Re: OT: Cellular telephone service

Oh, I'm not arguing that the pricing for sasktel's service can be a
bit more exepnsive. It's not usually a huge variance. Sasktel's data
plans have been re-worked a half dozen times in the past two years,
and still aren't competetive - at all. Most off-peak local plans will
be neck and neck, most moderate 'travel' plans (moderate LD, not a lot
of local - or if it's local it's from a remote city to the same place)
will end up about the same too.

It's the very high use plans that leaves Sasktel in Rogers dust again
- which judging from your monthly bill Scott I'd assume you're in.

My beef is with the whole 'sasktel was not-as-good-as X years ago, so
that must be true now'. It really is a good idea to to a fair and
valid comparison with current numbers rather than using old data -
even if it means Sasktel/Rogers are almost dead equal (or in Rogers
favor in some cases).

Oh - and the people calling you for renewal are sasktel's outbound
sales department, which means they're not as knowledgeable on cellular
as actual Mobility staff. You might want to take the Rogers figures
and call in to the Mobility que and do a direct comparison with one of
those reps. You're much more likely to get an educated and accurate
response - even if it's them telling you that no, there no data plan
cheaper than $25 a month. If you end up terminating with Sasktel to
go to Rogers due to pricing / plan differences, make sure that they're
fully aware of why you're changing. (Marketing needs to be bludgeoned
by customer feedback that there's a problem, otherwise it won't change
- in regards to data plans/contracts).

On 9/2/06, Scott Walde <scott@waldetech.ca> wrote:
> Keith Snape wrote:
>
> > Long story short - don't let someone rabid distaste for Sasktel as a
> > Telco discourage you from investigate Sasktel as a wireless provider.
>
> I have a rabid distaste for Sasktel as well. They have been phoning me
> lately to try to get me to renew my plan. (I have a sasktel phone on
> the lowest plan plus a Rogers phone that I actually use.)
>
> As far as I know, though, OpenOffice.org Calc does not share my rabid
> distaste for Sasktel. I believe it is impartial when it tells me that
> in the past 7 months, Rogers has been slightly cheaper than Sasktel
> would be for me. (Rogers: $641.78 Jan-July, Sasktel's best fit plan
> with 20/20 hindsight: $676.49) My airtime in the months in question has
> ranged from 450 to 1400 minutes. The Roger's plan seems to have a
> better cushion for my varying usage. My monthly bills ranged from $85
> to $108, whereas the best-fit Sasktel plan ranged from $80 to $135. The
> next plan up at Sasktel doesn't help. Then my 7 month total would be
> $788 and the monthly bills would range from $102 to $135. In addition,
> I can't get a knowlegable answer from the people phoning me regarding a
> low-usage data plan addon. Currently with Rogers, I pay an additional
> $5/month to get 2MB of data. As near as I can tell, Sasktel doesn't
> have a comparable option. I would need to sign up for the $25/month 4MB
> data plan in addition to a voice plan. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> > or Telus. Ultimately for casual city-only use, Rogers is likely going
> > to be the better bet - but still be aware of the other options.
>
> And, ultimately, for moderate to heavy city and hwy 11 use with
> occasional data, Rogers is still the better bet.
>
> My summary: Sasktel => coverage, Rogers => pretty much everything else.
>
> BTW, my first cell phone (Nokia P30) cost me $800 (clearance price. was
> $3000 when it was released) and my plan on Cantel was $15/month with 30
> minutes included with 50c minutes after that. (No contract required.)
> My battery provided about 45 minutes of talk time or about 8 hours of
> standby. At the time, Cantel's coverage in the city was noticably
> better than Sasktel's, but, of course, Sasktel had a few highways as well.
>
> ttyl
> srw
>
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Received on Sat Sep 2 10:07:16 2006