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Mobilicity and Wind offering $45 unlimited plans

January 25, 2011March 28, 2011 Doug Groves competition, data, Mobilicity, smartphone, unlimited plans, Wind Mobile0 comment

Wind Mobile and Mobilicity have been fighting tooth and nail for customers dissatisfied with the Big Three. Given Canadian love-hate relationships with Bell/Rogers/Telus, there’s a large pool to draw from. The latest volley was started by Mobilicity, which introduced a $45 unlimited plan that includes North America wide calling, data, and global text messaging. Not to be outdone, Wind Mobile has also introduced their Winter Wonder Plan, which has the same $45 price tag, and a similar set of features, though unlimited calling is limited to Canada, while Picture Messaging…

Telus finally confirms their iPad plans, NOT offering unlimited data as originally thought

May 31, 2010May 31, 2010 drsquid Apple, Bell, canada, data, data plan, iPad, mobile data, plans, Rogers, Telus21 Comments

The image above, created earlier today, was based on some assumptions taken from Telus’ weekend announcement of their iPad plan. After some speculation on Friday, a press release was sent out on Saturday detailing their offering – a single plan of 500MB for $20, which at the low-end is a much better deal that what Bell and Rogers are offering, and unlike their plans, Telus’ is available post paid (sadly with a $35 activation fee). What was more intriguing though was that overage is charged at 5¢ per MB, ‘up…