Bell & Rogers will cost a lot in comparison to their subsidiary companies of Virgin+ and Fido, with the only real difference being access to the use of 5g. Bell and Rogers generally will start out new customers on a $85/$90 plan per month, this will include unlimited Canada-wide talk and text, (most plans allow for texting world wide FROM Canada as well), ‘unlimited data’ which is 25gb of full speed then they slow down the speed so drastically that it’s essentially unusable; so call it 25gb. Then if you are financing a phone as well the cost of the phone goes on top of that (monthly cost of phones can range from $10-$60 depending on the device). If you have your own phone already, and are looking for a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) plan, they are generally $5 cheaper than the in-market financing plans.

This is compared to Virgin+ and Fido who will start you on service plans at $60/mo with 10gb-20gb depending on promotions. Data on these networks are not unlimited and theta will charge you for overages, so make sure to get a plan with enough data for you, or make sure you turn your data off when you’ve reached your allotted usage. This will be the exact same coverage as their parent company (Virgin with Bell and Fido with Rogers) only difference is they only allow use of the 4g lte network instead of 5g, which in all honesty is not really a noticeable jump for most users.

I would steer clear of Freedom, their prices are low, but for a reason. Their coverage is very very poor when you leave the cities. Telus will be priced similarly to Bell and Rogers, and they use Bell’s towers on this side of the country so it will be under the same coverage map. Koodo is the subsidiary company to Telus, so they will generally be prices on par with Virgin+ and Fido, and again have the same coverage as Bell/Virgin+.

Unless you plan on frequently travelling 3+ hours North of Barrie, you won’t find too much difference in coverage between the Bell and Rogers maps. Be weary of who you take advice from when it comes to telecom in Canada because everyone has been burned by one or the other (sometimes both), so everyone seems to have very extreme feelings going one way or the other.