Opinions on Freedom Mobile (Formerly Wind Mobile)
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- Mar 13th, 2019 1:04 pm
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- CanadianSpruce
- Deal Addict
- Feb 17, 2017
- 1318 posts
- 1145 upvotes
- IanBrantford
- Sr. Member
- Dec 4, 2017
- 648 posts
- 346 upvotes
Virtually all phones in the last few years that work on Freedom also support the Rogers bands. It's just that Rogers coverage in many rural zones is just not as good as Bell/Telus. Rogers clients get the same spotty experience as Freedom users roaming on Rogers in the same areas, in my experience.
The one person I know who does like Freedom does get good rural coverage in the rural area that he likes the most (on Rogers), so he's sticking with it.
The friend who gave up on Freedom last year did so because of reliability issues while on the Freedom network itself, not while roaming on Rogers.
- StatsGuy
- Deal Guru
- Dec 20, 2018
- 10132 posts
- 10243 upvotes
They don't especially not in rural areas where Rogers uses very different 3g bandsIanBrantford wrote: ↑ Virtually all phones in the last few years that work on Freedom also support the Rogers bands. It's just that Rogers coverage in many rural zones is just not as good as Bell/Telus. Rogers clients get the same spotty experience as Freedom users roaming on Rogers in the same areas, in my experience.
- BlueSolstice
- Deal Addict
- Dec 4, 2016
- 2011 posts
- 1030 upvotes
For what it's worth, I've been on Freedom/wind for a few years. My wife is also on Freedom, after she got sick of Fido promotion calls. We live in sub-urban Ottawa, and my G5 recently got LTE service, after a much delayed software update. Not a good choice if you go to rural areas often, or goes downtown often. But for sub-urban areas, I'm doing fine. Freedom has reasonably price regular plans, which means I switch between plans as my usage changes, rather than negotiate a plan with a rep and get somewhat stuck with it.
- Kkhan15
- Deal Addict
- Jan 1, 2013
- 2126 posts
- 1449 upvotes
- Durham
I'm in Ajax and have had no issues with Freedom since joining last fall when my wife and I got the Friends and Family discount. $30/mth 10gb plan is great. Been to some rural areas where I still got service. Went on a cruise, used wifi-calling. I think since I got it, probably 2-3 dropped calls. No biggie. Well worth the cost. This plan would be $100/mth elsewhere.