I want to switch from rogers to fido is there a penalty?

Andy C · #1 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 10:47 PM

I want to switch away from rogers cause their plans simply well...they suck so i want to go to Fido for the per second billing instead..is there a penalty charge or a fee to do this? i only got contract till 2008 but by the time that comes i will pretty much be flat ass broke and yep they customized my needs but still can't match Fido's pricings

Rob · #2 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 07:37 AM

Yes there would be a penalty of $20/mth for the number of months remaining in your commitment because of the hardware subsidy you would have received on your phone (you would need to get a new phone for Fido since the Rogers phone is subsidy locked to Rogers SIM cards). Incidentally, there is a misconception of how much difference there is between per-second and per-minute billing. The average is only about 10% (so 200 weekday mins used on per-second ends up being around 220 weekday mins on per-minute billing).