Fido still the best

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.

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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" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> 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.

rogers is ruining it all


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> rogers is ruining it all

Not "all". Fido still has many advantages. But Rogers did terminate
plans that compete at the business level (such as data-only plans which
Fido used to have, Fido doesn't support blackberries etc etc).

In fact, one 4 legged furry CSR told me that Fido was aimed at teenagers
and folks below 30 and no longer providing "business" services, nor
focusing on high end handsets.


At the height of Rogers's assimilation into AT&T, it shared not only
advertsing, but also various plans such as one that had no roaming
charges on Rogers or AT&T. When AT&T was forced to divert of its Rogers
holdings (as part of its purchase by Cingular), it appears that Rogers
also lost good roaming in the USA since it now charges significantly
more to roam in the USA than Fido does. (0.95 per minute versus Fido's
0.50 per minute).

But the Rogers/Fido roaming does include a whole plethopria of networks
in the USA. (whereas in the past, Roger's deals inluded only AT&T, and
Fido excluded AT&T).