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Originally Posted by Wormius
I am just on a regular pay-as-you-go, voice-only phone with Telus and thinking about upgrading, since the number of minutes I go through is starting to border on being better off in a contract with a decent phone.
I am not a data hog, and would really only browse substantially at home over wi-fi or some wi-fi hot spot. Basic other use would be email / messenger / get directions of some type stuff. The standard 500mb/month might be overkill then, unless there is lots of overhead involved in any of those activities outside of email attachments.
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If you're not a data hog you can probably get them to do a retentions contract with data for about $40 (200 daytime minutes, evenings and weekends starting 6, 500MB data and unlimited text). It might be worth it to do that instead. As for data, if you do anything like send pictures, view youtube or download apps outside of wifi, that chews things up really fast.
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Originally Posted by Rathji
IMHO, if you want the newest phone, trying to avoid a contract by buying your phone outright can't really save you enough money for the initial cash outlay to be worth the effort required to make sure your bill is as low as it can be. If you are happy with a previous gen phone (iPhone 3GS) then it can be very effective,.
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There's another option with Wind, you can do something like the wind tab, its not really a contract but they give you the phone for a low price and it's like a bar tab that's paid off with your monthly bills. If you cancel early, you pay the difference you owe on the phone. Difference is, you pay no cancellation fees for breaking the contract early, just the phone difference. So its like a no interest car payment for your phone. Might be something to consider instead of buying the phone outright.