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The best phone plans for all (Cheapest for 1GB of data)

fixin1 — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:00:35 GMT

Here is 9 carriers (Another 4 in another grid)

Category	TELUS Mobility	Bell Mobility	Rogers Wireless*	Koodo Mobile	Virgin Plus	Fido Solutions*	Public Mobile	Lucky Mobile	Chatr Wireless*
Price for at least 1GB of data	$35	$30	$50	$25	$30	$34	$21 ($19 for 90 days) $29 ($25 for 90 days)	$25	$25
Data	1GB (3GB autopay)	5GB (10GB autopay)	60GB	500MB (1GB autopay)	500MB (1GB autopay)	20GB	3GB (9GB 90) ** 20GB (60GB 90 days)	500MB (1.5GB autopay)	500MB (1GB autopay)
Calling minutes?	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-Wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-Wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.
Text features?	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS.	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS.	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS.	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited International SMS (Not sure if MMS is supported)	Unlimited International SMS & MMS
Price for cheapest plan?	$15	$20	$35	$15	$15	$15	$15	$15	$15
Data amount?	0GB (250MB autopay)	0GB (250MB autopay)	0GB	0GB (250MB autopay)	0GB (250MB autopay)	250MB	0GB (200MB for $5/month)	0GB (250MB autopay)	0GB (250MB autopay)
Calling Minutes?	100 Canada-wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes.	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.	100 Canada-wide minutes.	100 Canada-wide minutes.	100 Canada-wide minutes.	Unlimited Canada-wide minutes.	100 Canada-wide minutes.	100 Canada-wide minutes.
Text features?	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS.	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS.	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS.	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS.	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited International SMS (Not sure if MMS is supported)	Unlimited International SMS & MMS

* NOTE: Rogers & Fido has no more Prepaid options anymore (All others are prepaid plans) they all want you to go to Chatr for prepaid plans

** The $21 3GB plan is for New Activations Only.

I also included the New No Name™ Mobile to the group below!

Category	No Name™ Mobile	PC® Mobile	Freedom Mobile	Fizz Mobile
Price for at least 1GB of data	$19	$20	$19	$19
Data	1GB (2GB autopay)	0GB (1GB autopay)	1GB	2GB
Calling Minutes?	Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes.	Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes.	Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes.	Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes.
Text features?	Unlimited International SMS (Not sure if MMS is supported)	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited Canada-wide SMS & MMS (Unsure if International works)
Price for cheapest plan?	$19	$20	$19	$7
Data Amount on cheapest plan?	1GB (2GB autopay)	0GB (1GB autopay)	1GB	0GB
Calling Minutes on cheapest plan?	Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes.	Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes.	Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes.	0 Canada-Wide Minutes.
Text Features on cheapest plan?	Unlimited International SMS (Not sure if MMS is supported)	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	Unlimited International SMS & MMS	0 Canada-wide SMS & MMS (Unsure if International works)

Updates:

Update 1 (2024/04/27): Changed the $15 plan on Public Mobile to accurately represent the new plan. Also Public Mobile is now taking the lead on the $21 3GB plan.

Re: The best phone plans for all (Cheapest for 1GB of data)

anotheran — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:16:04 GMT

Pretty cool. Thanks! If there was a roaming row with yes/no, that would totally help me. Right now I'm considering koodo once the legacy system ends

Re: The best phone plans for all (Cheapest for 1GB of data)

fixin1 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:38:22 GMT

@anotheran - I will think of making a chart with roaming! Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: The best phone plans for all (Cheapest for 1GB of data)

RetiredGuy1 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 19:13:52 GMT

Thanks for this @fixin I can’t tell you how many times I’ve come back here to refer to it. Its very helpful. I’d give you 2 thumbs-up if I could!

Re: The best phone plans for all (Cheapest for 1GB of data)

fixin1 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 19:16:50 GMT

@RetiredGuy1 - Your welcome! I will continue all of these carrier comparisons.

Re: The best phone plans for all (Cheapest for 1GB of data)

RefugeefromPM — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:22:22 GMT

In the first years that Public mobile was relaunched as totally online, we asked or they introduced prepaying for 3 months for a bigger discount. We pushed for 6 months or maybe even a 1 year of prepay for steeper discount.

They did the 3 months then took it away.

Well for the last year or two Freedom Started offering to prepay for a full year for extremely steep discounts with decent amounts. They introduced it for $100. Its now 149.00 for the year. as a introductory offer.

Dont know how long they will have it. But at this point Telus in a total non competitor, in the Budget Market. If I knew about the $100 deal I would of left last year.

I dont even know if there is any point in staying even with my bonus data and international long that I earned from the past, as I will be paying more for just 1 GB of 3G data, not even 4G

Re: The best phone plans for all (Cheapest for 1GB of data)

Nailuj — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:45:49 GMT

I'd love the option to subscribe for a year to get a discount or reward. A real subscribtion that won't expire or change. It see