rogers vs. telus cellphones

[sidekick]

okay, so my plan is up in a few days on a two year contract with telus (who apparently is on strike now?!) anyway, i was planning on sticking with them and then i walked into a rogers video and looked at their phones and saw their plans and now i'm thinking of switching to rogers.

i want to keep my phone number though and don't know if i can do that if i switch companies.

anyone have any thoughts?

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by Sidekick

(who apparently is on strike now?!)

They're locked out and have been for at least 2 months now...

[James]

you cant switch a telus # to a rogers phone...ive been with telus since i was 16..im happy with it

[sidekick]

i was away for a month...and i guess before that i just didn't notice.

[LDUB]

In respect to your question the CWTA has not yet set a date for number portability although it's been agreed upon by Canadian cellular companies... I haven't been keeping tabs on it though, so a date may have been annouced.

[Alex]

i have 1 cell with telus, 1 with rogers.
telus is waaaaaay better customer service

[sidekick]

buuuump.

help me out fnkers!

[onefour]

rogers is great and its super easy to take advantage of inside promotions there :) but telus prolly does have better customer service, rogers wont help you at all.

[sidekick]

also with rogers i pay 45 bucks and get 150 any time minutes and free evenings and weekends...but with telus i can pay 40 bucks and get 350 any time minutes and free evenings and weekends...

i think i'm sticking with telus.

[amanda rude]

Originally Posted by onefour

:) but telus prolly does have better customer service

NO fucking way.
Telus has not helped me one bit. I bought a 170$ phone and it broke right away. its been a month and a half and there's "nothing they can do" I have this fugly ass loaner phone and its big so I usually leave it at home. Apparently there's "nothing they can do" because it's "not their phone". "It's LG's phone"
They won't offer anything for my troubles and they still don't know approximatley when I'm getting my phone back.

I still don't know if I would switch from telus after my contract is up because every company sounds like it has it's downsides.

[sidekick]

yeah...rogers has some cool phones and they have like 4% more coverage of canada than telus does...however, those are all in the areas that i never go into.

plus telus includes things like voicemail and call waiting in their plans and it's extra if you want those things from a rogers plan. i've also looked at plans from rogers and compared them to telus and telus gives you way more for you money, plus it's easy to add things in like 10 voicemail spots, caller ID, and 100 text messages free for ten bucks, which is pretty good considering 100 text messages would cost you ten bucks on its own.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by rude1

NO fucking way.
Telus has not helped me one bit. I bought a 170$ phone and it broke right away. its been a month and a half and there's "nothing they can do" I have this fugly ass loaner phone and its big so I usually leave it at home. Apparently there's "nothing they can do" because it's "not their phone". "It's LG's phone"
They won't offer anything for my troubles and they still don't know approximatley when I'm getting my phone back.

I still don't know if I would switch from telus after my contract is up because every company sounds like it has it's downsides.

That's true, it's not their phone, it's LG's. they send it in for you for free, and prvide you with a loaner phone... but they don't fix it... The manufacturer of the phone does. From my experience with loaner phones(I've gotten them from telus, bell and rogers) it usually takes atleast a month... think about it, the manufacturer's are all in the US...... Offer you something for your troubles? how old are you, 15? Obviously you're not in touch with the real world.

I'd stick with Telus man... trust me I've been with bell, rogers and telus... telus has been the best customer service, and the best rates... the coverage isn't as good as either, but oh well... it still works everywhere I need it.

[rawb]

telus has shitty phones
ridiculously outdated and cheap
basically it
rogers 'tries', telus seems to be content to rest on laurels, if that makes any sense

[sidekick]

^i've found some cool phones from telus.

[rawb]

i would like to see these phones
so that i may mock them
mock i say
MOCK

[stephen_c]

telus = cdma
rogers/fido = gsm

if u get a cdma fone, i will laugh @ u.

[sidekick]

i like this one best

this one is cool, too

also, this one

the rest are here

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by stephen_c

telus = cdma
rogers/fido = gsm

if u get a cdma fone, i will laugh @ u.

before you laugh you should tell the rest of us what cdma and gsm are.

[stephen_c]

different wireless communication standards.

cdma = ass backward north america
gsm = how the rest of the world works.

get gsm.

[MC Hammered]

Number portibility has been approved but not implemented as of yet.

So right now if you switch carriers you lose your phone number.

Telus has the best coverage and reception in BC but their plans suck.

Rogers has more advanced phones and has a better Canada wide coverage.

We have the pick of the crappiest phones on the market compared to the rest of the world because after studying the market here we are CHEAP!

Free phones, cheapest phones, etc. no one wants to pay for a phone in BC anymore and the carriers know this so they stock the crap phones. You should see some the killer phones they have in the US and Asia, but they would never be purchased here.

I bought my Kyocrea 6035 from Sprint and hacked it when it first came out. It took TelAss 2 years to "approve" it for sale here. Same thing with my Treo 600.

[sidekick]

what's the difference though? why is gsm so much better?

[MC Hammered]

Originally Posted by stephen_c

different wireless communication standards.

cdma = ass backward north america
gsm = how the rest of the world works.

get gsm.

So get a GSM phone when he lives in ass backward CDMA North America eh?

Great advice.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by MC Hammered

Number portibility has been approved but not implemented as of yet.

So right now if you switch carriers you lose your phone number.

Telus has the best coverage and reception in BC but their plans suck.

Rogers has more advanced phones and has a better Canada wide coverage.

We have the pick of the crappiest phones on the market compared to the rest of the world because after studying the market here we are CHEAP!

Free phones, cheapest phones, etc. no one wants to pay for a phone in BC anymore and the carriers know this so they stock the crap phones. You should see some the killer phones they have in the US and Asia, but they would never be purchased here.

I bought my Kyocrea 6035 from Sprint and hacked it when it first came out. It took TelAss 2 years to "approve" it for sale here. Same thing with my Treo 600.

i like the telus phone plans better than the rogers plans. i don't think they suck really.

also, i don't really care about the latest and greatest phone. the one i have right now doesn't have a colour screen or a camera or anything fancy at all. i've had the same one for two years. all i really care about is a colour screen and some sort of camera. i don't care if it has anything else really. so i'm not upset that we don't get the crazy advanced phones until a couple of years down the road...what's the big deal anyway?

i don't need my phone to do my laundry, i just want to use it to call people.

[stephen_c]

Originally Posted by Sidekick

~cut~
i don't need my phone to do my laundry, i just want to use it to call people.

in that case, do what uncle hammered said. get cdma or gsm or w/e

[MC Hammered]

For what you describe any phone they sell will make you happy then.

That isn't the case for me as I need my phone to be a 2-in-1 type device. The Kyocera 7135 that TelASS sells is ancient compared to what is available these days.

I've been stuck on TelASS for almost 10 years and I'm dying to get out but I want to keep my number. :(