Bell Canada locks in HTC Touch with $7 unlimited data plan
By Will Park on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at 2:38 PM PST In Announcements, Bell Mobility, Devices, HTC, Windows Mobile
Well, the cat’s officially out of the bag, tied down, and committed at this point. Bell Canada has just officially announced that they will indeed be bringing the HTC Touch (well, actually it’s the CDMA version - the HTC Vogue) to their Canadian subscriber base later this month. But the big news here is that Bell has committed to offering the HTC Touch with that rumored $7 per month unlimited data plan. Pricing for the Bell HTC Touch is set at $150 with 3-year contract, $200 with 2-years of servitude, $350 for a single year of contract woes, or $400 free and clear of Bell’s contract grips. You’ll find the $7 unlimited data plan under the “Features” section of the purchase process - it’s called “$7 Unlimited Mobile browser.”
We mentioned that if Bell were to actually go through with this and commit to a $7 per month unlimited data plan, they could very well change the data-pricing landscape in Canada. For our Canadian friends’ sakes, we sure hope other carriers will be feeling enough heat to actually start charging sensible data rates. Way to shake up data rates in Canada, Bell!
One year contract and all you get is $50 subsidisation?
I REAPEATE HTC TOUCH UNLIMITED FOR 7 $ IS NOT TRUE (THAT APPLY TO YOU TO OPENWAVE)
SOON I CAN PROVIDE A WAV CONVERSATION WITH BELL I HAVE. IT IS NOT UNLIMITED I REAPEAT IT IS NOT UNLIMITED
DONT GO ON YOUTUBE DONT GO ON HOTMAIL ETC
YOU CAN JUST GO ON LIMITED PAGE MOBILEBROWSER
Don’t listen to that guy mathieu. I got the Touch and the $7 unlimited plan. It is unlimited for data as long as you are using it on the Touch (the guy was using a different device, check other forums) and not using it as a modem for your laptop. It is true for all data.
The name is a little bit confused because it call Unlimited Mobile Browser. But it works for other application as well (POP/IMAP, streaming …. ). Warning though, some application run on Windows Mobile will use the connecting as a modem. This is when you might get into trouble. What you can do is try to use the application a little bit. Wait for a couple of days for it to show up on your Unbilled Usage on bell.ca and see if it is recognized as Mobile Browser. If it is, you can use it unlimited.
That mathieu guy seems to be spamming nearly every (english) blog that mentions “omg Bell gives hawt 7$/month” with his misinformation. To be precise, he’s F*** WAY OFF the road here. I had the unliweb service as soon as last summer, i was always on GmailMob checking my mail, and slashdot and EVERYWHERE, and i had the service for 2 months and it didn’t cost me so much as a penny over the 2*(7*1.1324) cost (7$ with tax added, two months).