with two-year contract $265, so the remaining balance of $485 would go on a two-year service agreement on the $80 / month Telus Share Plus Plan
Samsung Galaxy S5: Retail price is $730; with Telus two-year contract it’s $100 and remaining $630 goes on two-year Telus Share Plus Plan
Activation fee: No, but…
SIM card: $10 (for either device)

BELL

Best plan base rate: $80 / month
Unlimited airtime across Canada anytime
Unlimited text messaging, call display, voicemail, call waiting, conference calling
Unlimited U.S. calling add-on: $15 / month
If no long-distance add-on: 50 cents per minute to the U.S.
Data: 500 megabytes per month
iPhone 6:  $264.95 for phone itself with a two-year contract
Samsung Galaxy S5: $99.95 with a two-year contract
Activation fee: Can waive it

KOODO MOBILE

Best plan base rate: $50 / month (this is what they consider a $45/month plan plus $5 for the “medium tab” explained below)
Unlimited text messaging, call display, call waiting, conference calling, voicemail
500 daytime minutes Canada-wide, then unlimited after 5 p.m. and unlimited weekends
Unlimited U.S. calling add on: $10 / month
Long-distance saver add-on:  $3 / month makes calls 5 cents / minute
If no long-distance add-on: 50 cents per minute to the U.S.
Data: 500 megabytes data
iPhone 6: Medium tab $375 (this is what added $5 more to the $45/month plan initially described)
The “medium tab” means Koodo matches 15 per cent of the cost of your monthly plan to pay off the balance of the phone. That plus the $5 “extra” per month means your phone would be paid off in two years.
Samsung Galaxy S5: With medium tab $425
Activation fee: None
No contract: You can cancel at any time by paying off your remaining balance
If bring your own unlocked phone: Free SIM card with activation and 10 per cent discount on the $45/month plan (no contract)

WIND MOBILE

Best plan base rate: $35 / month (with credit check and “pay after” option—just means you pay the bill the month after you use it in case you roam or use features outside your plan there could be extra costs)
Unlimited incoming and outgoing calls Canada-wide
Unlimited international texting, voicemail, caller ID, conference calling, call forwarding, call waiting
Calls to U.S.: 5 cents per minute
Data: 5 gigabytes with “fair usage policy” – This means the monthly data capacity is 5GB for high speed internet access, and if you exceed 5GB, there will be no extra charge, but you will experience slowing down on your data access speed.
iPhone 6: Not available—must buy iPhone elsewhere and frequency of device must be 1700 and 2100 (some iPhone models not compatible with Wind).
Samsung Galaxy S5: Retail price $729; With credit check you can pay $579 up front and then get a $150 Wind tab. This means if you keep your agreement with Wind for two years, Wind contributes 10 per cent of the monthly rate charges before taxes to pay off the cost of the phone.
Activation fee: No, but must buy new SIM card at $25.
No contract: You can cancel at any time by paying off your remaining balance.
If you bring your own unlocked, Wind-compatible phone: $7.50/month for 20 months credit for other features (e.g. the calls to the U.S.). But you cannot use this credit for the basic plan fee, so it’s lost if you don’t use it each month on extra charges or features.

FIDO

Best plan base rate: $50 / month
500 Canada-wide anytime minutes
Unlimited Canada-wide evenings and weekends starting at 5 p.m.-7 a.m.
Unlimited text, picture and voice messaging worldwide as long as you are in Canada to any international number, call display, voicemail
Unlimited U.S. calls: $15 / month unlimited Canada to U.S.
U.S. calls add-on: $5 / month puts them at 10 cents / minute
U.S. calls with no add-on: 45 cents / minute
Data: 500 megabytes
iPhone 6: Sold exclusively in store – no information given on the phone
Samsung Galaxy S5: $400 with two-year agreement on $50 / month plan
No contract: You can pay off the cost of the phone if you want to cancel before two years.
Activation fee: No, but must buy $10 SIM card.
If you bring an unlocked phone: Get 10 per cent off the plan (must still buy $10 SIM card).

VIRGIN MOBILE

Best plan base rate: $80 / month best plan for iPhone 6 or Samsung Galaxy S5 (BUT staff recommends $45 / month plan with iPhone 4S—see below for details)
$80/month plan includes:
Unlimited Canada-wide calling anytime
Unlimited international texting as long as you’re in Canada, call display, voicemail, conference calling, call waiting
U.S. calls: 50 cents / minute
Data: 500 megabytes
iPhone 6: $259.99 with a two-year agreement
Samsung Galaxy  S5: $99.99 with two-year agreement ($699.99 without)
No contract: There’s no tab, so if you want to end the agreement, you pay the remainder of the phone cost depending on how long you have left in your two-year agreement. E.g. after one year, you’d pay $300 in the case of the Samsung Galaxy S5.
Activation fee: $15
If you bring your own unlocked phone or a phone on Bell’s network: $36 / month (for 300 daytime minutes, unlimited evenings and weekends, 300 megabytes described above)

MOBILICITY

Best plan base rate: $45 / month
Unlimited calls Canada-wide, to U.S. when in coverage (make unlimited calls as long as in your local coverage area)
Unlimited international text and picture messaging as long as in coverage area plus caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, three-way calling, voicemail
Roaming: 30 minutes included (outside coverage)
Data:  6 gigabytes per month. Access is unlimited, but if you use all 6GB in three weeks, the rest of the month’s access is slow until the new cycle starts.
iPhone 6: “We don’t sell iPhones.” But you can bring your own iPhone 5, 5S, 5C as those are the models known to be compatible with Mobilicity so far. (Information to come on iPhone 6).
Samsung Galaxy S5: Not available. Must visit Mobilicity store to see what phones they have and pricing (couldn’t offer pricing information on the phone).
Activation fee: None, but need to buy $20 SIM card.
No contract: You can cancel or change plans at any time.

PC MOBILE

Best plan base rate: $39 / month
500 daytime minutes Canada-wide
Unlimited evenings and weekend calls 5 p.m.-8 a.m.
Unlimited international texts, picture and video messaging
Unlimited U.S. calling add on: $10 / month
Calls to U.S. without add-on: $1.50 / minute
Data: 200 megabytes
iPhone 6: Not sold through PC Mobile; agent thought perhaps they would be by end of month. You can bring your own unlocked iPhone and use it with PC Mobile.
Samsung Galaxy S5: Not sold through PC Mobile, but they have S4 at $49.99. BUT since that’s a “newer phone,” they add $7 per month to make it a two-year plan. If you want to cancel, you pay the remainder of the phone’s cost.
If you bring your own unlocked phone: Monthly plan is 10 per cent off
Activation fee: None


O artigo está no link e, foi publicado no site em 23/09/2014.

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