By Adhurim Murtezai

Carriers are in business to make money on consumer service plans… not by selling cell phones.  All carriers subsidize the cost of a handset to entice people to buy a long-term service plan, and they "lock" the phone to make sure the customer can't easily switch to a competing carrier or use it on another company's network.
This is what is happening with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which has seen a slight price drop from $159.99 to $99.99 on a 3-year term at Best Buy, this was for all carriers (Rogers, Fido, Bell and TELUS). However, now that the device has been out for a few weeks we’ll see the price continue to fall.  As evidenced by the above flyer that shows Rogers and Fido will sink to a new Canadian low of $49.99 on a 3 year locked term. We recommend you hold off on this deal as [...]

By Megan Fleet
Carriers worldwide  reel in consumers with the lure of 'free' smartphones but then tie-in customers into long-term service contracts.  Despite consumer clamoring for changes to the service plans... carriers remained steadfast to their service vs. price plans.  Finally Rogers has risen from the carrier masses and began to interpreted and act on the market sensing feedback provided by its customer and target audience base.  Rogers introduces major changes to their service plans.   After all, 4G LTE is not a necessity – it’s a luxury of speed.
Discover how unlocked cell phones empower consumers with the freedom to choose the right carrier with the right service plan at the right price.

So, to save their customers and ensure mobile device sales of the up and coming 4G LTE capable smartphones, the Rogers has rolled out their Ultimate Unlimited Family plans. There are two options which include “extreme” text messaging and unlimited [...]

By Aldo Panessidi
Kudos to Rogers for scaling its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network to reach 11 million Canadians so quickly. As of today, that coverage has been expanded to include service in major Montreal and of island suburbs including Terrebonne, Brossard, Longueil, Laval, and Vaudreuil. At the moment, the LTE network is available to Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto and their environs.  Discover the latest LTE enabled unlocked cell phones.

According to today’s announcement, the mobile carrier will not stop there. The LTE expansion project intends to encompass twenty-five additional Canadian cities in 2012. The company has decided not to fill the public in on what those cities are, but the end game is to have LTE coverage for 20 million Canadian customers by the end of this year.
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By Megan Fleet
Canadian Android fans rejoice! The company’s poster child, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, is no longer exclusive to Bell and Virgin. As of JANUARY 13,2012; the popular smartphone is available to TELUS, Rogers, and Fido. In addition to the end of this era of exclusivity, this change is heralding in the first Android 4.0 device to Canada as well. To this writer, it rings of a changing of the tides for the attitudes of unlocked phones.

At the various carriers and Best Buy, there are many promotions accompanying this release that vie for customers’ signatures on long-term service contracts. Individual carriers are making the device available for a price ranging from $99.99 to $159.99 for a three year contract. For those customers open to the potential high costs of such a long contract, Best Buy is the best bet as it will extend the $99.99 promotion to all carriers.  In [...]

By Megan Fleet
The appeal of Apple and its iPhone, iPad, and other products has often been one of exclusivity.  In the spirit of a handsfree world, Visual Voicemail gives customers access to voicemail without dialing and has been one such feature iPhone users have been able to take advantage of.

Luckily for consumers with both unlocked cell phone or regular  handsets, they already have their pick of Bluetooth and headsets to up their convenience and safety abilities. And, the Visual Voicemail functionality may be coming their way shortly. Recently documents were leaked indicating that Visual Voicemail will become available on select Android phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S 2, the Motorola Droid RAZR as well as the BlackBerry Bold 9900 .

For Canadian customers on the Rogers’ network, they will have the benefit of an in-house developed application. Rumors noted that service should be available in February and will cost the [...]

By Megan Fleet
Some things sound too good to be true. There is always a price to be paid. In the world of smartphones and contracts, the pipers are usually paid with hours of time, creative loopholes for promotional deals, and hidden costs with the long contacts signed to nab the desired handset of choice.
But, for those consumers who are in the market for a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and have avoided these long tied-in contracts or whose contract have come to term, there is a promotion that merits serious consideration.  As of January 13 , Best Buy has made this Android / Samsung poster child available for $99.99. This will require a three year contract, but the offer will extend to all carriers (apparently with the exception of Fido): Virgin Mobile, TELUS, Bell, and Rogers.

This is definitely an option to consider in comparison shopping as the official launch date of the [...]

By Aldo Panessidi
Consumers have long been ahead of the curve in regards to their mobile devices : how they use them, what features they want, how they enhance their mobility with accessories such as stylus & pens, SD micro cards, data cables, desktop chargers, car kits and special glider gloves to make the most of media features etc. The cell phone carriers are slow to innovate their service plans to reflect changed behavior. Instead customers are paying through the nose for not only high end smartphones, but for the outlandish fees assessed for SMS messages, sports updates, and browsing that a typical user does on a daily basis. The fact of the matter is that we do not primary use our phones to talk anymore.
Consumers have voted with certainty and banded with mobile device manufacturers that have made unlocked cell phones available for sale so customers are free to shop [...]

By Adhurim Murtezai

In a mobile tech world brimming with competitive upgrades, rapidly developing technologies coupled with device manufacturers angling to catch consumer's attention and loyalty.  To this end, it is little surprise that carriers who provide service to these devices are desperate to win long term consumer contracts and enterprise business. Especially with the snowballing trend of unlocked cell phones and carrier neutrality amongst the mix to ramp up the competition even more.
So, in the holiday spirit where the newest iPhone 4S, Blackberry Bold 9900, Samsung Galaxy 2 II and Motorola Droid Razr cell phones make their way under the tree along with hands free  Bluetooths headsets and fashion setting protective, cases and skins accessories alike are found as stocking stuffers, these carriers are locked in a game of one 'King of the Hill' to capture the recurring revenue to be had in multi-year service contracts. The preferred method [...]

A new feature coming to Rogers customers is going to greatly increase their ability to utilize their unlocked cell phones such as unlocked Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate 4G and twitter. Customers are going to be able to utilize their phones to send text messages that share photos on the twitter account. Texting is a very popular thing to do throughout Canada, and it comes as no surprise that twitter wanted to And only high popularity of that at this time. It is estimated that Canadians send as many as 8 billion text messages per month. It was announced today that the company is going to allow you to share the photos that you take through text messaging, and as of right now Rogers is going to be the only carrier that is going to be able to provide the service.
It is expected, that if this goes well, that the company [...]

Adding in international Wi-Fi calling option is not something that many people thought that Rogers and Fido would be doing however, it appears to be exactly what they have done, and will be adding a brand-new service for all other users are in a recently launched the international Wi-Fi: how two different price points, including $25 per month and $40 per month which are good for 30 days and will give cell phones such as unlocked HTC 7 Surround that are Wi-Fi calling capable the ability to make calls over the WiFi connection.
Both Rogers and Fido have been working hard to get the rates lower for customers over the course of the last few years, and the additional plans allow them to make calls from around the world should be something that many of them will be interested in. Bringing these great features and calling plans to their networks while [...]