However with the numbers being portable between carriers, customers have much more leverage and the loyalty departments have become much more powerful and flexible. There were days when they wouldn’t budge, calling the customers’ bluffs!

Telus mobility DOES offer free evenings/weekends on the Talk $50 plan, so I switched to that one. The website did not specify it properly – but if you are currently on a 1, 2, or 3 year contract, they do let you have the evenings/weekends unlimited even if its not a new activation.

So I switched to that one, and now I pay $10/mth more for 150 more daytime minutes, which is solid for me!

I always thought I can’t get the evenings/weekends with the Talk 50 – I would have switched over a year ago so I don’t have to worry about saving airtime all the time haha!

I was a call centre agent for Bell Mobility analyzing plans for people and observing trends for 14 months – I know VERY well of the pricing structure between different cell phone companies, and how the promotions are offered etc.

With Telus, I have the Supertalk $40, which gives me 350 minutes.

The next step up is the Talk $50, which gives you 500 minutes, BUT unless it’s a new activation, I have to pay extra for free evenings and weekends. I think that’s about $15 or $20 extra. So essentially to go from 350 daytime to 500 daytime, I need to pay an extra $25~$30 more, which basically puts my bill to the same as what you see above.. if I go over that much again I’d switch over anyhow, but still this is much more difficult than it is with Bell.

Thats why it’s so difficult to set the right plan with Telus unless you’re a new subscriber. With Bell, I can add 100 minutes per $10 bundles as much or as little as I like.

I have 350 minutes daytime, and 409 put me at 59 minutes over, that’s all.

If I went over by 1300 minutes… that’s $325, cause it’s usually 25 cents a minute.