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Cityfone Prepaid Wireless Plans

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Overview

Cityfone is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider. They feature both contract and prepaid plans.

Pros: Rate plans can be purchased on a prepaid basis, which is not common for Canadian prepaid providers.

Cons: The access fee is uncommon and can add up over a year. Paying $6.95 per month is almost 84 dollars per year.



Detailed Provider Information

Plans: Cityfone offers four different tiers of rate plans that mimic traditional contract plans. First is the Anytime plan. These range from $9.99 to $49.00 per month, and give you from 100 to 1,000 local anytime minutes. The evening and weekend plan ranges from $24.99 to $39.99, and include from 150 to 500 local anytime minutes plus unlimited evenings and weekends. Cityfone also offers two long distance package. Customers can get 150 anytime local minutes, 1,000 evening and weekend minutes, plus 50 long distance minutes for $19.99 per month, or get 500 anytime minutes, unlimited evening and weekend minutes, plus 100 long distance minutes for $49.99 per month. There are also two plans which favor heavy text messagers. The Quick Messaging 1000 plan includes 150 weekday minutes, 1,000 evening and weekend minutes, and 1,000 outgoing messages for $24.99 per month. The $34.99 plan includes 250 anytime minutes, unlimited evenings and weekends, and unlimited outgoing messages. Incoming messages are free with the Quick Messaging plans. Finally, Cityfone offers two Smartphone plans. The $44.99 plan includes 200 weekday local minutes, unlimited evening and weekend minutes, and 1GB of data. The $54.99 plan adds another 100 weekday minutes. Long distance calls on all non-long distance plans cost 36 cents per minute. Evenings and weekend start at 9 p.m., but can be moved back to 6 p.m. for 7 dollars per month. There is an access fee of $7.70 per month added to each plan, which includes a 911 fee.


Customer Service: You can contact Cityfone via a toll free number during normal business hours Monday through Friday. They can also be reached by e-mail.


Credit Check: None


Contract: None


Payment Options: Monthly payments can be made with credit card, or through their e-billing program.


Text and Picture Messaging: Each Cityfone plan includes 2,500 free incoming text messages. Customers can add a package of 250 outgoing messages for 5 dollars, 1,000 for 10 dollars, 2,500 for 15 dollars, or unlimited for 20 dollars. A la carte text messages cost 15 cents each to Canada and 25 cents each to the U.S, and MMS costs 50 cents each to send.


Data Plans: Smartphone users can sign up for a smartphone plan, which include 1GB of data. Otherwise, unlimited WAP browsing is 10 dollars per month, 500MB of data is 25 dollars, and 1GB of data is 30 dollars.


Downloadables: Cityfone prepaid offers ringtones, wallpapers, and games for varying fees.


International Calling: International rates are available. Contact customer service for specific rates.


Roaming Charges: Calls made with Cityfone within the U.S. are charged the base roaming rate of 95 cents per minute. Calls made back to Canada while roaming are an additional 75 cents. Calls received from Canada while you are roaming are an additional 25 cents.


Calling Features: Call waiting and conference calling are included at no additional charge. Call forwarding is available for 3 dollars per month. Caller ID is an additional 8 dollars per month. Basic voicemail is 7 dollars per month, and enhanced voicemail is 8 dollars per month. There are also a number of bundles to combine these calling features for a small discount.


Activation Fee: There is no fee to activate your Cityphone account.


Long Distance: There is a long distance plan that covers all of your long distance calls to the U.S. and Canada. With the regular plans, long distance across Canada and to the U.S. is an additional 30 cents per minute, on top of normal airtime.


411 Calls: Cityfone offers long distance for $1.50 per call.


Earliest Minute Expiration: Your Cityfone minutes expire at the end of each billing cycle.


911 Calls: There is a 911 surcharge added to every account monthly.


Phones: Cityfone doesn't have a large selection of phones, but they are of a high quality. Like with most other carriers, no subsidy is offered for prepaid users. This prices phones from 49 to 249 dollars.


Some Available Cell Models:

Motorola KRZR (shown)
Nokia 1208
Nokia 2760
Nokia 3555


Coverage Map: View the Cityfone coverage map.

Average User Rating:
s.w
2008/11/14

i had averry bad experience with cityfone ,they ccharge penelties even your contract is over with the argument that you did not advise them even tho the company that your number was transfered to them took the responsability to call them for the transfer i have to say they will came wthi all the argument just to take your money!!!

Mouthy Chick
2010/06/10

The monthly access fee is now gone. I've been with them for almost 4 years - no real complaints. Latest conversation with their CSR is now saving me $10 per month, but I'm getting more on the plan. Plus getting a great new phone!

Paul
2010/06/19

After years of good service, the new KRZR I just brought home asks me for a Subsidary Code after I entered my password. What is this? They did not tell me about this and it is now after hours.

Harry Coleman
2010/12/19

Subscribed to a Samsung Corby Pro but the manual did not even mention the GPS feature and Samsung has no tutorials. Cancelled but they still charged me $26 for 545 KB used when their technicians tried to walk me through the GPS feature. It seems their 30-Day Money Back Guarantee is a sham

terrible
2011/01/07

customer service is horrible. They might be nice, but screwing you. spent over 4000 with them, and tried to work with them, but they only look at your $$$, not you as a customer, too bad. dont trust them. go to a store instead of dealing with them. agents only care about their call times. If you want service, get it in person with another company, 100% dont use cityfone, unless they open some stores(not going to happen!)

young
2012/02/20

I have a bad experience with cityfone too. I sent few text messages overseas 2 weeks ago and they never arrived. I called the customer service and they said it was not their problem, they suggested me to call the receiver to check with their wireless carrier if the citifone has contract with them overseas. I was charged fully for those messages that never been received. At the very beginning they tried to blame the receivers overseas had problems with their network. But when I told him that I use the cell phone from rogers, bell, even koodoo to send the same messages to the same numbers overseas and all the messages were received with no problem, the agent started to argue that it was not their problem. I am wondering if this is a cheating since they promise the world call. I am unhappy with citifone. If anyone want to start with them, I suggest you consider carefully. Choose them unless you have no other choice, and prepare to face all kinds of awful experince in the future.

richard
2012/05/23

poor experience with thier phones, i don t know who at fault,i used 3 different phones and had trouble with them all nokia c414 2x7020 still have trouble mostly the phone shuts off all the time sending messages the ph shuts off , talking,all ph were replace under warranty, i looking for a better ph as i am stuck in a 3 year plan

DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY! AND DONT BELIEVE PREPAID REVIEWS EITHER!
2012/05/30

This is a small transcript of how straighttalk treats a customer that was complaining about the poor service and unlimited internet lies from straighttalk...BTW, these are paid employees talking to a customer...(notice how they 'like' their own negative comments to boost their ratings!)

http://www.facebook.com/StraightTalkWireless/posts/10150864936562569?notif_t=feed_comment

Jennifer Cordishly: Straight Talk
StraightTalk is garbage. Dont waste your time or money! Constant dropped calls, clicks on the line like someone is listening in, constant no network coverage messages and constant turning off your internet access with lying unlimited plan and no one in customer care speaks English. Its all junk here. Try Boost Mobile where at least they are honest, unlimited internet means that and they have customer support that can you can understand. Im sure this will be gone soon enough, hopefully I warned some people. Their service has gone to hell in the last 4-6 months. Its not worth it anymore, try any other service but this one. Dont trust my word, google reviews for this sham company and see for yourself!!!
May 24 at 11:29pm ·

Richard Avila Blancas: Jen this is a pre-paid company!!! Key word!!!! Pre-Paid meaning you gotta know how to use your data plan....this is not like verizon where you can use up all your data when ever you want! unlimited with pre-paid is different from what a person contract has.
May 24 at 11:54pm · 1 Like

Tony Reeder: I see also she is whining because she got TOS slapped. Very typical lazy non-reading whiner.
May 24 at 11:58pm · 2 Likes

Edward DuRose Jr: She don't have to believe. I can't make her drink the Kool-aid either!
May 25 at 12:02am · 2 Like

Aaron Rankin: Paid employees against a customer. Looks like great service.
May 25 at 12:17am 0 Like

Edward DuRose Jr Ok, somebody did drink the Kool-aid! Lol -:)
May 25 at 12:22am · 1 Like

Heather Olson ROFL!!
May 25 at 12:22am · 2 Likes

Debbie Whetstone Leprowse: Omg jennifer is a moron and needs to put on meication for her bipolar
May 25 at 1:15am · 2 Likes

Becky Bezio: If you are having service issues then YOU probably bought a phone that doesn't work in your area. That would be your fault, not ST.
May 25 at 4:12am · 1 Like

Becky Bezio: Holy crap, you need help lady... Just give up the last month and leave already.
May 25 at 6:18am · 2 Likes

Becky Bezio: Why would people with no issues come here and post, or go to a review page and post? They're not... They're just going to enjoy their service and go on with life. I however will go to all the sites you posted and leave my positive reviews.
May 25 at 6:29am · 1 Like

Richard Smith Mork calling Orson.... Mork calling Orson nah noo nah noo......
May 25 at 6:30am · 2 Likes

Melissa Fyfe-Mac sad, this company has an opportunity to make a customer feel valued and resolve issues but instead critics the customer, bad pr peeps......what ever happened to good business sense
May 25 at 7:00am · 0 Likes

Richard Smith: Melissa you are the weakest link... GOOD BYE. Learn to read before you open your trap... Save yourself from embarrassment.
May 25 at 7:32am · 2 Likes

Melissa Fyfe-Mac: Richard, you have been blocked and reported, I do not allow people to talk down to me. Have a nice weekend.
May 25 at 8:12am

Also, see below the 5 star reviews from Ed and Becca that prepaidreviews leaves up knowing they are shills working for the company. They remove the real negative comments and leave up the fake positive ones. Very poor character for a supposed 'review' site.

They also listed this womans home and work number and told everyone to spread it around and call her job and say she was unstable. That is disgusting for a company to do that and be allowed to get away with it. When I saw this and called straighttalk and asked to speak with a manager, the manager had the audacity to say 'sometimes we allow the release of personal information on our site' unreal. totally unreal. I also see that they at some point deleted those posts as I believe what they did to be not only unethical, immoral it was probably illegal as well so they removed it. This is how bad they treat their customers AFTER they sign up. Dont waste your time or money with straightlies. And watch, this will be removed shortly as well, as prepaidreviews is protecting straighttalk for some insane reason, probably because they get a piece of the action on the straightlies cell phones they sell at the top right...be careful whatever you read on this site now, i see they keep pulling bad reviews and leaving the fake lie 5 star ones up. Dirty prepaidcellreviews. Dont believe anything you read on this site, they are shills to sell phones it is now very obvious and they dont care about straighttalks real reviews. But you can believe this, all you get with straighttalk is unlimited lies, bs and bad treatment! Go anywhere else and dont buy anything off this crummy site either!

Guest
2012/06/18

I signed up with Cityfone based on an e-mail from Primus (they have been my homephone provider for a few years and very happy with them). Not so Cityfone. I switched from Telus because of poor coverage . Now I find Cityfone doesn't support iPhone Personal Hotspot. They claim they don't disable it - but also don't offer any help when it doesn't work. The old adage is true - you get what you pay for. With Cityfone you get a a stripped down voice and data service with unhelpful support. Buyer beware. They play on the link with Rogers - until you try to find out why things which work with Rogers don't work on Cityfone.

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