cell phone savings

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Registered: 08-02-1998
cell phone savings
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Tue, 12-29-2009 - 3:27pm
This morning as I was paying my bills online, I decided to call Telus to find out about getting my cellphone bill lowered. So I spent 35 minutes on the phone with Mary and got my bill lowered by about $25 a month. Could have been a bit lower if I didn't want call display. But otherwise it is pretty basic as all I use it for is phone calls, no texting, email, web browsing etc.
As soon as this contract is up I'm going over to pay and talk.




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Registered: 10-01-2008
In reply to: ileea
Tue, 12-29-2009 - 3:31pm

You normally don't think of $25 a month being a lot.

Norma


"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble"- Plautus


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Registered: 07-02-2008
In reply to: ileea
Tue, 12-29-2009 - 11:50pm

LOL I just called my cell phone company yesterday and got a $50 savings per month!

Only catch was it was going to be a $35 charge per phone to switch us from contract-ly to a month to month plan but the guy on the phone was so nice and he made the changes so we'd see the $50 savings this next month and the $70 "charge" so we only will really see a $20 difference the first month.

Then after that we will be saving $50 / month. We had a plan that gave us WAAAAAY to many minutes and since I don't work anymore I am not on my cell much at all.

I am so thrilleD!

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Registered: 08-02-1998
In reply to: ileea
Wed, 12-30-2009 - 3:13pm
Great glad to hear you will be saving that much.
It does really pay to call them up and just ask what they can do.
I think I will call up my landline phone and cable companies and see what they can offer me.




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Registered: 08-04-2008
In reply to: ileea
Wed, 12-30-2009 - 6:43pm

Good job on calling to save and like Norma said, $300 a year is a good amount to save.
I would like to drop my personal cell phone this year, as I have a company phone I can use, and hate carrying two phones, keeping them charged and answered, but DH wants me to keep the personal phone for our business. Gosh, I can't even remember the phone number and it would save $12 a month when you include taxes.

-Marie




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Registered: 07-26-1999
In reply to: ileea
Thu, 12-31-2009 - 10:13am

Did you know that on "new" plans Telus is no longer charging the system access fee? My first phone (with Telus) was pay and talk, I got the $99.99 phone with the $50 activation credit, so paid $49.99 for the phone. The same phone on the longest contract still cost more than that at the time.

Then I "migrated" to month to month **without** a contract. I have had the same plan with them for two years and have never had them change it or increase the cost.

I just discovered that they are no longer charging the system access fee and have yet to call them to ask why it is still being charged on my account.

I am curious if they would give me the same $50/month deal as another company has that is way, way more in every service for not much more than I pay them just to keep me as a customer...