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Well, it seems that Fido read my post (or so I like to think). Starting today, they have a new deal which is pretty cheap. For almost half the price of what I am paying now for my current package, I could get a better value. The only caveat? It has to be with a 3 year contract. Normally I would pass, but since the pretty iPhone was also on a three year contract, maybe I could combine both into one!
I called Fido and spoke to a really nice girl who took the time to calculate everything with me. I was able to combine both the phone and the package, and she also found other savings for me as well. Now, I started wondering if I should add that 30$ to my package and get the data plan. It is a special right now and it will change from 30$ to 100$ starting in September. With my current savings, maybe 30$ would not be so bad? With everything included, it would have cost me about 20$ more than what I was paying right now. Without any data plan I was about 15$ lower than what I was paying right now. I decided that saving money would be better, so I did not take any data plan and I asked her to block all data transfers from her end. That means, that there will be no way for me to go surfing without access to wifi. Does that bother me? Not at all. I don’t use my phone for surfing, except maybe when I am waiting in a Wifi environment. Blocking the data flow from their side is to prevent me from accidently downloading data packets and costing me an arm and a leg. Data here in Canada still costs a hell of a lot, so I wanted to avoid any unexpected surprises. To give you an example, my juggling video would cost me about 6$ to view it. Now imagine, you are bored and watch an hour’s worth of movies… the price will escalate quite quickly!
So in the lapse of two days, I managed to change my mind and go grab the iPhone. Ironically, I’ll actually be saving money now, and I won’t have a phone that constantly dies on me. Sure the phone will be “crippled” since it is primarily an internet phone, but I’m happy to be getting it anyways. I should be getting the new phone within the next two weeks, so I’ll post my impressions when the time comes. Amazingly, this will be my first Apple product.
