Lost cell phone.

[Hallandale]

This isn't actually for me, it's for my mom's friend who lost his cell phone. He was with rogers for 8 months (of a 3 year contract). The phone is on my mom's cell account (she gets some 15% off thing through her work). What would be the best bet for where to get a new phone and sim?

I was thinking perhaps going through retentions, signing a new 3 year contract, perhaps a better monthly deal, and getting a new phone that way.

There are also other cheap phone deals around I guess. Thoughts?

[Paolo]

This isn't actually for me, it's for my mom's friend who lost his cell phone. He was with rogers for 8 months (of a 3 year contract). The phone is on my mom's cell account (she gets some 15% off thing through her work). What would be the best bet for where to get a new phone and sim?

I was thinking perhaps going through retentions, signing a new 3 year contract, perhaps a better monthly deal, and getting a new phone that way.

There are also other cheap phone deals around I guess. Thoughts?

just tell your friend to buy a cheap entry level new or second hand phone from the b/s/t for cheap, then buy a sim card there are people on here including myself who have put them up for sale, and just call rogers and switch the sim. no need to sign a new contract if you are already in one, plus, you can change your price plan at any time if u feel your paying too much, no need to do this "durring a contract re-sign" think about it, most people would do what I recommended.

[pacman99]

just tell your friend to buy a cheap entry level new or second hand phone from the b/s/t for cheap, then buy a sim card there are people on here including myself who have put them up for sale, and just call rogers and switch the sim. no need to sign a new contract if you are already in one , plus, you can change your price plan at any time if u feel your paying too much, no need to do this "durring a contract re-sign" think about it, most people would do what I recommended.
unless that individual wants a highly subsidized phone (aka iphone, n95, k850), that would work. For retention price plans though, you do need to resign your contract. Retention price plans are much better than what rogers offers on its website so especially since he's only 8 months into his contract, it may make sense to resign the contract depending on the plan.

For example i came from a family plan ($35 for two people + $20 for 2 extra lines, 100mins per line shared and unlimited calling to lines on that family plan). After going through retentions they gave me 250mins each, unlimited incoming, unlimited rogers 2 rogers, caller ID, voicemail, etc for each line for the same price per line. Since we had overages of over $500 each month, it made sense to resign the contract.
In this case it makes sense to also get a subsidized phone since you're forced to resign the contract anyways.