@Obice wrote:
@darlicious wrote:
@Obice wrote:I wonder what users of third tier services did before third tier services were made available. I guess they either paid the premium because they "had" to or they found other means.
@Obice Users of llimited means either pay/paid for the cheapest available premium plan or go without a regular cellphone service and use a free app and depend on free WiFi. Or do without a cellphone. As many people are completely unaware that third tier providers even exist as I was up until last summer I had telus's cheapest plan $35 p/m no data or long distance calling. Our other phone was with freedom was exactly equal to the $40 pm plan but with coverage within the city, very limited in the rest of canada and poor signal strength at home. In three months since switching both lines the former telus number is now free and building credit (+$10 p/m) and the former freedom number is $22 p/m. A savings of $60 p/m....add the credit in $70 p/m. An 85% reduction in my phone bill. Don't get me started on the fido line that was switched over....
Haha... That last bit made me chuckle. I have a family member on my Fido and they are the only existing member of my account since I am here. They pay what I would grind my teeth to but they appreciate the service (and they have tried PM on my recommendation and they didn't care for it). I'd be with Fido if not for the ridiculous cost, myself - but then I'm sure services like PM would not need to exist if prices were reasonable now would they?
Any way... Before there were third tier providers I was personally switching to every provider there was looking for the "best" service and after not being satisfied with any I was just in between cell service and WIFI service via Fongo.
I look at third tier providers as the big 3 saying "okay, we are going to deprecate most of the services that you complain about paying for and leave you the bare minimum... no excuses not to pay up now."
I will say this, the one thing I miss about Fido is being able to dial 6-1-1 and speak to an actual person, alas, they just make it unreasonably expensive.
- @Obice LOL!!! The one thing I don't miss (actually I don't miss anything about fido) is the 611 service. I have waited up to 2 hours to speak with an agent and generally their incompetence at doing their job was mind boggling. I have had repeatedly had to call them to correct and recorrect billing errors (that were always in their favour). They consistently broke the WCC regulations in almost every section of the code. The agents were not trained in regards to the code and struggled to answer queries in regards to the fido terms of service. And fidos community forum is a complete joke. The only question out of at least 100 it was ever able to come up with an answer for (with more than 1000...not kidding!) Was "Why is fido so f*#$#d?"...which just goes to show that my experience is by no means unique. Once under contract they have no incentive to provide any kind of service over and above what's in your contract and struggled at that...i got so frustrated with overages, overcharging and just plain old shady business practice I chose to buy out the phone rather than continue wasting my time (on average 5 hours a month) on the phone with them. I'm sure if I charged them every month for my timetime wasted....even at minimum wage it would be very different because we would come out even instead of monthly bill shock on my end and the need to calm down and gather my thoughts every month before i dialed 611.
@darlicious wrote:
@Obice wrote:I wonder what users of third tier services did before third tier services were made available. I guess they either paid the premium because they "had" to or they found other means.
@Obice Users of llimited means either pay/paid for the cheapest available premium plan or go without a regular cellphone service and use a free app and depend on free WiFi. Or do without a cellphone. As many people are completely unaware that third tier providers even exist as I was up until last summer I had telus's cheapest plan $35 p/m no data or long distance calling. Our other phone was with freedom was exactly equal to the $40 pm plan but with coverage within the city, very limited in the rest of canada and poor signal strength at home. In three months since switching both lines the former telus number is now free and building credit (+$10 p/m) and the former freedom number is $22 p/m. A savings of $60 p/m....add the credit in $70 p/m. An 85% reduction in my phone bill. Don't get me started on the fido line that was switched over....
Haha... That last bit made me chuckle. I have a family member on my Fido and they are the only existing member of my account since I am here. They pay what I would grind my teeth to but they appreciate the service (and they have tried PM on my recommendation and they didn't care for it). I'd be with Fido if not for the ridiculous cost, myself - but then I'm sure services like PM would not need to exist if prices were reasonable now would they? 
Any way... Before there were third tier providers I was personally switching to every provider there was looking for the "best" service and after not being satisfied with any I was just in between cell service and WIFI service via Fongo.
I look at third tier providers as the big 3 saying "okay, we are going to deprecate most of the services that you complain about paying for and leave you the bare minimum... no excuses not to pay up now."
I will say this, the one thing I miss about Fido is being able to dial 6-1-1 and speak to an actual person, alas, they just make it unreasonably expensive.
