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Recommend me a cell phone plan

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Recommend me a cell phone plan

I am open to any provider, be it CDMA or GSM. Has to have:

0. No contract.
1. Decent service in GTA, including inside buildings.
2. 200 minutes anytime or 400 minutes shared by 2 phones.
3. Unlimited minutes with the other phone on the account or at least one other phone if account is not shared.
4. Decent pricing for mild web usage.

Nice to have:

1. Decent pricing for mild tethering usage (phone as a modem).
2. Unrestricted phones (easy to download and install 3rd party applications).
3. Ability to swap batteries/have extended batteries.
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define "decent"

and how much are you planning on paying for the phone itself??

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0. No contract.
- prepaid only

1. Decent service in GTA, including inside buildings.
- all provider should have no problems.

2. 200 minutes anytime or 400 minutes shared by 2 phones.
- family plan starting at $35 on 3 year contract

3. Unlimited minutes with the other phone on the account or at least one other phone if account is not shared.
- see above

4. Decent pricing for mild web usage.
- $7 unlimited mobile browsing on HTC touch through Bell
- $7 unlimited mobile browsing on LG VU and N95 on Rogers

Nice to have:

1. Decent pricing for mild tethering usage (phone as a modem).
- if you're going to do that start $60 and up for data

2. Unrestricted phones (easy to download and install 3rd party applications).
- for example?

3. Ability to swap batteries/have extended batteries.
- dont know about this one... but the swapping battery is easy
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Mendesb wrote: define "decent"

and how much are you planning on paying for the phone itself??

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I am paying right now $3 for unlimited wap usage on two phones, but phone as a modem usage is something like 15 cents a kilobite, and it somehow always adds up so that just the act of connecting uses up about 5kb, in addition to actual useful data. I do not use it much, maybe 3-4 times a month max. No heavy downloading.

I am not looking for a fancy phone, but also not interested in contracts, only month-to-month commitment. Koodo's 'tab' approach seems fine though.
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dog_mumu wrote: I am paying right now $3 for unlimited wap usage on two phones, but phone as a modem usage is something like 15 cents a kilobite, and it somehow always adds up so that just the act of connecting uses up about 5kb, in addition to actual useful data. I do not use it much, maybe 3-4 times a month max. No heavy downloading.

I am not looking for a fancy phone, but also not interested in contracts, only month-to-month commitment. Koodo's 'tab' approach seems fine though.
didnt really answer the question though... meant how much are you looking to pay for the phone. not the service
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Mendesb wrote: didnt really answer the question though... meant how much are you looking to pay for the phone. not the service

As little as possible. I saw Koodo offers a sort of decent Samsung for $75, and their other phones are cheaper than the same models with other providers if bought out fully. So $100 would probably be the max I would consider.

Otherwise it would have to be a really cheap plan to be any saving compared to my current one: I pay just under $90 for two phones, 450 shared minutes, unlim browser, unlim talking between the two phones, call display, 50 text messages (shared) and all fees and taxes included. I wonder if any other provider could beat that.
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CrazyJo82 wrote: 0. No contract.
- prepaid only
The way I read it, Virgin has the option of no contract and monthly billing, ie not prepaid.
They use the Bell network which should give good coverage; you can buy a phone outright like the LG160 for $50.- and basically build a plan to suit your needs AND change the plan each month if you need to.
The my crew25 or 35 plans sound pretty good.

Anyone with Virgin on one of those plans?
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