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Phone Bills, 'Bell & Virgin Plus are price-hiking their phone plans.'

fixin — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:55:19 GMT

Original Link: https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/02/15/bell-is-increasing-mobile-plan-prices-this-month/

Virgin Plus & Bell are now implementing price hikes to their existing BYOP plans, one customer said that they have got a $6/month price hike, along with Virgin Plus's $4/month hike. Rogers & Fido recently implemented the hike, but that is for non-contract customers (BYOP).

There is currently no word on Telus & Koodo's implementations, however since the two others are doing it most likely Telus is implementing it too to BYOP plans.

Re: Phone Bills, 'Bell & Virgin Plus are price-hiking their phone plans.'

hTideGnow — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:09:17 GMT

thanks @fixin

yes, that's why I like PM so much. PM never really increase price for existing plans.

Yes, there was an exception, the $10. But I think it makes sense to increase that one. That price really unreasonable low. And I think for the customer, the $15 plan is much better value anyway

Re: Phone Bills, 'Bell & Virgin Plus are price-hiking their phone plans.'

fixin — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:46:06 GMT

@hTideGnow - Yes, that is a benefit of Public Mobile: That they never increase prices at all. That $10 50min calls, 50 texts was cheap. I would agree on the $10/30days plan, the $15 plan is also good for kids getting an phone for the first time since if they use an iPhone, they would need a couple of megabytes of data for iMessage, so 250 is good. A lot of parents have been going for the $15/30days, $24/30days & $25/30days plan.

Re: Phone Bills, 'Bell & Virgin Plus are price-hiking their phone plans.'

Sushi_Combo — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:34:15 GMT

Glad to hear PM does minimal price increase until it is necessary. These annual increases are just too much from the big players.