@MapleBay wrote:
Flex Heavy Plans gone. My $145 bill just jumped to $260
It looks like it is time to switch to Telus. I really liked the Flex Heavy Plan as it allowed me to have good internet in my rural community and work from home. It looks like ROGERS is no longer offering the Flex heavy plan and replacing it with Fixed Heavy. The new fixed rate for the Heavy plan is $60 5GB, then $20 per additional 10GB bucket . Using 100GB on the old flex heavy plan cost $145, but now costs $260 (a whopping 79% price increase!). If I am forced to change plans to Fixed Heavy I will have to find another option. Where I live there is no option for cable or phone service, wireless is the only option.
Just checking back in, it looks like the mod removed the link I provided that linked to their competition which offers a 250GB plan for half the cost of the Rogers 100GB plan. They also moved this post to hide in under an ancient thread (with a misleading title) hoping no one will see. Really Rogers? Pathetic.
Shameful ROGERS.
Well,although your link was removed, as per the forum use terms, we can't provide direct reference to prices, and plans as alternatives, but what you have been able to do is flag all in this situation that there are competitive solutions.
All people can call providers of these types of services and providers outside of the Rogers, at various levels - do your searching and information gathering and make the decision that meets your need the best.
I read an article (sorry, I didn't bookmark it), that commented that the Canadian companies are making their greatest profits out of increased data overages. Mobile syrup recently published a report on the cost of overages for all companies, and the CRTC published a report that was analyzed that spoke to increasing cost of data charges and that the majority or revenue comes from data, far exceeding roaming and long distance, and that 10% of revenue is coming from overages - so the concern that people are expressing that the price of data and overages is increasing at 10 - 20% is supported in the report from the CRTC in 2017.
So it is basically incumbent on users to question whether there are alternatives - you may not be able to post them here, but there is a limited number of companies to search - just search rural wireless internet and rural internet options, you will find many options (both companies, but also distributers as well in your local area).
And it is also incumbent to take a serious look at how you use your data and how closely you use the tools, or even tools you create yourself like I saw on another thread where the person had created a spreadsheet to guide them to the data on predicted data use, as well as adding in how much data is used by plugging in data from a movie, U-Tube.
All this data is available for search, but I don't expect that one of the most significant money makers for the companies - wireless data and overages is going to be leaning in our favour - it subsidizes, not the extension of networks - I have had dead data connections in my home for over 10 years, and no new towers have arrived in 9. They put the tower in a place where the design of 60% of the homes in our neighbourhood, we have walls between us and the tower, and we are told that we can't get a tower because they already put one in for the increasing growth - it meets the needs of those to the south, north and west of the new tower, but of not those living to east. The location of the Rogers towers, we connect to are actually 2.5 km down the road, line of sight, all other towers are blocked. We get 1 bar in our home. So I don't see improvements in wireless service, but that is all marketing anyway. We hear that same line every time rates climb.
So shop around, share the information around with those you know, check the other forums. And find the best offer for yourself if you can't obtain an offer that works for you from Rogers.
Take a look at the CRTC documents that provide guidance on roaming, data, additional data costs, and also note that some of these decisions that are attempting to give users more management and protection from accidental overage charges and options, are also leading to changes in the plans that are offered to us.
Good discussion, in particular for those in rural areas - there are options, and it would appear that here on the Forum, there will be no opportunity to put out too much information on alternatives, so hit Google and start searching rural and wireless internet options - don't know about satellite, but maybe that works too.
Good luck everyone in finding options that meet your needs the best possible - this area is a cash cow for the companies, so they will work hard to protect those profit margins.
Bruce
