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November 3rd, 2009New Canadian cell phone plan comparison tool launches

Posted by Editor in Carriers, competition, deals

After Industry Canada spent over a million dollars trying and failing to launch a cell phone comparison tool for Canada, someone has gone and done it for free. That someone is J Ben Benjamin in partnership with web shop einfiniteweb.com. While not so much yet the world’s prettiest website, it’s gets the job done. You can compare voice minutes by time of day and incoming vs outgoing, data and text and a slew of other options (tip: look for data under “advanced search” took us a while to find that).

This is commendable work. Despite some progress the carriers have made recently towards simplifying plans, overall rate structures remain highly obfuscated in Canada. Therefore tools like this one that can bring any additional transparency are of great value.

A few caveats though, there are a few things the calculator does not take into consideration. On the cost side remember that all minutes are not created equal and nor are all “evenings”. On Rogers, for example, a minute can be one second long and an evening minute may start hours later than on a seemingly identical Fido plan.

The other factor not considered here is quality or value for service. A cheap plan isn’t much good if the network coverage doesn’t reach you or if all the handsets available are ancient crap (here’s looking at you flanker brands).

Some fun games you might be able to play with this tool: Check out the price discrimination by province! Find the best plans for the rather short list of specific phones actually worth buying: BBerry, Droids, Iphone, Pre etc. (once they all come out). Sounds like fodder for future articles.

LINK: www.cellphoneratecalculator.com

http://www.kontagent.com/ albert lai

fyi, There's a service called BillShrink in the US that is making a killing on price comparos of cellphone plans in the US. Its a fantastic service, and a great lead gen business as well.
GrammarNazi

“While not so much yet the world’s pretties website, it’s gets the job done”

That sentence makes no sense; could we please proofread before posting?
http://wirelessnorth.ca WirelessNorth

Forgot a “t”.

Notwithstanding our stratospheric editorial salaries this sometimes happens. a lot.

actually that begs a new business model: articles – always free! charge for fixing typos…
adams777

I enjoy getting raped by canada's telecom companies every month on my phonebill, how about you?
branden

About 7 years ago I launched Canada's first rate plan comparison at CellPhones.ca. It leaves a lot to be desired in its current state but the good news is that we've been working hard over the past several months with some good engineers to push out a very good calculator. Hope you'll keep an eye out for our relaunch soon.
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alex000

Recently I got Straight Talk. It's only $45 for their unlimited plan that includes calls, texts, and internet, anything you could use. The coverage is amazing because it is carried on the Verizon network.
mauriceh

Verizon? In Canada??
mauriceh

I confess I am puzzled:

How does one, as you put it: “Find the best plans for the rather short list of specific phones” ?
I can not see any place to select a phone.
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Thanks for the great information.
I am checking out saving money with a no contract cell phone and landline plan to save a lot of money, I found a great company thats definitely worth checking out.
Here's the link – Greenwin
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Thanks for the great information.
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http://reddeermovers.com Mike J

Haha, in my experience it's kind of like the best of the worst when it comes to Canadian cell phone service. But that was very nice of Ben Ben to do something Industry Canada somehow failed to.
oshan

A million dollars….what a bunch of maroon….I'm still on the ground laughing…you mean to tell me, they spent that amount of money and couldn't do one. They should give Mr. Benjamin a “fee” and a job.
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I agree, but what can you do to change anyting?
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Oh, they spent tons of dollars and nothing produces. It would be better if they give some of it instead to Mr. Benjamin. This is also a good news that its free service and save lots of money. Thanks for sharing.

November 3rd, 2009New Canadian cell phone plan comparison tool launches

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