JF Mezei

Was comparing puhblished rates between Fido and Rogers and it turns out
that Fido still has a huge advantage in many areas.

GPRS: when roaming in the USA, Fido doesn't differentiate and you use
your GPRS plan, whereas for Rogers, they charge $0.40 per KB when
roaming ! (what a ripoff).

Also, when roaming for voice:

Fido : 0.50 per minute + either 0.20 or 0.30 for long distance
(incoming and outgoing rates).
Rogers: 0.95 per minute + 0.25 or 0.75 for long distAnce (incoming and
outgoing rates)

One area where Rogers *may* have an edge:

For $7.00 on Rogers, you can call Australia for 0.06 per minute.
For $3.00 on Fido, you can call Australia for 0.10 per minute.

(Both charge $0.44 per minute to australia if yo don't have a long
distance plan).

Fido no longer has roaming packages for the USA. Rogers does have a
couple, including one which , for $40 option, you can have 60 minutes of
roaming in the USA (so you are not charged the $0.95 + long distance)
for those 60 minutes, and after you have consumed those 60 minutes, you
are only billed 0.95 per minute and no long distance.

Obviously, corporate users probably get neat deals with Rogers.

 

Harry Eugene Ly

Another advantage of Fido is the grandfathering of their cheap plans such as
the unlimited GPRS plan, the CityFido unlimited plan, etc. which Rogers is
trying to do their best to scrap since Rogers doesn't have any unlimited
GPRS plan and "made" Fido get rid of theirs and they also "made" Fido gut
the original unlimited CityFido plan.



"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> wrote in message
news:44442DAF.99103F2F@teksavvy.com...
> Was comparing puhblished rates between Fido and Rogers and it turns out
> that Fido still has a huge advantage in many areas.
>
> GPRS: when roaming in the USA, Fido doesn't differentiate and you use
> your GPRS plan, whereas for Rogers, they charge $0.40 per KB when
> roaming ! (what a ripoff).
>
> Also, when roaming for voice:
>
> Fido : 0.50 per minute + either 0.20 or 0.30 for long distance
> (incoming and outgoing rates).
> Rogers: 0.95 per minute + 0.25 or 0.75 for long distAnce (incoming and
> outgoing rates)
>
> One area where Rogers *may* have an edge:
>
> For $7.00 on Rogers, you can call Australia for 0.06 per minute.
> For $3.00 on Fido, you can call Australia for 0.10 per minute.
>
> (Both charge $0.44 per minute to australia if yo don't have a long
> distance plan).
>
> Fido no longer has roaming packages for the USA. Rogers does have a
> couple, including one which , for $40 option, you can have 60 minutes of
> roaming in the USA (so you are not charged the $0.95 + long distance)
> for those 60 minutes, and after you have consumed those 60 minutes, you
> are only billed 0.95 per minute and no long distance.
>
> Obviously, corporate users probably get neat deals with Rogers.