I'm hoping to understand a few things about the increase (and more importantly, the offer to switch to Koodo). I couldn't find a current useful thread regarding the latter, but if there is one please let me know as the two seem to go hand-in-hand. I'm not in PM coverage territory right now so I haven't received any announcement.
I understand my $40 (T&T&1GB) goes to $43 and my friends' $25 (T&T) goes to $28. Am I right that there are 3 options (from the Telus Empire): (a) accept the $3 increase, keep balance and Boosters and everything's the same, or (b) switch to a current plan which will be a lot more expensive for the $25s but only slightly more for the $40 [or cheaper if on 90-day cycle], or (c) accept the Koodo offer? Of course there's also (d) port out somewhere else, but I'm ignoring that for now.
A friend (on PM's $25/mo talk&text) told me she got a text (and now a phone call) to go to her local Koodo. The text includes this, "...switch to Koodo on the exact same plan you're on right now. Plus, we'll pay the cost of your rate plan for 1 month...". I inferred it was Koodo Prepaid but it sounds like Postpaid? It seemed like a no-brainer but I'm not sure it is.
The text implies it's a straight swap and keeps the call centre, which seems unlikely on the face of it, but reading this thread it seems there are additional charges (such as a 46c/mo 911 charge), expensive charges for using the Koodo call centre (enough to make it effectively a self-serve system), and it's POSTPAID(!?) so no Boosters? Plus any Boosters get dropped when you move over (one $25 friend doesn't have one, but the other has most of a 1GB Data Booster).
Is the Koodo offer actually spelled out anywhere? If a $25 T&T customer takes the offer, do they still get unlimited talk & text? Presumably there's no chance of data overage (since no data) but there's also no Booster, right? If there's no Booster with Koodo, the $25 T&T&B customer has to pay for a data plan and the risk of overages? I'm trying to figure out what each of them (and I) give up and gain by switching to Koodo.
For me on $40 T&T&1GB, I think that:
- sticking will cost $43,
- moving to the equivalent 30-day plan will cost $43/mo ($47-$2-$2)?,
- moving to the equivalent 90-day plan will cost $38/mo ($42-$2-$2)? but with a lack of flexibility when I'm away that would end up costing more per year (I did this math with the promo plan last fall and concluded my annual cost would be higher).
- moving to Koodo will cost $40 for I-have-no-idea-what-features
Do I have the numbers and options right? I feel very uncomfortable recommending my $25 friend (the one with no Data Booster) move to Koodo without knowing what they're actually offering. For the $25 friend with a Data Booster it seems like a no-brainer to suck up the $3, but I'm not certain about that.
Thanks for any suggestions you can provide! And as I said, if there's a thread where the Koodo options are discussed, I'm happy to move there for that.
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