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Fido, Koodo add $5/mo for 12 months discount to match Virgin Plus

Koodo and Fido have rolled out new bill credits to match a Virgin Plus offer launched over the weekend.

As a quick refresher, on July 29th, the Big Three flanker brands launched new $60/mo 20GB plans in most provinces (Quebec, as usual, has better deals). The next day, the three providers quickly added $55/10GB plans. At the same time, Bell’s Virgin Plus added a $5/mo bill credit to the $60/20GB and $55/10GB plans. The bill credit runs for 12 months, giving customers a $60 total discount.

Koodo’s $5/mo discount

Now, Telus’ Koodo and Rogers’ Fido have added similar discounts. Like Virgin, Koodo’s bill credit comes as a $5/mo discount for 12 months ($60 total). Koodo’s website notes that the discount only applies for customers who bring their own phone (dubbed BYOP). Moreover, the provider notes that “some offers may be offered online exclusively,” although I don’t see anything indicating the $60 credit is online-only.

Fido’s $5/mo discount

Fido, on the other hand, explicitly states the $5/mo credit is only available online, and customers need to enter code ‘PROMO5’ to get it. Although the website isn’t clear about the duration of the $5/mo discount, when you enter the promo code, it does state the discount lasts for 12 months (again, $60 total).

Ultimately, $5/mo off is $5/mo off, even if it’s only for 12 months. Still, since all these plans are BYOP, customers aren’t on a contract and can freely leave after 12 months if they want. (Anecdotally, if I were grabbing one of these plans, I’d add a reminder to my calendar 10 months from now to give me a two-month head start on hunting for a better deal to grab before the $5/mo credit expires.)

Anyway, you can grab one of these plans from Fido, Koodo, or Virgin Plus. It’s not clear how long the discounts will stick around, however, and some of the providers mark the plans as limited-time offers, so you may want to hurry.

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Koodo ‘Data Days’ return, offering 1-10 GB add-ons for $1-10/month

Koodo has brought back its ‘Data Day’ promotion, giving customers the chance to purchase data add-ons at reduced costs.

As first shared by RedFlagDeals user jshmeek, Koodo has been texting some customers about the offer, which allows you to add 1GB of extra data for $1 per month, up to 10GB for $10. This is a change from previous add-on deals, which required you to pick from preset data quantities, like 1GB, 2GB or 10GB.

Multiple other RedFlagDeals users responded in the thread to confirm they’ve also received the Data Day text. However, some Montreal users noted that they got a Data Day text offering the same deal for $2, not $1.

For what it’s worth, I’m on Koodo in Ontario and haven’t gotten any variation of this Data Day message. In general, it’s unclear what customers it’s being sent to, so your mileage may vary.

“To add an extra 1GB of data for $1 per month, reply FLASH1. For an extra 2GB for $2, reply FLASH 2 and so on up to 10GB for $10,” reads the text. The message adds that the deal ends on August 3rd at 11:59pm PT/August 4th at 2:59am ET.

Source: RedFlagDeals — jshmeek Via: iPhoneinCanada

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Koodo, Fido, Virgin Plus offering $45/15GB, $55/20GB plans in Quebec

Koodo, Virgin Plus, and Fido logos on smartphones.

Over the weekend, MobileSyrup detailed some promotional plans on offer from the Big Three flanker brands. While the $60/20GB and $55/10GB plans are decent offers in most provinces, they don’t count for much in Quebec. Instead, Quebec residents can get better plans ranging from $40/8GB to $55/20GB.

Telus’ Koodo, Bell’s Virgin Plus, and Rogers’ Fido all list these plans (as first spotted by iPhone in Canada), although only the latter doesn’t have them marked as limited-time offers. Moreover, the plans all include unlimited Canada-wide talk and text, among other features.

Let’s take a quick look:

Koodo

Koodo’s Quebec plans as of August 2nd, 2022

Koodo currently offers a $40/mo 8GB plan, a $45/15GB plan and a $55/20GB plan. All three are marked as limited-time offers, with the 15GB and 20GB plans listed as including bonus data. The $45/15GB plan is actually a 9GB plan with 6GB of bonus data, while the $55/20GB is actually a 15GB plan with 5GB of bonus data.

These plans are available here.

Virgin Plus

Virgin’s Quebec plans as of August 2nd, 2022

Virgin Plus also has $40/8GB, $45/15GB and $55/20GB plans. All three are limited-time offers, although Virgin only lists the $55 plan as having bonus data (specifically, it’s a 15GB plan with 5GB of extra data).

You can check out the plans here.

Fido

Fido’s Quebec plans as of August 2nd, 2022

Finally, Fido has all these plans as well, although it doesn’t list any of them as limited-time offers. Moreover, Fido doesn’t mark any of the plans as having bonus data. The plans are just straight up $40/8GB, $45/15GB, and $55/20GB.

Check them out here.

It’s worth noting that if you click through and don’t see the prices, you’ll want to make sure your region is set to Quebec by clicking the drop-down menu in the top-right corner of each provider’s website and selecting ‘Quebec.’ You can check out the Ontario plans here.

Via: iPhone in Canada

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Koodo, Fido add $55/10GB plans to match Virgin Plus

Yesterday, the Big Three flanker brands — Telus’ Koodo, Rogers’ Fido, and Bell’s Virgin Plus — rolled out new $60/mo 20GB promotional plans. At the time, Virgin also offered a $55/mo 10GB plan, and now Koodo and Fido have added matching plans.

First, let’s talk about Virgin’s plan. The Bell flanker brand lists the $55/mo 10GB plan as a limited-time offer with a $5/mo bill credit for 12 months. It’s only available for new bring-your-own-phone (BYOP) activations.

Although the website isn’t entirely clear, it looks like the $5/mo discount applies on top of the $55/mo price, which means you’ll pay $50 for 10GB for 12 months. That pricing wasn’t reflected when I tried to check out with the plan, but a sales representative confirmed that’s how it worked.

Virgin Plus plans as of July 30th, 2022

It’s worth noting that Virgin’s $60/20GB plan similarly includes a $5/mo discount for 12 months, which wasn’t listed on the plan yesterday. That makes the $60/20GB plan from Virgin a better deal than Fido or Koodo since you’ll pay $5 less for the first 12 months ($60 total savings).

Koodo plans as of July 30th, 2022

Next up, Koodo. The Telus flanker brand has offered a $55/mo 8GB plan for a while now, but it has added a $55/10GB ‘promo’ plan too (while writing this article, Koodo updated its website to remove the second $55/8GB plan).

Koodo’s 10GB plan is also a limited-time offer, only available to BYOP customers, and the plan notes that it’s the $55/8GB plan with 2GB of bonus data for 10GB total.

Fido plans as of July 30th, 2022

Finally, Rogers flanker brand Fido appears to have just changed its existing $55/8GB plan to a $55/10GB plan to match the others. The Fido website doesn’t indicate whether the plan is a limited-time offer. Moreover, if you try to get a phone on Fido’s website, the website automatically selects the $60/20GB plan, and there’s no option to choose the $55/10GB plan.

So, it looks like if you want to get either the $55/10GB or $60/20GB plans, Virgin Plus will be the best option. Although the $5/mo bill credit only lasts 12 months, that’s still a $60 savings over Koodo and Fido. However, keep an eye out as the other providers may offer their own credits to match.

You can check out Virgin’s plans here, Koodo’s plans here, and Fido’s plans here. Note that prices may vary by region.

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Koodo, Fido, Virgin roll out $60/mo 20GB promo plan

Just a few days after switching plans around with new $60/15GB and $65/20GB plans, the Big Three flanker brands now have a promotional $60/20GB plan.

As of July 29th, Telus’ Koodo, Rogers’ Fido and Bell’s Virgin Plus all list the new, promotional $60/mo 20GB plan that’s available for a limited time. However, none of the providers listed an end date for the promotion at the time of publication.

Moreover, Koodo and Virgin Plus list the $60 plan as a 10GB plan with a bonus 10GB of data, rather than a flat 20GB plan like Fido offers.

The main upside here is that the $60/20GB plan is a better value than the old $65/20GB plan offered by the three providers. However, anyone who just signed up for the $60/15GB plan may want to look into getting this offer for the extra 5GB of data.

Koodo’s $60/20GB promo plan as of July 29th, 2022.

The downside is that all three providers still offer limited plan options for customers. Outside of the $60/20GB plan, Koodo, Fido, and Virgin don’t have many options for customers looking to buy a phone. Koodo, oddly, only offers the $60/20GB option for bring-your-own-phone (BYOP) customers — those looking to buy a phone get to choose between the recently added $60/15GB or $65/20GB plans.

Fido’s $60/20GB promo plan as of July 29th, 2022.

Meanwhile, if you want to buy a phone from Fido, the only plan you can choose is the new, promotional $60/20GB plan. Virgin Plus, similarly, only offers the $60/20GB plan.

Virgin’s $60/20GB promo plan as of July 29th, 2022.

That said, the three providers sometimes offer a $32/mo talk and text plan with select, low-end phones. Still, options remain limited.

Beyond that, the providers offer several CRTC-mandated ‘starter’ plans, but these are only available for BYOP customers, and some come with limitations like being capped at 3G speed.

Ultimately, if you have the budget for a $60/mo plan and need 20GB of data, these new promotional deals could be a good option for you. But you’ll need to move quickly since it’s not clear how long they’ll stick around.

You can check out Koodo’s plans here, Fido’s plans here, and Virgin’s plans here. Prices may vary by region.

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Koodo emailing customers about $5/mo bill increase starting in August

Telus flanker brand Koodo emailed some customers to warn them of an incoming price increase. According to the email, Koodo will increase the monthly service charge for some customers by $5/mo starting on the August bill.

“As we mentioned on your July bill, the monthly service charge for the above lines on your account will increase by $5/month. You’ll start to see this monthly increase on your August bill,” the email reads.

It’s not clear how many Koodo customers will see the price increase next month. MobileSyrup has reached out to Koodo for clarification about how many customers will be impacted and why the provider is increasing prices.

However, the Koodo customer that shared the email with MobileSyrup is on an older promotional plan Koodo offered a few years ago with 50GB of data. It’s possible the price increases are going out exclusively to customers with promotional plans like this. (Anecdotally, something similar happened to me after switching to a Bell win-back offer — almost a year later, they upped the price of the plan by $3/mo).

As usual, telcos give and take. Koodo recently rolled out new $60/15GB and $65/20GB plans, which are a little better than what the carrier had before. Before that, the provider sent emails to some customers offering them 5GB of free bonus monthly data.

In May, Koodo upped the cost of its tab plans by $4/mo, and in April, it increased the cost of U.S. and international roaming packages.

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Telus, Koodo launch Stream+ bundle with Netflix, Apple TV+, and Discovery+

Telus and its flanker brand Koodo launched a new ‘Stream+’ subscription that allows customers to add a $25/mo bundle with Netflix, Apple TV+, and Discovery+ to their plan.

Telus’ Stream+ service differs slightly from Koodo’s version, as it also includes Telus TV+ and the Vancouver-based national carrier offers a $5/mo discount to customers who get Stream+ when activating or renewing one of its 5G+ or Canada/U.S. Unlimited plans.

Regardless, the main benefit of the bundle is the three included streaming services. Telus breaks down the pricing, noting customers get “Netflix Premium,” which costs $20.99/mo without the bundle, Apple TV+, which costs $5.99/mo without the bundle, and Discovery+, which costs $4.99/mo without the bundle. While the bundle costs $25/mo, all the services on their own would cost $31.97/mo.

Telus Stream+ price breakdown.

Since Netflix offers several subscription tiers, it’s worth noting that Netflix’s website notes what’s included in the $20.99/mo ‘Premium’ tier:

  • Watch on up to four screens at the same time
  • Have downloads on up to four phones or tablets
  • Up to Ultra HD (UHD) quality

Moreover, Telus says that customers who sign up for Stream+ can keep their existing accounts for these services, so if you already have Netflix (for example), you can port your account to Stream+ instead of making a new one. That means you’ll keep your watch history and take advantage of savings.

However, if you’re buying an Apple device, the Stream+ bundle may not be the best deal, at least at first. Apple offers a three-month free trial of Apple TV+ to customers who buy a new Apple device, so you may want to make use of that before getting Stream+.

Finally, it’s worth noting that Stream+ is likely an effort to compete with Rogers and Bell, both of which bundle streaming services with their mobile plans. Rogers offers six months free Disney+ on select wireless plans, while Bell offers 24 months free of its own Crave streaming service (although it’s only the ‘Mobile‘ tier).

You can learn more about Stream+ with Telus here (or here with Koodo).

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Koodo, Fido, and Virgin Plus bring back $65/20GB plan, add new $60/15GB plan

Flanker brands Koodo, Fido, and Virgin Plus have brought back their $65/20GB plans after removing the options earlier this month.

As a quick recap, the three providers offered limited-time, promotional $65/mo plans with 20GB of data (the plans were actually $65/15GB with a 5GB bonus) back in mid-June. At the time, the three providers said the plans would stick around until July 4th — Koodo actually removed its plan a few days after the deadline.

Now those plans are back on the providers’ websites, although only Virgin Plus labelled the $65/20GB plan as a limited-time offer. Moreover, the plans list a full 20GB of data, not 15GB of data plus an additional 5GB like before. Instead, all three providers now offer a separate $60/mo plan with 15GB of data (again, only Virgin Plus lists that plan as a limited-time offer), which appears to replace a $60/10GB plan.

However, this is where the providers differ — Fido and Virgin don’t offer any other plans beyond their typical suite of CRTC-mandated starter plans. Koodo, however, lists several other plans on its website, including some that probably shouldn’t be there.

First, Koodo has a $55/mo 8GB promo plan. This isn’t new — it’s been around since mid-May. Then it appears Koodo still lists the old versions of its plans, $60/10GB and $65/15GB, alongside the new $60/15GB and $65/20GB plans. As per my testing, I’m able to add both new and old plans to my cart and navigate through the checkout process (although I didn’t complete any transactions since I’m not looking to switch at this time).

Presumably, this is just a glitch on Koodo’s website and it will de-list the old plans soon. Either way, if you’re shopping for a plan, make sure you’re picking the right plan, so you don’t end up paying more than you need to.

You can view Koodo’s plans here, Fido’s plans here, and Virgin’s plans here. Note some prices may vary by region.

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Telus, Koodo offering $100 savings to customers who switch

Vancouver-based national telecom Telus and its flanker brand Koodo are offering up to $100 in savings to new and add-a-line customers who switch to either provider by July 11th.

MobileSyrup received a tip about the promo, which is also live on both providers’ websites. Telus even squeezed in a cheeky shot at Rogers, saying “Join Telus and stay connected on an award-winning network that won’t leave you hanging.”

Telus is offering a $50 bill credit and will waive the $50 connection fee for customers who switch to the provider online. That totals $100 in savings. The fine print notes that:

“$100 savings include a $50 bill credit and a waiving of our $50 connection fee. Offer applicable online only on Mobility orders for smartphones and Bring Your Own Device plans. Offer applicable to Mobility consumer accounts only. Offer not applicable to business or Corporate EPP account types. Bill credit will be applied upon order completion and will appear on your first bill after activation. Bill credits are non-transferable, can only be applied to pay for services charges, and carry no cash value after deactivating your services.”

Koodo similarly offers a $50 bill credit and will waive the $50 connection fee for online orders. Koodo notes the offer is only applicable to new activations of eligible “4G LTE speed data plans.”

According to the tip MobileSyrup received, the offer can only be applied to Koodo plans that cost more than $37.50/mo and to Telus plans over $45/mo. Moreover, the offer will expire end of day on July 11th.

Considering there will likely be a swarm of Rogers customers looking to switch after Friday’s outage, this may be a smart move on Telus’ part.

You can check out the Telus offer here and the Koodo offer here.

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Koodo, Fido still offer $65/20GB promo plan slated to end July 4th

Back in mid-June, Koodo, Fido, and Virgin Plus rolled out a promotion that added 5GB of extra monthly data onto each provider’s respective $65/mo 15GB plan, bringing it up to 20GB of monthly data. At the time, all three providers listed the promo as running until July 4th, but only Bell’s Virgin Plus has held to that.

As of July 5th, Virgin Plus no longer lists the $65/20GB promo on its website — instead, it’s back to the $65/mo 15GB plan the provider previously offered.

Virgin Plus $65/15GB plan as of July 5th

Meanwhile, Rogers’ Fido and Telus’ Koodo have removed the July 4th end date from their $65/mo 20GB promotional plans. Both still list the plan as a “limited time offer,” but there’s no longer an end date. In other words, if you wanted to grab this plan and haven’t, now’s probably a good time to get it since it’s not clear how much longer it’ll be available.

Moreover, Koodo and Fido still offer $55/8GB plans, while Virgin Plus does not. These plans aren’t new, but Koodo has listed its $55/8GB option as a “promotion” since discounting it by $1 in May.

Anyway, if you’re looking to get a little extra data for your dollar, now might be the last good chance to get the $65/20GB promo before it’s gone.