Let's Play Phone (Company) Tag

Rogers

for $45 you get:

400 minutes (unlimited from 9pm)
Unlimited Mobile Browsing
OR
Unlimited sent/recieved text messages
OR
Unlimited local calling to/from Rogers or Fido
OR
Double minutes (to 800)
Includes: group calling, call forwarding, and call waiting, who called and call manager
35 cents per minute if you go over

Now there IS a system access fee, except now Rogers refers to it as a “Government Regulatory Recovery Fee”. Um okay. It ranges from $2.46-$3.46 plus taxes.

Wind Mobile: For one thing, their website is really confusing and over burdended with “ifs” and “whens” that account for your final bill. One look and you will see what I mean: http://shop.windmobile.ca/ProductCatalog/WhyWIND/

As far as I gather, $103 a month gives you:
4000 minutes (because 3999 just isn’t enough anymore)
Unlimited calling to users on same network (seeing that this a new company, this dosn’t mean anything right now)
If you go out of your “zone” its 35 cents per minute (see?)
Unlimited Canada wide long distance
Unlimited Texts (includes international)
Caller ID, Voice Mail, Missed Call alerts (Don’t all phones have this?) and Call forwarding

This will cost you $3743 over 3 years and includes a $35 activation fee. (It costs $35 to type your phone number into the “system” for some reason)

 Comparably, Public Mobile:
$40 per month
Unlimited Unlimitedness, which means
Unlimted:
Local Calling
Canadian and US Text Messaging
Call Waiting
Call Forwarding
3-Way Calling

Now they make you pay $5 more for voicemail and caller id. But this shouldn’t matter since $45 is still less than what most people pay. There dosn’t seem to be a mention of a system access fee.

 Both sites are not clear as to if you need to sign a contract or not and if they have pre paid service.

Perks:

Right now if you sign up for:

Wind Mobile (until April 30, 2010), you get a $150 credit, which is given to you in the fom of credit. Not actual money. They give you a $30 credit off your bill every month, for 5 months. So really, its a teaser deal to make you sign a contract to pay $103 a month after the 5th month.

Public Mobile 

If you sign up now, (they give no actual deadline; they want you to “ask in store”) you get unlimited Canadian long distance for life. Now thats a good deal. (Now if I only had friends who lived long distance…)

Rogers:

Select Free Phones

So the real deal here is Public Mobile being the clear winner. Rogers gives FAR FAR less than Public Mobile for the same price. And if you want the same deal more or less with Wind, you need to fork out more than twice as much.

I encourage you to look into these companies some more as I have only outlined one price point. They claim to be the most affordable cell phone company-but I’m not holding my breath on that one. That’s exactly what Virgin Mobile said.
 

Source 

Wind Mobile

http://www.windmobile.ca/

Public Mobile:

http://www.publicmobile.ca/portal/consumer/home/home.xhtml

Rogers:

Rogers.ca