Comments on: Buying a Telus EVDO Rev A mobile broadband card–first experiences

By: Char

Char — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:14:21 +0000

Hi everyone
Today is July 13/09. I just got a letter from Telus–saying they are changing the rate plans and my “unlimited” for 100.00 month is changing to 3GB/month for $60.00 (this is what they are suggesting the best plan for me). I looked on their site and they have a plan for 5GB/month for 80.00. Too bad I have to go down twenty bucks to get a 5GB cap and loose my “unlimited”.

I probably wouldn’t be so bitter–but last spring (2008) I had a huge fight with Bell aobut their so-called”unlimited” plan. Needless to say finally I found someone to help me at CBC Radio in Ontario. I did a taped interview they played on air. Finally they refunded me the price of the modem and the 3 months they charged e 100.00/month (that I never used any usage). The name BELL sends shivers down my spine–as well as Xplornet. Bell lost so many customers due to this so called “unlimited” plan and I bet most people (what choice is there in Alberta?) went straight over to Telus.

As someone mentioned earlier–when you live in the country and are fed up with “dial-up” what choices do you have?

I knew the Telus “unlimited” wouldn’t last forever and I guess I will just enjoy my “high speed” while I can (until they take it away too).

You would think in this day and age Telus would have got their act together and made it possible for people in rural areas to have access to high speed. They have been promising me for about 8 years that “they are working on it”–ya right!

I have a large stack of papers to go with my fights–one with xplornet and one with Bell.
Both of these companies make my hair curl.

Take care
Char

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:42:22 +0000

I bought one of these a month ago. I live in Alberta Canada and because high speed internet is not available on farm land I went with one of these babe’s..NOT ONE SINGLE REGET! fast download, some what fast uploads. only thing i don’t like is where i just got mine the highest plan package was connect 65, 1GB free the rest is 10$ an extra GB, and for a person like me who has 2 kids going to school and need the internet for school research and what not’ and myself playing around on it you know very well the 1GB isn’t lasting.

By: Thomas Kogler

Thomas Kogler — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:12:22 +0000

I signed up for the unlimited plan a few months ago for a full 3 year contract which is now grandfathered.

Now I’m not sure if I really need it.
If anyone is interested I could transfer the contract to them.. which would still give you unlimited data + unlimited roaming anywhere in the US for $100/month.

tmkogler@yahoo.ca

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:54:06 +0000

Just FYI, the unlimited plans from Telus are now gone.. Just when I needed one.

By: Dimiter T

Dimiter T — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:45:38 +0000

I recently purchased the Sierra 595. I ordered the USB one but was shipped the PCMCIA one. Sine i am using it for a desktop setup I was mad at first. I went and bought a PCI-PCMCIA adapter for my PC which worked fine (however had quite a lot of issues with the aircard creating conflicts with my soundcard. if i plugged in the aircard i got a BSOD and sound would not work on reboot – fixed by work-around (disable and re-enable sound card in vista).)
Experience: Great speeds. Great latency. even at weak signal. at -100dB im still getting 60kb/s down. at higher signal levels it improves dramatically. I also purchased a YAGI antenna and a dual-band amp which gives me around 40dB gain.
I can totally see this service becoming very popular. for better or worse.

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By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:31:53 +0000

Dan I’d keep a close eye on this deal. Bell had something similar and pulled it recently. Even this Telus deal isn’t long for this world.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:02:58 +0000

Looks like MTS has a $75/month “unlimited” EVDO offering, which is Canada-wide. Anyone have any Manitoba Friends?

Though it is not North America wide…

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