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Is It True? Are 3 year Cell Phone contracts disappearing?

Posted on May 25th, 2009Ish
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Are Bell, Rogers and Telus set to cut contracts?

Wow!  Are we at the precipice of a shakeup in the Canadian wireless market? Dare I say goodbye to contracts and hello to better pricing? It seems too good to be true. For as long as I can remember, we have had to endure the terms and conditions of Canada’s wireless providers. However, by this time next year, contracts and other items considered “a grab” should be disappearing. 

With several new entrants coming into the marketplace, this is bound to happen. The skeptics out there will argue if Canada can support a wireless system that has more brands. Will the new entrants last? This writer believes that more competition means more choices for Canadians and, ultimately, better solutions and better pricing. New entrants such as Globalive, D.A.V.E, Shaw Communications, Videotron, and Public Mobile should see to it.

And why shouldn’t things change? We are at the beginning of a paradigm shift in the Canadian wireless marketplace. Consumers are speaking out more and frustrations are mounting. Something must give. As Canadians, we deserve more choices, more options and more say. The wireless providers can still enjoy a healthy profit while fulfilling a necessary demand that Canadians have. Better pricing, better solutions and better options.

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  • Inuapialuk

    We in Canada have actually some some good choices for more than a year now.

    I used VirginMobile for about 6 months with no contract. Yes, I had to buy the phone up front, but I wasn’t tied to any more than a month at a time.

    Then Koodo came along and offered a better deal for what I needed. So I switched and carried my number with me. And this time I didn’t even have to but the phone up front. Koodo’s phone deal is that 10% of your monthly phone bill goes to paying off your phone. I don’t pay system access fees or a 9-1-1 fee. I can pick and choose what features I want and change them monthly if I want.

    This is what we should have from the big companies, but sadly their control-freak tendencies and greed far outweigh their sensibility around customer service.