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TELUS introduces unlimited (512Kb) Data Plans

AE_Collector — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:14:52 GMT

I see that TELUS has just added an unlimited/no overages data option where once your full speed allotment is exhausted for the month you will still have much slower data at 512Kb to keep you going. This one-ups Bell & Rogers version of this plan that drops data speed to 256Kb. As far as I know this is the first time TELUS has offered endless data so I can’t help wondering if down the road PM may offer some plans with similar arrangement.

Terry

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bridonca — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:21:05 GMT

That is over 165 GB for the month if you are leeching flat out!

What is the lowest priced plan though?

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will13am — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:20:47 GMT

I am going to guess Public Mobile will not follow the same course. This is a sub brand of Telus, intended for a different segment of the market. Overlap would make little sense as those Telus plans are expensive. This brand is for those wanting to spend a lot less every month on their cell bill.

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mojorising — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:21:45 GMT

@AE_Collector wrote:
I see that TELUS has just added an unlimited/no overages data option where once your full speed allotment is exhausted for the month you will still have much slower data at 512Kb to keep you going. This one-ups Bell & Rogers version of this plan that drops data speed to 256Kb. As far as I know this is the first time TELUS has offered endless data so I can’t help wondering if down the road PM may offer some plans with similar arrangement.

Terry

Looks like the Big 3 are all going after Freedom Mobile.

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Tammy3 — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:27:07 GMT

I wish them the best then. I am moved over from Freedom and my calls were constantly getting dropped and service was sketchy in popular areas.

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GinYVR — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:28:06 GMT

In case those who are interested here is Telus' page about the plan.

This conicides of the CRTC annoucement.

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srlawren — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:45:13 GMT

@AE_Collector wrote:
I see that TELUS has just added an unlimited/no overages data option where once your full speed allotment is exhausted for the month you will still have much slower data at 512Kb to keep you going. This one-ups Bell & Rogers version of this plan that drops data speed to 256Kb.

@AE_Collector a small step in the right direction but still far too slow for anything but simple email and instant messaging, IMHO. This is 1/6th the speed of PM's throttled "3G" speed plans offered today. Yikes.

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AE_Collector — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 02:53:40 GMT

@srlawren wrote:

@AE_Collector a small step in the right direction but still far too slow for anything but simple email and instant messaging, IMHO. This is 1/6th the speed of PM's throttled "3G" speed plans offered today. Yikes.

Oh for sure, it’s just “emergency only data”, significantly slower than PMs “3G like” data speeds. I think it is after using 10 Gb of LTE data at Telus so in my mind that is just a nice insurance policy where 10 Gb is usually more than enough so you don’t bother to pay close attention and suddenly get a big data overage bill. Or on plans like PM’s, suddenly your data quits working when you burn it all up a couple of days too soon. Suddenly 512 Kb speed would be a whole lot better than 0 Kb!

Re: TELUS introduces unlimited (512Kb) Data Plans

AE_Collector — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:45:51 GMT

@bridonca wrote:
That is over 165 GB for the month if you are leeching flat out!

What is the lowest priced plan though?

@bridonca $75 for 10 Gb of LTE then 512 KB speed until the end of the month.

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AE_Collector — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:57:37 GMT

@will13am wrote:
I am going to guess Public Mobile will not follow the same course. This is a sub brand of Telus, intended for a different segment of the market. Overlap would make little sense as those Telus plans are expensive. This brand is for those wanting to spend a lot less every month on their cell bill.

Yes quite possibly they will not go that route. I am a little surprised that PM resists offering a plan larger than 8.5 Gb but that may have been to avoid getting too close to TELUS big $ Plans. Now that TELUS is offering unlimited data, rather than an unlimited data offer from PM maybe they might offer a larger data plan for a little higher cost. While 512Kb would likely be somewhat painful, 10 Gb of LTE and then unlimited 512 Kb data speed for $75 is getting closer to PM’s 8.5 Gb of ~3Mb data speed. At the moment though, the unlimited data plans from TELUS are “limited time offers” but time will tell.

Terry

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AE_Collector — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 01:02:06 GMT

@Tammy3 wrote:
I wish them the best then. I am moved over from Freedom and my calls were constantly getting dropped and service was sketchy in popular areas.

@Tammy3 I am not 100% certain whether you are saying you moved to PM because of those problems at Freedom OR you moved to PM and are having those problems here. I think you mean those problems were at Freedom.

Terry

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Tammy3 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:58:02 GMT

That is correct my problems were at Freedom.

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Andrea-N — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:27:12 GMT

It’s possible but I don’t think so. I have 4.5 G and I never use the entire thing but the main thing that keeps people here and brings others here is the amazing amount of data u get for the price and no hidden fees. I’m not sure if any other company has this and as cheap too. Who knows but if they did it wouldn’t b smart business