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Long story short. If you get a subsidized phone from Rogers you will still have to pay if you cancel early. If you're using your own phone you and you want to cancel you only pay the $12.50 admin fee.

Not much difference really. Most users will get a subsidized phone if they sign a contract.

I just negotiated with Rogers yesterday and Im pretty happy with what I pulled off:

300 Weekday min
Evening & Weekends @ 6pm
My 10 Canadawide
Unlimited incoming
1 Gb data
Unlimited text/picture messaging
CID/Voicemail

$54.13 + HST

And I got the Galaxy Nexus for $50. This is a 36 month term.

^ not bad of a plan but since rogers been falling off lately with their customer service and prices im thinking of booting off to wind.

Speaking of cancellations, how does ecf work?

I have a really good plan I negotiated about 1.5 years ago and I'm wondering what does Rogers Retentions do with those "killer" plans (I have voice and data=$30 all in. Will they at least match the plan if I want to keep renewing it or am I looking at price jump?

I'm going to say price jump lol $30 for voice + data all in is a crazy plan!

How much data are we talking about?

6 GB

Guess I'll be looking at another provider when my contract is up if it jumps close to double what I'm paying now.

:ahwow:

Basically they want to add another bs $12.50 on top of what your fee is for cancelling contract...?

can anyone school me on what this LTE stuff is?

From what I heard, it's high speed data on your mobile devices that is even faster than what broadband carriers can provide on their home internet network.

LTE (telecommunication) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Essentially, figure LTE speeds are capable of a theoretical 100Mbit/s downstream, 50Mbit/s upstream. Realistically, you're more likely to see ~30-40Mbit/s downstream, 15-20Mbit/s upstream.

3G/HSPA+ networks, most of them in civic areas will give you speeds of ~5-10Mbit/s downstream, .5-1Mbit/s upstream.

I thought 4G was supposed to be the next level in mobile data?

You must be referring to the "4G" that carriers are dubbing their phones, its actually not real 4G. In fact it is just HSPA+, an evolved version of HSPA which is 3G.

LTE is mobile broadband which can be considered 4G.

rogers such fail.

They said i can upgrade 1 year prior to my contract expires(when the iphone 4S came out), I called today to reserve the sgs3 and they said i had to pay an early upgrade fee of 13$ per month for 9 month till my contract fully expires? WTF?

anyone had this issue with CS before? provide some feedback?

Its because before you could upgrade after 2 years into your 3 year contract. Then they changed it to 2.5 years into. Now they changed it just recently, like mid May, to 3 years...

^ They put a note onto my account for 6 month year upgrade ( all he can give me .. which is still retarded)

Anyone here with rogers planning on upgrading to sgs3 when it comes out?

Yup, the 6 month thing they offered you is like the "grace-period." Basically allowing you to do the old 30 month policy instead of the new 36 month policy.

well online reservation says that i have to pay a 40$ reservation fee, does it mean i also have to pay the 35$ HUP AND 199$ ( if its 199$ ) for the phone? AND the 39$ early upgrade fee? .. fucking robbers

Early Upgrade Fee + Administration Fee(or was it called Activation Fee) + Phone Price + taxes

Your case it sounds like: $39 + $35 + $199 + taxes

I am unsure what the Reservation Fee is because I've never preordered/reserved a phone before.


Or call retentions? I was able to waive my Early Upgrade Fee as well as the Activation Fee.

call retention they can waive the early upgrade fee, if the rep cant waive ALL of it, request for manager

just did that for my gf :ilied:

how far were you from the end of your contract? (or your gfs)

So after fifteen mins of waiting and another ten mins talking the retention department asking about cancelling my contract and porting my number to wind. Keep in mind I still have two more years to go in my three year contract, the rep then said I'd have to pay $500 to cancel. :suspicious::heckno:

What were you expecting? Of course they're going to charge you an ECF with 2 years left on your contract.