how much is the Bell landline per month?

[pilmania]

I just need their basic service (no call waiting, forwarding and stuff). what do they charge per month?

[B40]

www.bell.ca

[pilmania]

thank you but i already checked and they don't have any pricing info on their land line. thank you very much for your input.

www.bell.ca

[Audiogenic]

Installation is $55 (unless it a new house $75) and the monthly service is about $25 per month without add ons.

[Montecore]

basic phone is 26+ taxes .

[pilmania]

thank you Audiogenic and Montecore!

[Ojam]

thank you but i already checked and they don't have any pricing info on their land line. thank you very much for your input.

http://www.bell.ca/ecare/PrsCSrvMov_ChangeServ.page?contentpage=new_phone

[Nyte]

If I remember correctly, it varies depending on where you live. Could be $25 - $35 or so, very roughly.

If you have access to a phone, call 310-BELL.

[weizel]

Sprint is $29.95 for a basic line + 1 feature. They are competitive and probably have a promotion you could take advantage of.

www.sprint.ca (http://www.sprint.ca)

I've had no problems with Sprint. They were just bought by Rogers so you may be able to bundle services in the future too.

[Menace]

I just switched (see my earlier post here) to Sprint last night. You will get $10 off for the first 3 months.

Here is the the email I just received.

Dear XXXX,

Thank you for using Sprint Canada's online order form and for your
interest in our services!

We're so excited that you've chosen Sprint Canada!

Just for signing up for Home Phone Service, we're going to give you:

**$10 off for 3 months!
**An additional $10 on your first invoice, as a bonus for signing up
online!
**A rebate coupon for 50% off a V-tech phone! (an approximate $45.00
value)

IMPORTANT NOTE:
1. You must remain a customer for the full 3 months in order to get the
full benefit of the promotion
2. If more than one line is included on one account, only one $10 credit
will be applied. Multiple lines on one account will not receive multiple
$10 credits.
3. Your first invoice will be prorated. The $10 credits will be applied
to your first 4 invoices with Sprint Canada.

Your tentative activation date is: May 24, 2005.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

* On your activation date, there will be a 20-30 minute service
interruption between 9am to 5pm.
* If you currently have an alarm system linked to your phone line, it
will be deactivated. Please inform your alarm company about the
migration of your line to Sprint Canada so they can make the necessary
adjustments.
* If you subscribe to voicemail through your current service provider
(Bell or Telus), you should retrieve any needed messages prior to your
activation, as they will be unavailable afterwards.
* Your invoice will reflect a small charge for 911 service and for
Hearing-Impaired Assistance. As a Home Phone Service provider, Sprint
Canada is regulated to administer this charge on behalf of your
municipality and province.
* A System Access Fee of $4.25 is charged by Sprint Canada to all
customers to assist in the development of our national network.
* 900/976 numbers cannot be accessed through our system due to
regulatory issues.
* If you terminate your long distance service with Sprint Canada, your
home phone service plan will increase by $7.05 per month. *In order to
activate your voice mail from home, dial *98 from your home line. The
temporary system password is your 10-digit telephone number. Once you
get to this stage, you will select your own password and set up your
greetings.
*To confirm your activation of your Home Phone Service, please dial 0
from your home telephone. You should be greeted by a Sprint Canada
operator. You can hang up once you've confirmed this.

The long distance plan you have chosen is the Smart Plan.

For details regarding this long distance plan, visit
www.sprint.ca/longdistance. To confirm the activation of your long
distance service, please dial 1-700-555-4141. You should be greeted by
a Sprint Canada message.

Did you know that Sprint Canada also offers Wireless Service? You can
bundle both Home Phone Service and Wireless Service for as low as $50.95
per month! Check out our website at www.sprint.ca/wireless for more
information!

If you are interested in ordering a Sprint Canada FONCARD, please
contact our Customer Service Department at 1-800-980-5464 after your
activation date.

I would like to be the first to welcome you to Sprint Canada. To help
you understand your Sprint Canada service as quickly as possible, please
visit our web site: www.sprint.ca/welcome. This link will help you get
better acquainted with your Sprint Canada Services and Frequently Asked
Questions.

Should you have any other comments or questions, please feel free to
write us back! You can also send your inquiries to
webmail@sprint-canada.com.


Sprint is $29.95 for a basic line + 1 feature. They are competitive and probably have a promotion you could take advantage of.

www.sprint.ca (http://www.sprint.ca)

I've had no problems with Sprint. They were just bought by Rogers so you may be able to bundle services in the future too.

[AudiDude]

Since Rogers just bought Sprint, if you get services from them (Sprint) expect a phonecall from Rogers telling you that you will either have to go to Rogers new residential phone service or go back to Bell. They are dissolving Sprint and using their infrastructure and do not want to pay Bell any fees to rent a line for you to use.

[duckdown]

die rogers, die

[Wiseman]

$25.46 after taxes for me..

[Audiogenic]

die rogers, die

Die? They are buying everything up and will continue to do so. Somday it will impossible to get away from them ;)

[Madcatmk2]

Die? They are buying everything up and will continue to do so. Somday it will impossible to get away from them ;)

Im not so sure about that. Unless they start installing direct fiber optic access with good bandwith limit to consumers they'll have a tough job fighting Dslams.

[aquariaguy]

I'm in Waterloo and got the most basic line. I was paying $24 including TAX.

[AudiDude]

Im not so sure about that. Unless they start installing direct fiber optic access with good bandwith limit to consumers they'll have a tough job fighting Dslams.

Let me help you be sure about that. RDSLAMs can only be installed by main Outside Plant Interfaces and usually need a fibre feed. Rogers' network + Shaw's network + Sprint's network = sh*tloads of fibre. Rogers new stuff will be fibre to the curb. Rogers network,on a whole,will support more services cheaper and faster than Bell and their separate COs with a thousand OPIs attached to them. Bell will have a lot of RDSLAMS to install to provide new services while Rogers has to deploy services at a few major locations and let the new services fly. Rogers network is easier to upgrade as well. Coax is VERY powerful and direct fibre access in not needed. One hundred feet of coax from a FTTC box can deliver so much more that what Rogers is capable of right now,and they will soon have it.RDSLAMs will be a victim of their own cost, plus the copper pairs being loaded or dirty or suffering RFI/EMI interference (cable fights this better). Just so that you know that I didn't pull this from my a$$, I will tell you that I have 5 years experience with Bell's network, plus experience with passive optical networks that carried voice/video/data that consisted of Rogers/Look signal, plus FTTC nodes and DSLAMs. In the CO, lots of data/voice on coax,NOT DSL .Rogers new phone service will hit Bell hard as they offer awesome bundles and if the Bell strike isn't over yet the punch will be even harder.

[spaceman spiff]

* A System Access Fee of $4.25 is charged by Sprint Canada to all
customers to assist in the development of our national network.

* If you terminate your long distance service with Sprint Canada, your
home phone service plan will increase by $7.05 per month.

A system access fee?? I'm looking at my Telus home bill and I don't see a system access fee. Is this just a Sprint thing or is it a hidden charge that I don't see with Telus.

Sucks, you have to subscribe to Sprint's long distance plan to get this deal?

For me (located in Vancouver), Telus is still cheaper ($29.76/month basic+tax), although I would have liked to have switched over.

[Madcatmk2]

Let me help you be sure about that. RDSLAMs can only be installed by main Outside Plant Interfaces and usually need a fibre feed. Rogers' network + Shaw's network + Sprint's network = sh*tloads of fibre. Rogers new stuff will be fibre to the curb. Rogers network,on a whole,will support more services cheaper and faster than Bell and their separate COs with a thousand OPIs attached to them. Bell will have a lot of RDSLAMS to install to provide new services while Rogers has to deploy services at a few major locations and let the new services fly. Rogers network is easier to upgrade as well. Coax is VERY powerful and direct fibre access in not needed. One hundred feet of coax from a FTTC box can deliver so much more that what Rogers is capable of right now,and they will soon have it.RDSLAMs will be a victim of their own cost, plus the copper pairs being loaded or dirty or suffering RFI/EMI interference (cable fights this better). Just so that you know that I didn't pull this from my a$$, I will tell you that I have 5 years experience with Bell's network, plus experience with passive optical networks that carried voice/video/data that consisted of Rogers/Look signal, plus FTTC nodes and DSLAMs. In the CO, lots of data/voice on coax,NOT DSL .Rogers new phone service will hit Bell hard as they offer awesome bundles and if the Bell strike isn't over yet the punch will be even harder.

You should write an article here about what would be the internet in canada.
I remembered that adsl also needed to had to have fiber optic to be installed for other regions(nodes) of the city.
If coax is so cheap to upgrade then why the rogers network now ask for a cap of 60GB per month while dsl offer unlimited? Rogers is in debt now, will they be able to pay it and then upgrade their network soon?(when?, a prediction would be nice)

[conundrumfp]

A system access fee?? I'm looking at my Telus home bill and I don't see a system access fee. Is this just a Sprint thing or is it a hidden charge that I don't see with Telus.

If they do, it's hidden in the regular charge.
Telus and others do charge a Long Distance fee if you carry their respective discount plan. According to the other post, Sprint charges an LD fee if you *don't* want their LD. That's a bit different.

[AudiDude]

You should write an article here about what would be the internet in canada.
I remembered that adsl also needed to had to have fiber optic to be installed for other regions(nodes) of the city.
If coax is so cheap to upgrade then why the rogers network now ask for a cap of 60GB per month while dsl offer unlimited? Rogers is in debt now, will they be able to pay it and then upgrade their network soon?(when?, a prediction would be nice)

Coax has nothing to do with it, the network layout has everything to do with cost.

When I got my Rogers internet service in 1999, I paid $45 per month and downloaded less than a gig per month. It was a fast home service designed to bring you multimedia and information faster than ever. Now the service is being exploited for running businesses and comitting acts of piracy ALL day and ALL night. Nobody is using the service for what is was intended for, but few. The price hasn't gone anywhere, so how much is enough? Rogers pays for bandwidth from a Tier1 provider, do you think they give Rogers extra bandwidth for free? A 60 gig limit is a lot. Anybody that is unhappy with this is somebody that intends on exploiting the service, not using it as it was intended and written in the TOS.

Rogers is in debt, but what does this have to do with them upgrading their network? Ted Rogers uses other people's money to grow and generate an income. Does this mean that anybody with an unpaid credit card can't by a car? Or perhaps people who didn't buy their house paid in full can't get a car loan or any credit until it is paid off. I had enough money to purchase a car and I put 20% down and used the rest to pay for school and open a business. Now I have a constant source of income. I could have just bought the car and not be able to afford the gas or insurance, but I did what Ted did, which is a VERY common business practice.If you were seriously involved in the telecommunications industry, then you'd know that nobody pays for the new equipment up front. As a matter of fact, somebody may purchase inferior equipment because that company offers better financing for their product.Rogers has been upgrading their network ever since they swapped with Shaw, and yes, they were in debt while doing it.

Don't underestimate Ted, he is old, pissed, and planning on giving Bell a few broken teeth before he retires.Bell right now is telling you that everything is OK on their end as their queu is full of 1000s of incomplete jobs from their strike. One day 1500 of us didn't work any overtime (to prove a point) and Bell had 800 jobs standing, which took us a week to complete with our regular work! So sit back and watch the sparks fly, because Rogers is committed and they aren't ging to back off!

[Redy2Rumble]

Coax has nothing to do with it, the network layout has everything to do with cost. When I got my Rogers internet service in 1999, I paid $45 per month and downloaded less than a gig per month. It was a fast home service designed to bring you multimedia and information faster than ever. Now the service is being exploited for running businesses and comitting acts of piracy ALL day and ALL night. Nobody is using the service for what is was intended for, but few. The price hasn't gone anywhere, so how much is enough? Rogers pays for bandwidth from a Tier1 provider, do you think they give Rogers extra bandwidth for free? A 60 gig limit is a lot. Anybody that is unhappy with this is somebody that intends on exploiting the service, not using it as it was intended and written in the TOS.Rogers is in debt, but what does this have to do with them upgrading their network? Ted Rogers uses other people's money to grow and generate an income. Does this mean that anybody with an unpaid credit card can't by a car? Or perhaps people who didn't buy their house paid in full can't get a car loan or any credit until it is paid off. I had enough money to purchase a car and I put 20% down and used the rest to pay for school and open a business. Now I have a constant source of income. I could have just bought the car and not be able to afford the gas or insurance, but I did what Ted did, which is a VERY common business practice.If you were seriously involved in the telecommunications industry, then you'd know that nobody pays for the new equipment up front. As a matter of fact, somebody may purchase inferior equipment because that company offers better financing for their product.Rogers has been upgrading their network ever since they swapped with Shaw, and yes, they were in debt while doing it. Don't underestimate Ted, he is old, pissed, and planning on giving Bell a few broken teeth before he retires.Bell right now is telling you that everything is OK on their end as their queu is full of 1000s of incomplete jobs from their strike. One day 1500 of us didn't work any overtime (to prove a point) and Bell had 800 jobs standing, which took us a week to complete with our regular work! So sit back and watch the sparks fly, because Rogers is committed and they aren't ging to back off!


I like your insight - just put in some spacing to your paragraph - makes it a little easier on the eyes to read.

[AudiDude]

I like your insight - just put in some spacing to your paragraph - makes it a little easier on the eyes to read.

Thanks, and done!

[Ilikethisdeal]

The lowest monthyl fee I ever had is about $21.8 including tax.