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The current promo as of March, 2014 is...

Free SIM Card Plus $25 Bonus Top Up With $100 Top Up Purchase

https://www.speakout7eleven.ca/prepaid-phones-promotions/free-sim-or-microsim-card

$20 for 500mb is great, should be standard all the time.

I signed up but didnt get the credit immediately. Contacted customer service 611 and they said wait a couple days for the system to "catch up" and the credit will be applied eventually.. just fyi

dvdphn said

The plan is good for only one month, and yes, it reverts back to $35 plan after that, so make sure to deactivate before it renews. It's a nice trial for people who are unsure of their phone needs.

Too bad. Anyhow, my payment history is that I've used $315.85 of SO$ over 292 days with per minute phone charges and $10 data, which comes out to $1.08/day or $32.92/month, with only a couple of months where I actually went over the 100MB data, so after this promotion ends, I guess I'll go to the $20 talk/$10 data plan a save a few bucks per month with the benifit of no longer worying about texts and thinking much less about voice use. Of course this will probably result in my becoming more used to talking on the phone and thus drive my voice use much higher, until I start to bump into the 100 minutes ceiling.

Considering that 30 SO$ have cost me only $24 since I have always managed to get the $25 bonus with $100 top-ups, does anyone else out there offer at least 100MB of data and 100min of talking for less than $25/month?

JamesA said

You might be better off with Koodo prepaid. It costs $13.50 per month for their unlimited texting plan ($15 - 10% discount for automatic payment), and then you can use their data and voice add-ons. For $25 you get 500 minutes (anytime, Canada-wide), and for $35 you get 1 Gbyte of data. These are non-expiring add-ons rather than monthly or yearly - you use them up at your own rate. Obviously these are much better rates than Speakout offers, and much more flexible. Koodo also doesn't charge a monthly admin fee (i.e., the so-called "911" fee). Speakout can still be cheaper if you spend less than $15/month, but if you're going over that then you would probably be better off with Koodo.

It took me a while to find the "prepaid plans and boosters". It looks promising. I wish SO showed better usage data history - it makes it hard to compare or plan. I really don't text more than a dozen per month, so getting that "unlimited" doesn't really matter. Based on dollar use, I seem to be about $22/month in voice, which is about 88 minutes per month, and my data seems to have been about 80MB/month. The add-ons cost $0.05/min voice and $0.035/MB in data, so for this usage it would cost about $4.40 for voice and $2.80 for data, plust the $13.50/month for the "base" plan for a total of $20.70/month. Compared to $24/month with SO, this is about 15% savings, and has the added benifit that using more voice or data does not jump to a different rate but just usues up the prepaid amounts. I will have to seriously consider it when I use up more of my SO pre-paid credit. Kodo does seem to have voicemail included, but I need to figure out if the incoming calls are billed differently depending on the location I am - does anyone know? If I travel to some far-off part of Canada, can I still recieve calls from people "back home" without changing the billing rates?

JamesA said
I think your math is off a bit. If you are using 88 minutes/month = $22/month for voice on SO, and < 100 Mbytes of data for an extra $10/month, plus the admin fee, your total monthly cost on SO would be $33.25/month + tax. That compares to $20.70 per month on Koodo, or a saving of about 38%. Plus you get Canada-wide calling, unlimited texting, and true pay-as-you-go minutes and Mbytes that don't expire or cost more for extra use. The only downside is that you are committed to pay at least $13.50 per month.

The SO price of $33.25/month (more accurately my historical over the past 11 months has been $32.92/month, so let's say $33 even) has been in SpeakOut dollars, but since I have paid $100 CDN to get $125 SO the $33 SO has only cost me $26.40, and since I have now switched to SO's $30/month plan that would only be an even $24.

It does look like Kodo will be significantly better for me, since with the SO plan, my minimum is $30 SO ($24 CDN), and even if I dropped the voice/text bundle for a month where I was to talk very little, I would still have a minimum of $10 SO ($8 CDN) to get data, which cannot be purchased/used on a per MB rate.

The SO bonus of 25% is easy to forget when making comparisons, but even with that taken into accunt, it does look like Kodo would be better for my situation. I've got a few months to consider things before my current SO balance runs down, but I think I am likely to switch.

- jb