Still waiting for real choice in Canada!!!!! 1. Canadians pay 60% more for wireless, what have you done about it.? nothing we still pay 60% more than the rest of the world. if you had done somthing the big 3 would have been slashing prices. 2. no long distance. we should have unlimited longdistance. 3. no home or away zones. those are just a money grab. 4. 50 texts. who sends less than a hundred these days. or you know that so you set it at 50 so we have to upgrade. starting to sound like you 3 older brothers. still waithing for real choice....
Yes, the plans are lacking from the $20 to $30 product space. You can see the Wind marking people targeting to come in slightly under the incumbents plans which are designed to have the average user spend in the $35 to $50 range per month for voice service at a minimum. If Wind had come out of the gate with a $20 to $30 voice plan with 150 to 200 anytime, anywhere (meaning no roaming or long-distance) minutes, unlimited evenings and weekends local minutes when on the Wind network to any local network starting at 6pm (not this unlimited Wind to Wind crap which means nothing at this time), 100 or even unlimited Canada/U.S. text with caller ID and voicemail included in the plan and then any modeled their long-distance in Canada/U.S. and to the rest of the world after Yak rates or somehow picked your mobile long-distance to to automatically route you to Yak (which Fido offers already by the way) then I'd say their plans are radical and shaking up the market. Right now all their doing is using the high rates in one of the most protected and most expensive wireless markets in the world and then saying once you get to over $35 a month or so we'll give you unlimited instead of the limits that the big 3 impose on you. Not a wise strategy if the goal of the government in letting Wind and the others in was to raise mobile penetration in Canada so the masses could enjoy mobile phone service. It's just logic, to raise the mobile penetration so more people can enjoy mobile phone service in Canada, the monthly spend per month will need to come way down. The mobile penetration rates around the world don't get to over 100% because everyone is spending $35 or more a month on the mobile service. Wind needs to focus on bringing to Canadians service in-line with the rest of the world. Not just trying to piggy-back off incumbent plans in a over-priced market.
i agree with you. thats why i was disappointed with the wind launch. i expected wind to come in and really shake the wireless market up. but to come in slightly cheaper than the big 3 was really a waste of time. to not have contracts, all that does is the big 3 made there phones cheaper, with a 3 year contract. if wind would have come in with a good priced phone on a 18/24 month contract no hidden fees not price changeing after you sign no removeing features once you sign, i think they would have stolen alot of the market. which i guess is still apossiblity.. it is still early.
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