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Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

ericdvan — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:32:58 GMT

Was just wondering what would be the advantages and disadvantages to switch to koodo? I have the 12GB/120$ three month plan but could switch to koodo for 4GB/40$.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

Luddite — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:46:10 GMT

Koodo $3 more - no autopay, no loyalty

How to chose? Koodo offer is 4 gb monthly not 12 gb every 90 days, includes Canada wide calling but excludes call forwarding ($3/month when you need it).

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

torontokris — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:59:03 GMT

@Ludditewrote:
Koodo $3 more - no autopay, no loyalty
How to chose? Koodo offer is 4 gb monthly not 12 gb every 90 days, includes Canada wide calling but excludes call forwarding ($3/month when you need it).

Koodo has potential for a tab / buy a phone as well. The promo is only small tab though I believe. But if there are deals on phones you can get them.

Canada wide is another big one. And $7day usa or $10/day/international roaming . Although PM $20/10 day usa is good as well. Public has usa calling add-ons that don't expire. Koodo is 50cents per minute or $10/unlimited. PM has Canada wide plans but if we are comparing the 4gb $40 plan to Koodo PM is province wide only

Personal choice however if you need a tab/phone or roam/call across Canada Koodo maybe better.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

ericdvan — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:32:37 GMT

Ok cool. I don't really care if they don't offer call forwarding. Also it's 25$/month off for the first four months I believe. And international roaming could be very useful for me as I travel and I might need a new phone in the future so small tab could help. My main reason for wanting to switch is: a) I feel like they are planning to get rid of public mobile eventually b) they are gonna offer this year VoLTE and VoWifi, something that public will never offer c) I was insured by koodo rep that price will never change (look at the picture) unlike what public tried to do anf probs will try something similar down the road. What are your thoughts??

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

torontokris — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:37:44 GMT

Don't be inspired by what the Koodo rep says. As we all learnt they can change our plans with 30 days notice.

Koodo has been good with not upping the price of plans. However doesn't mean it will always be that way

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

tzliu — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:44:23 GMT

Depending on how Koodo will appy the $100 credit, there is a big difference between post tax and before tax. I suspect they will apply the credit post tax which means you only get $88.50 in Ontario. Deducting the cost of $15 for the sim card, you would have a credit of $73.50 before tax.

Besides autopay and referal credits, unless March 15th is your PM renewal date, then you will have to figure in how much you will leave to PM plus any unused add-ons.

Will wait and see when TELUS will start to force everyone out of PM.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

PhoneSeeker — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:04:06 GMT

@torontokriswrote:
Don't be inspired by what the Koodo rep says. As we all learnt they can change our plans with 30 days notice.

Koodo has been good with not upping the price of plans. However doesn't mean it will always be that way

Telus/Koodo management might be bitter about the PM backlash, so they could also increase the rates of the Koodo-PM switch plan after a few months to squeeze more money out of us!

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

MoFromTo2016 — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:57:10 GMT

No VoLTE and WIFI-Calling so this is why I’m staying with PM.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

kav2001c — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:54:46 GMT

@ericdvan main advantages are long distance cross Canada & option to subsidize hardware

Other than that just a few small things (eg voicemail) are better at Koodo

The pricing $40 for 4GB is a good offer for a legit (non loophole) plan

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

MoFromTo2016 — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:58:25 GMT

How is voicemail better at Koodo? I doubt the plan comes with visual voicemail. Do you have any idea when they will be adding VoLTE and WI-FI Calling?! Thanks.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

kav2001c — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 02:07:26 GMT

@MoFromTo2016 you can pay extra to get the upgrades (IF you need / want it, I am more than happy with the 25 message system here)

Things like iPhone Visual Voicemail are popular to many people

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

Mana — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 02:30:57 GMT

Koodo has always seem a little shady to me.

I wouldn't be surprised once they get all the PM customers, they turn around and raise the price after the first couple of months.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

makkahn28 — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 02:52:38 GMT

My sentiments exactly

now if "SHE" Ran things, well, I'd say we'd be in EXCELLENT hands

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

Shutdown — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 03:06:55 GMT

Koodo advantages: Canada wide calling/International roaming assuming you want that/monthly plan allows you to switch to other carriers easily and with post paid they are suppose to refund the unused days when you switch/International calling can call A LOT more countries then PM can

Disadvantages: Surprise bills since it's not prepaid you could get surprised with a huge bill especially with the calling scams going on where people are being charged up2 hundreds $ per minute. It also costs money to call their customer service apparently.

PM advantage: cheaper plan/no surprise bill/cheaper long dist calls that don't expire. Even if you get the international calling add on with koodo that's $3 a month at the $0.05 per min rate it will cost $20 per 400 min vs $15 per 400 min that never expire /cheaper data add on that don't expire $30 per gb vs $70 per gb with koodo.

disadvantage: only province wide calling but that can be compensated with a calling app using data like fongo/Website can be buggy

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

Litvinau_A — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 03:09:32 GMT

If you're switching, go to koodo kiosk and tell them that their customer service told you that sim card will be free. Also, they'll apply $100 to your account at the end of your billing cycle, Which is 24th-25th for them, and youl'll be able to use it towards your $40 bill.

Internet speed on koodo is double what PM is.

And i was told that they'll be able to squeeze you in on a med tab if anything. Either way, who cares about that yet?

You can travel with your phone now.

No rewards - yeah, but you can talk to an actual person. You do get charged $10 only if you're doing changes to your account, which you can do online(web page looks exactly like PM but blue lol)

They stop your data when you run out of it, but you can still send mms, even with no data.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

skifan — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 03:32:44 GMT

I have been getting pretty good speedtest numbers on my new Pixel 2.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

will13am — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 04:21:55 GMT

I see it this way, the only potential advantage is long distance but only if needed and used. The small tab is weak sauce. It is so tiny that much of the device cost has to be paid up front. Most if not all promotional offers are on large and medium tab. If there is a cost advantage to staying, then stay. The only certainty is the savings today While there may be an ominous cloud placed over our heads with what Dave had said in his post, rest assured they will not take draconian measures to remove us from this service again, unless Telus is not a learning organization. Future migrations could very well be on better terms, not worse. In case of emergency, there is always the opportunity of a parachute offered by the competition or a lifeline via Koodo regional plans. For all these reasons, I am staying the course.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

R47 — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 05:04:40 GMT

@Litvinau_Awrote:
Internet speed on koodo is double what PM is.

There's been a fair amount of people testing on the forums every now then, and comparing, the general concensus is that PM customers are getting full, untrottled Telus LTE alongside Koodo.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

BGL — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:58:51 GMT

The issue that has kept me from switching to Koodo is the unbeatable US roaming that Public offers: $8 for 10 days of talk or text; or $20 for 10 days of talk+text+data. Koodo's $7/day is a massive difference (a $50 difference for 10 days of talk+text+data, to be exact!!!) -- I would never pay it and would get a US sim card instead with tracfone.

Re: Koodo advantages/disadvantages?

ericdvan — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 05:15:39 GMT

@MoFromTo2016wrote:
How is voicemail better at Koodo? I doubt the plan comes with visual voicemail. Do you have any idea when they will be adding VoLTE and WI-FI Calling?! Thanks.

Apparently spring 2018 is when VoLTE will be available at Koodo and for VoWifi, it was be different dates for different phones all throughout 2018 and possibly continuing to 2019.