Back to School Student Cell Phone Plan Comparisons

This is a guest post on cell phone plans from all of the major Canadian providers that would be appropriate for a student.

Alright, time again for the new semester of 2010 to begin. To take a load off of your to do list here are the bargain plans rates for students offered through Rogers, Bell, Telus, and Koodo.

Data Charges With WIND Mobile

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For A List Of Cell Phones Available Through WIND Go Here

Long Distance and Roaming Charges With WIND

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$15 Plan

• Unlimited WIND to WIND Calling When In Any WIND Home Zone
• Unlimited Incoming Calls When In Any WIND Home Zone
• 100 Province Wide Minutes When In Any WIND Home Zone

$35 Plan

Cost Of Texting With WIND Mobile

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When on the $15 plan

50 Canada/U.S. Outgoing Texts

Every text afterwards is 15 cents

$35 Plan

50 Canada/U.S. Outgoing Texts

Every text afterwards is 15 cents

$45 Plan

Unlimited Outgoing Texts to Canada/U.S. When In WIND Home Zone

Why Should I Go With WIND?

1) No Contracts. Can use your phone 1 month, and decide to not use it the next and so on. Also swap to another company and eventually go back to WIND without any hassle.

2)Although plans aren't ridiculously cheaper, they are still competitively lower.

3)Get phones at cost.

4)Simple choice between 3 price options which can be customized with add ons for a fair price.

5)Customer Service is better than the rest. Right now they're trying to make a name for themselves in Canada and keep customers happy. Enough said.

The Nexus One phone has the potential to be a major competitor to the very successful iPhone.

However, we still don't know if it will be officially available in Canada.

But that doesn't matter.

WIND Mobile Cell Phones

Currently, WIND Mobile is only offering 4 phones.

WIND Mobile Cell Phone Plans Canada

Plans

$15 Plan

Roaming will be a funny thing for WIND Mobile.

When you are outside of WIND's coverage area, you'll be on Rogers' network. This will cost 25 cents per minute (which isn't really that bad).

So, if you're in a dead-spot where WIND is supposedly operating, you'll roam onto Rogers and pay 25cents per minute for all incoming and outgoing calls.

WIND will be selling their products through their retail stores, but also through select Blockbuster videostores.

Checkout my article here for WIND's own retail storefront non-kiosk locations.

My understanding is that they'll be actual kiosks, rather than the 7-11 Speakoutwireless stores where the products are sold by the regular clerks that may not be too familiar with the products.

It looks like WIND will be launching on Wednesday according to CBC and Mobilesyrup.

... from the incumbents Telus, Bell and Rogers.

1. Tie-in with Google Voice (or at least cloning many of their services). This would allow one to check voicemail messages by having them emailed to you, and even having them transcribed. Seriously, just look at the Google Voice article to see what kind of innovations any telecom could offer if they just decided to be... innovative.

2. Innovative voicemail options: For example, tie-ins with Google Latitude, where callers (or select callers) can find out your geographic location when you're unable to take your call.

For now, we really have no idea what WIND plans to actually charge. Nothing official has been announced on the WIND Mobile Website. See the comment below for rumoured pricing, or post your own rumours!

However, it is reasonably safe to say that the main cost for operating a cell phone network is in setting everything up rather than the cost of each individual minute or text sent.

Alternate Title: How can WIND benefit me, even if they don't cover my area?

It is still very early to say just how widespread WIND's initial coverage will be, so far, we've mainly been hearing about "Calgary and Toronto", as I stated in my previous article. Secondly, we really don't know how quickly they'll be expanding, but hopefully fast once they work out the initial kinks.

However, WIND's definition of these areas, or at least Toronto anyway, is very conservative.