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Fido....
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Fido and Wind are two different providers Zahra.
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Its good, no one is ripping me off no more.
There was no month when I did not pay over120$ bill, and I hardly use my phone.
Now with wind life is good. Never heard "let us complete your long distance call"
Its good.
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We have virgin mobile (myPlans / myPair) and we are pretty satisfied. No contract what so ever and more than enough minutes that we can use.
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Someone I know has it. Totally not happy with it.
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ya same here someone i knw had it and wasnt happy at alll...........but i have rogerz and believe it or no im happy........hahaha
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I switched to wind (after six years with bell). they had good plans during Xmas. its good, but service doesn't work in basement.
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how often do you make phone calls from your basement 
like 80% of the time 
come on Dude 
okay we dont have this wind fire earth companies outside of GTA
i think the most they go outside of GTA is Hamilton - we in the Tri city area still have to put our necks under the knife of Bell and Rogers - or Telus (which sucks big time anyway)
I wish these new companies would extend their service to KW
after all we make and supply blackberries to the entire world 
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I switched to wind (after six years with bell). they had good plans during Xmas. its good, but service doesn't work in basement.
Did you get a job yet? :P
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Hadn't experienced Wind at the time of the thread but have about two months experience now.
Got myself and wifey the Holiday Miracle Plan in December. $40 for Canada/US unlimited calling, Unlimited Global text messaging, US/Canada picture messaging, Voicemail, Caller ID, Unlimited Data. The plan was just too good to let go.
Got myself a lightly-loved phone (Nokia 5230 for $60) and got wifey same phone bought off Kijiji for $60.
After 10 years with Fido (since 2001) i am now finally paying a bill i know that wont be a penny more than $40+tax. I am on pay before, which means i have to top up before the bill date. Which means if theres no juice left on my account the system wont allow me to make any calls that cost extra.
My Wind home zone extends from Hamilton to Oshawa and up till Barrie in the north. Not bad for 'local' calling. This is especially better than Public Mobile and Mobilicity because i work in Oakville and weather i dial Mississauga, Brampton, Toronto, Hamilton, Oakville, Oshawa or even Barrie - it is all local calling.
Reception is nothing compared to Rogers but its good enough for my personal requirements. I live in a walk-out basement and the reception is great in most parts of my home. Reception is great at work and throughout my commute to work. It has faltered often in the Meadowvale area and further west to Milton. In Brampton it is mostly good but theres been times it hasnt worked. I remember when Fido was new (and not owned by Rogers) their reception sucked too but they gradually improved. Wind is working hard too to constantly improve their service.
What i'm loving:
- I'm loving having the luxuries of contract without a contract.
- I'm loving not having to count minutes anymore.
- I'm loving being able to afford a second phone which is basically paying for two phones with what i paid Fido for one measly pathetic phone with 100 daytime minutes per month.
- I'm loving being able to browse the internet anywhere i go without bothering to connect to someone's WiFi or without counting kilobytes or megabytes.
- I'm loving being able to tether my phone to my laptop/desktop and use it as an internet device anytime my Rogers internet at home stops working.
- I'm loving being able to sms people without counting how many i send.
- I'm loving being able to browse Facebook, Youtube, Hotmail, Gmail and any other websites blocked at work, at work.
- I'm loving how Wind has gathered over a quarter of a million subscribers in a year.
- I'm loving how Wind has covered Rogers/Bell/Telus's nickers with petrol and put them on fire.
Some cons:
- Since Wind's reception is still not perfect in many areas people have complained their phones automatically switch from Wind Home to Wind Away without them knowing and hence incurring them further charges. This can be avoided by a 10 second fix on your phone to only stick to Wind's network exclusively.
- Customer service takes forever - when you call dial 6 to be connected in Urdu and you will be on the phone with someone in 5 seconds.
- Your regular GSM phones dont work with Wind which means you have to buy a new phone. Reason being all the GSM networks have been hogged by Rogers/Bell/Telus and the new guys Wind/Mobilicity/Public Mobile are on a newer technology network (called AWS - which was recently auctioned off by CRTC) which is supported by not too many phones yet. This is also the reason why their reception is sucks is that they have to put up new towers all over again. You can find plenty of cheap Wind compatible used phones on Kijiji / Craigslist.
My heart skipped a beat when i read about Wind getting 45 days to comply or pack up. They are appealing and i am confident they will win this battle.
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We are on the same plan and I'm loving not paying Rogers hundreds of dollars each month for our phones.
Heck.....even Noor has a cell phone now for $7.50/month......she's only allowed to use it on the weekends and she's only allowed to call/text other Wind customers but she's absolutely thrilled.
Cheegum I'm about to program your number into her phone.....be ready for messages from her!!!! LOL.
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Aww i’d love to get text messages from Noor! 
Auntie fiz however has moved over to the dark side and got herself a Rogers phone 
cuz she couldn’t stand Wind’s reception 
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FYI the Holiday Miracle plan is back again. $40 unlimited everything.
wind.ca
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I heard Wind's pretty bad. I have Fido and most of the time I fail to get a decent reception at my university. So I'd imagine Wind would be at par or worse. Also they don't have any decent phones :(
But their plans are pretty cheap so for the price its not that bad.
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no wind reception especially in walmart and many stores. it is growing and getting better.
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i switched from rogers to wind about a month ago it's not bad but does not compare to rogers i get no service at some locations, my text's need to be re-sent sometimes but then again i only pay $32/month with unlimited talk and text where rogers had double the price but alot of other people i know are very happy with wind my parents being a few of them and thats because they directly went to wind and never had rogers or any other company service prior
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I do not like wind. I signed up with them 6 months ago and then switched it back to bell. Reception is awful.
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Cheegu
I got my son this unlimited Wind package recently
Its $29 + tax, for one year, for unlimited talk / text / data, within the wind zone offcourse. After 12 months it will switch to the regular plan which i think is $40 or something.
Wind has recently expanded its network into KW and not the whole city is covered, so its a bit tricky because you might get hit with a long distance charge if you called someone on the other side of the orange line 
- but they are gradually expanding their coverage area and soon the whole of the KW region will be covered.
But my son is okay with that, he mostly uses it for texting or youtube etc.. so its a great deal - and yes we can call from one wind zone to other at no extra charge, so effectively it means everywhere in the GTA / Hamilton / wherever they have wind coverage.
In the past i have been a really pissed off Rogers / Bell customer, so this WIND deal is just too good.
I pray that Rogers, Bell and TELUS go bankrupt and get wiped off the face of earth
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Ameeeeeen sum-ameeen!!!
JB check your son’s phone’s network settings. You will have a screen where you can select either Dual Mode, GSM Mode, UMTS mode. Keep that to UMTS mode, anything other than GSM or Dual. What this does is ensures the phone will not jump on to any other network but Wind. If your son goes in an area where there is no ‘Wind Home’ reception, it will simply stop working, it will not switch to ‘Wind Away’. This is one absolute way of staying away from unwanted charges.
And yes reception will get better and better. I have been with Wind for a year and have seen huge changes already. I have to make a trip to Welland, Ontario (15 min drive from St Catherines) about 4 times a year. Until a few months ago my reception would end right after Hamilton. But now that Wind has expanded into the Niagara region i get uninterrupted reception on my 1 hour drive from Mississauga to Oakville to Burlington to Hamilton to Stoney Creek to Grimsby to St Catherines to Welland. 