For B.C./AB people formerly on Fido, as a competitive answer to Shaw mobile, there is now a $45 25GB winback plan.
I'm from Vancouver
(sept 5) port out from fido to competitor (Freedom prepaid)
(sept 7) received email from fido ambassador of a an exclusive offer which can only be discussed on phone...
(sept 10) received a call today from fido winback
mention i have port to shaw mobile $45 - 25gb, came back few minutes with the plan match!
** rep then offer $10 credit for next 24 month! (starting at 2 - 3 billing cycle) $45 - $10 (bill credit) = $35
$40 activation charge will be waived (at 2 - 3 billing cycle)
also available $300 bill credit for new phone (dec 07 2020 updated) (I didn’t need it) which is another cherry on top.
*must decided at the time of activation*
call customer services to port your number back to Fido, once you received the sim card (from courier)
Good luck. YMMV.
==Edited 1==
plan details from email
Your plan: 25GB, Talk & Text - BYOP^^- 25GB Data/
/- Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messages from Canada to Canadian, U.S. and International Mobile Numbers/
/- Unlimited Canada-Wide Minutes/
/- Call Display//- Voicemail//- Call Waiting//- Conference Call/
/- Data Overage Protection. Data is paused once you hit your plan's limit. To unpause, you can add more data.
DATA BYTE is included in the plan (1 hours of unlimited data X 5 times a month)
got the extra 5gb so i'm now at 30gb
Just login to your fido account and a popup offer appears, YMMV
data point, i'm at my second billing cycle on the winback plan, DID NOT get a new phone for $200 credit
YMMV
--== edit 2 ==--
Went ahead to grab a s20 today for black friday
sales rep call to fido back end and switch my BYOD plan to an financed plan... so it is possible just need to find the right person
new plan details is not updated, that why it is still byod
--== edit 3 ==--
friend received the winback offer today (dec 07 2020)
same 35 - 25gb, but with $300 device credit !
Nearby Fido locations:
Last edited by syncmaster on Dec 8th, 2020 12:27 am, edited 10 times in total.
For B.C./AB people formerly on Fido, as a competitive answer to Shaw mobile, there is now a $45 25GB plan.
I'm from Vancouver
(sept 5) port out from fido to competitor (Freedom)
(sept 7) received email from fido ambassador of a an exclusive offer which can only be discussed on phone...
(sept 10) received a call today from fido winback
mention i have port to shaw mobile $45 - 25gb, came back few minutes with the plan match!
** rep then offer $5 credit for 24 month! (starting at 2 - 3 billing cycle)
$40 activation charge will be waived (at 2 - 3 billing cycle)
The other thing is the $200 hardware credit (I didn’t need it) which is another cherry on top.
*must decided the phone during activation
sim card will be mail in
currently waiting for account to be update so no screenshot
Good luck. YMMV.
I was offered a similar deal (only difference being 6GB data instead of OP's 25GB data) by fido rep on call. However, I rejected the offer and will wait for black Friday offers. I still have one and half months left on my current contract.
fyi, I currently have a corporate plan from Bell which is/was $65+tax for 10GB data, USA calling and a Huawei P20pro ($35 for device is included in that $65 every month i.e. $70 device balance outstanding).
Any pro tips on how I should be switching or getting a better deal (by black Friday) than the current plan I have?
SindbadRFD wrote: ↑
I was offered a similar deal (only difference being 6GB data instead of OP's 25GB data) by fido rep on call. However, I rejected the offer and will wait for black Friday offers. I still have one and half months left on my current contract.
fyi, I currently have a corporate plan from Bell which is/was $65+tax for 10GB data, USA calling and a Huawei P20pro ($35 for device is included in that $65 every month i.e. $70 device balance outstanding).
Any pro tips on how I should be switching or getting a better deal (by black Friday) than the current plan I have?
If you are happy with Bell, negotiate with them first. Saves you all the porting. If they don't give you same or similar deal that Shaw is offering, then port out to Freedom in November. Wait for Winback. Once with Freedom you can see what other carriers are offering if porting from Freedom. Especially Black Friday deals.
if you port to freedom and say you went to shaw to get them to match shaw's deal, no problem?
don't they do the porting back from shaw for you, so they'd know you're on freedom not shaw?
i havent changed phone providers in so long. when you switch to freedom do you have to pay to get a sim from them, then when you switch back to fido can you just use your old sim again?
I'm on the Fido $50 for 15GB winback and I called to ask if I could get this. They didn't offer it but they said they'd give me 3GB extra for 3 months. I took and it I'll call again for a permanent extension once it runs out. In ON BTW.
ChillbroSwaggins wrote: ↑
I'm on the Fido $50 for 15GB winback and I called to ask if I could get this. They didn't offer it but they said they'd give me 3GB extra for 3 months. I took and it I'll call again for a permanent extension once it runs out. In ON BTW.
I did this when they offer 3gb or 5gb for 24 months and i didnt receive that offer. so i called and and they gave me 3 gb for 3 months, 3 months passed, i called and got a bad rep, lol she told me what i was looking for is free stuff and we dont offer that here lmao i cried that day haha . Jokes aside, gotta try again later tho
EDIT: Found out from another rep that basically you have to be porting in from Shaw. That is the only way to get it, says the rep. If anyone has any other information proving this wrong, I would love to hear it, as I am utterly frustrated with their customer service.
Very YMMV. I might have gotten a really bad rep, but here is my story. I was a former Fido customer for 13 years, transferred to Telus 6 months ago.
1) Called Rogers winback team after hearing about their $45/25gb plan in the other thread.
2) Got transferred to Fido winback team.
3) After the rep "pulled all strings", I could not get the deal. Settled for $50/15gb.
4) Saw this thread the next day
5) Called back, but could not get the deal.
Sad to say, I will be switching to Shaw and waiting for the winback call.....AGAIN.
Gazorcoop wrote: ↑
EDIT: Found out from another rep that basically you have to be porting in from Shaw. That is the only way to get it, says the rep. If anyone has any other information proving this wrong, I would love to hear it, as I am utterly frustrated with their customer service.
Very YMMV. I might have gotten a really bad rep, but here is my story. I was a former Fido customer for 13 years, transferred to Telus 6 months ago.
1) Called Rogers winback team after hearing about their $45/25gb plan in the other thread.
2) Got transferred to Fido winback team.
3) After the rep "pulled all strings", I could not get the deal. Settled for $50/15gb.
4) Saw this thread the next day
5) Called back, but could not get the deal.
Sad to say, I will be switching to Shaw and waiting for the winback call.....AGAIN.
Shaw is the only one with the deal, so I can understand why Rogers and Fido are only offering it based on that.
I will be switching to Shaw once my winback contract expires in October.
This is the way of Canadian cell phone carriers.
They say dance and we are the monkeys dancing for a treat.
We need more competition like Shaw mobile to create better offers. They say they need to charge so much for offering so much data but all of a sudden then can give us 25gb for $45?!?! They’ve been lying to us the whole time!
Gazorcoop wrote: ↑
EDIT: Found out from another rep that basically you have to be porting in from Shaw. That is the only way to get it, says the rep. If anyone has any other information proving this wrong, I would love to hear it, as I am utterly frustrated with their customer service.
Very YMMV. I might have gotten a really bad rep, but here is my story. I was a former Fido customer for 13 years, transferred to Telus 6 months ago.
1) Called Rogers winback team after hearing about their $45/25gb plan in the other thread.
2) Got transferred to Fido winback team.
3) After the rep "pulled all strings", I could not get the deal. Settled for $50/15gb.
4) Saw this thread the next day
5) Called back, but could not get the deal.
Sad to say, I will be switching to Shaw and waiting for the winback call.....AGAIN.
Must have been the rep you were talking to, I was able to get the deal and I’m with koodo. Told them I’m going to port to Shaw unless they wanted to win me back with the $40 25gb deal.
redblack wrote: ↑
Must have been the rep you were talking to, I was able to get the deal and I’m with koodo. Told them I’m going to port to Shaw unless they wanted to win me back with the $40 25gb deal.
Keep trying until you get the right rep.
You were able to get Koodo to match this deal, or you called Fido and said you were going to port to Shaw?
Koodo customer here looking for the same...
Koodo: $40 8GB + $0 5GB + $0 3GB promo add ons = $40 for 16GB.
Will Fido increase the price of this plan down the line? It would be a bummer to port out and pay activation fees to only have this plan for little while.
I got 5 lines with fido.. porting to shaw is 100 dollars just to get the connection... is.there a way around or should I just port 1 line and they will apply the promotion to all the lines ??
lmao i cried that day haha . Jokes aside, gotta try again later tho