Phones, Coats, Boots, and Comforters
Dec. 9th, 2010 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightcastleWhile waiting to meet up with Pixie at the shisha place yesterday, I hit zellers and got some winter clothes, which was needed. My purchases were rung up by Cherehezad, which also made me smile.
I hit Telus and asked Mathieu about bringin an old Verizon CDMA phone (completely unlocked from the Verizon system) over to enroll with them.
Mathieu: "We can't do that. The system is completely incompatible, it will only accept our codes."
Me: "You know that's bullshit, right? It's trivial, you just won't do it."
Mathieu: "Yeah. I've heard of two cases which were personal friends of VPs in the company, but that's about it. Want a phone?"
Me: "No. I will try Bell, since they're the only other CDMA provider. Mind you, they're legendarily more jerktastic than you guys, which is why I tried you first."
Mathieu: "Good luck."
I have to admit that looking over their data plans, I may just abandon the smartphone idea completely. I know cell phone packages in Canada suck, but $50 for 200 local minutes and 500MB a month of data (with a $1 per MB overcharge) is just kind of silly.
I hit Telus and asked Mathieu about bringin an old Verizon CDMA phone (completely unlocked from the Verizon system) over to enroll with them.
Mathieu: "We can't do that. The system is completely incompatible, it will only accept our codes."
Me: "You know that's bullshit, right? It's trivial, you just won't do it."
Mathieu: "Yeah. I've heard of two cases which were personal friends of VPs in the company, but that's about it. Want a phone?"
Me: "No. I will try Bell, since they're the only other CDMA provider. Mind you, they're legendarily more jerktastic than you guys, which is why I tried you first."
Mathieu: "Good luck."
I have to admit that looking over their data plans, I may just abandon the smartphone idea completely. I know cell phone packages in Canada suck, but $50 for 200 local minutes and 500MB a month of data (with a $1 per MB overcharge) is just kind of silly.
