I’ve decided that I’m probably paying too much for my phone & Internet, so I’ve made a spreadsheet of some of the different plans to which I’m considering switching. I thought that the information might be helpful to other people in a similar situation to me.
It’s certainly not exhaustive, and is definitely specific to what I want, but if you see any glaring omissions, please let me know! I want to make an informed choice 
Check out the spreadsheet here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AufZNzUX87uQdHlxNDVFRkswRnlNRWpySURuNlFua0E&hl=en
Just so you know here are my basic criteria this spreadsheet is based on:
- I’m looking for rates for London Ontario
- I want a basic phone line, and don’t want any features (call display? call waiting? no thanks!)
- Most of our phone calls are long distance, but within Ontario
- I
wantneed high speed Internet! - Gavin just got a PC mobile phone, so I threw together the numbers for getting me one too, and dropping our land line.
Obviously, feel free to take the spreadsheet and modify it for your specific situation - if you share your new spreadsheet back to me, I can combine them so it is a more thorough source
The current summary? I can save about $25/month by switching from Bell/Sympatico/Provincial Unlimited to Tek Savvy with their as-you-go long distance!! However, my Internet performance may suffer. According to the scans I ran [1] [2] with my up-to 12M down Sympatico I average about 5.6 - 5.8M down, and Tek Savvy only offers up-to 5M down. Hopefully their ‘up-to’ is more accurate than Sympatico.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Oi! Koodo offers almost all of their cell phones at the price of 0 (I think their most expensive one ends up being 25 bucks). So the setup should be considerably less than that….
September 12th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
From the times that I have done the internet speed test, it seems to be that it is.