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Originally Posted by metallicat
My 11 year old has a $26 a month cell phone plan through Freedom. He uses the phone as a medical device for his type one diabetes. But the phone is old and in need of a replacement. Freedom doesn’t have anything close to $26 a month that includes a phone. The best I can find right now is getting in a line with my Telus account, which would be $65 a month including a new phone. That’s a lot more money than I want to spend. Right now he gets 1gb of data per month.
Is there any suggested plans or companies I should look at? He doesn’t need more than 1gb a month and he doesn’t need much in the way of talk minutes.
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Where possible, be a subscriber on a BYOD plan. Carrier's recognize they are more price sensitive, have the higher churn metrics, and the plans are more aggressively priced. Amortizing the hardware, leads to entanglement, and ease of retention.
Basically, I'm suggesting buying the hardware outright -- there are value/refurb plays too - Openbox, GetOrchard, Amazon Certified Refurbished, Carrier (Apple/Samsung) Refurbished, heck FB Marketplace/calgarypuck even.