Fido 'Tablet' plan - 3GB @ $15/month ($25 activation fee)

[Presto]

I got this plan a couple days ago while there was still a free LG GPad IV tablet for signing up for 2 years.

Without the tablet, the plan is month-to-month.

I've been paying around $15/month for prepaid voice-only service, and scrounging for data from open wifi and ShawOpen hotspots. This deal was good enough to move me to post-paid, and get a free/cheap VOIP to cover voice service.

Fido states that this deal is only available to existing post-paid subscribers, but some 3rd-party resellers will give you the deal. I got mine from T-Booth, which is the same company as Wireless Wave. WOW Mobile, the official FIDO store, and Best Buy Mobile would not do it.

https://www.fido.ca/consumer/promotions

[Speed2K]

They've had this for awhile, there's a detailed thread on RFD. What VOIP service are you using?

[Gamed]

I heard fido can block these tablet plans if your not using on a tablet but on the phone. True?

[jlo mein]

I've been on this plan for 2-3 years I think. Was a Fido voice plan customer before that. I signed up at an official Fido store. I've never used this data plan on a tablet, always on a phone.

I use Fongo for VoIP and ported my number to it. It's OK, not great. On calls there is a slight delay that makes long back and forth conversations bothersome. Call connectivity/quality gets quite poor over 3G which isn't great since my Huawei only has one 4G band in Canada (B7).

Fido's B7 4G coverage is good in the city but there's many suburb residential or industrial areas where I drop to 3G. On Seymour Mountain I drop to 2G and basically all data service stops working. With the Fido Data Only plan, you can still make traditional method calls and send texts by SMS, but the rates are really expensive and best reserved for emergencies.

Google Hangouts Dialer is a much better (and free) VoIP calling app. Can only be used for outgoing calls, and your recipient will see you as a private/blocked number.

Overall it's easily workable for me at $15/month even with the issues. I mainly text, email, WhatsApp and do quick 30 second phone calls. For long calls I can use Hangouts Dialer. Arbitrarily comparing it to a $50 voice and data plan, I'm saving $420 a year if I stay under 3GB of data a month.

[corollagtSr5]

I signed both parents on this last promo. One uses iphone other galaxy note. Signed up on voip.ms and bought groundwire app and linked it. They both like it. Its cheap no complaints.

[jinxcrusader]

I've been using this plan for 2 years now.
My phone is a dual sim. I use a cheapo rogers prepaid SIM for my unlimited texting and rare occasional calls. And then this for my data. My OnePlus can default data to SIM2 and calls/texts to SIM1. Works well and saves me so much $