I'll let you know how the Manitoba Telephone System (MTS) out here is for cell phones. I got one for my birthday (I pay the monthly bills), with a simple plan (200 min a month any time), and a simple phone (monochrome between different backlights, mono sound, no extra shiny features), and I've used all of 00:06:22 on it. That's it's purpose to me though; if you *need* to contact me, use it and I'll call you back, otherwise leave a message for me at home. If the phone bill is horrendous, or the accoun info and other such stuff is wrong, well, I've got something dreadful (Bell) to compare it to.

HA! I believe it's fairly likely that the only thing I hate more then Bell Canada is dental work. These guys don't know their head from their asses.
Lou and I were getting cell phone bills of 300 dollars and they would each time I call suggest a plan that would work better to suit my needs, however they just juggled me between the same two plans over and over, charging me an eleven dollar fee each time to do so. Finally someone suggested a plan that was actually worth while for us to use and now we only pay 100. Thanks for mentioning it before you assholes!

It's just as considerate as their stupid little " Oh we're going to put a service u didn't ask for on your phone and then you have to call us to get it taken off or else we will charge you!"

i love their "free for 3 months*!" promos.

* you gotta call to get it disabled, and if you call one day late you get billed for a whole month anyways.

I have an addition to your **, Ssa - not so long ago, Bell literally was a monopoly; a government sanctioned one. They aren't technically a monopoly now, no, but years of propping by the feds and being given an unfair advantage at the onset have left them in a position to do basically whatever they want, while we wallow in their stupidity. ;)

Here is the scoop - the real scoop on what has happened at Bell (Bell Mobility, Sympatico, Nexia).
For the last 3.5 years Bell has quietly outsourced their Canadian IT knowledge-base including control of all Bell Mobility, Sympatico and Nexia's Customer Care and Invoicing System to an Israeli company named Amdocs. They rented a building on the WestMall and shipped in and housed hundred of Israelis during this 3.5 period to implement Ensemble. This third-party product cost so far $700 Million and counting. Furthermore, Bell has signed a 12 year deal worth a 'minimum' of $250 Million/yr to run this system. This is to replace their previous mainframe applications which management said cost Bell too much to run. The previous mainframe system was costing Bell 76 Million to run in 2002. So you can only guess the real reason of implementing this piece of crap. Why would any supposedly Canadian icon company outsource to this Israel - who then outsources to India!! - the most unstable part of the world. The only thing Bell IT does now is to ask Amdocs to implement changes and then deal for months on the cost$$ which is always in the millions. Do you know Amdocs charges Bell a minimum of $30K to make a simple price change to a rate plan??? God Dammit - this is where your money is going! Nice to know that your money is partially funding a part of the world which is rife with human-suffering and unstability. I worked for Bell for many years until last year I couldn't take it anymore. Amdocs runs the show now - all decisions, business plans etc must run throught them first. OH CANADA...I am ashamed. Please pass this on.. if you want more info please let me know.
PS. CHECK YOUR INVOICES - OVER AND OVER - Amdocs at last count had over 15,000 trouble tickets (bugs) reported during their testing phase.. about 300 critical bugs are still 'OPEN'. Hmmmm I am very confident about this system.
Thanks for letting me rant...
Why this isn't in the news is beyond me.. oh ya Bell controls the media too.

Omg I dont want to hear that story, thank you very much. And your free to rant at any time about anything, that's what this site is for..so bring it on!

wow. that's pretty fucking distusting on bells part..

we're all doomed.

We'd check our bill for mistakes if we we're friggin getting them. Has anyone yet? My bell phone bills are always full of mistakes. likely more then I realize being that I can't remember every call i've ever made.

Need to know more?
Do you know that System Access Fee (SAF) you see either monthly or yearly on your bill?
Ever wonder what the hell that is and what value you are getting for being forced to pay this?
Well I will tell you.
System Access Fee was introduced when the cell business was ramping up in the early 90s. It was a $48/yr charge or $4/month. This was part of a deal brokered by Bell with the (hold you breath) CRTC. Why? Well the CRTC was threatening to regulate the Canadian cellular industry - so Bell bought them off - but with your money. So the value you are getting is ZIP! This is just another back door tax to the government to fund the CRTC.
But the story doesn't end. All customer service reps will never refer to SAF as a tax - they are instruction to always refer to it as a licensing fee. The original deal with CRTC was that Bell (and the industry) was to guarentee CRTC a fixed amount of money each year - which they worked out to $48/yr. As more subscribers sign-on (at that time there was 10,000 not millions like today) Bell would charge less SAF per subscriber as long as the guarenteed amount to CRTC was paid. WELL WE CAN ALL SEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED.
SAF has gone up to 80something/year and now there are millions of wireless users. The final joke is that Bell collects this money and ?does what with it?? Do they send it immediately to the CRTC? NOOOOO... They hold on to it in their accounts and only remit to the CRTC on a schedule - which used to be twice a year.. Think of that interest...hmmmmmmm forget 6/49.. we got SAF!!
LETS ALL GIVE A CHEER TO BELL!!!!!
BELL ROT IN HELL!
God, I am pissed off again!


That $48 lasted until I think 2002? Th

I got one for May 25th a week or so ago.