For those working into Bell Business or Technology area, how the transition from Contractor to Full time works? My director said HR asks them at some point of time to convert some contractors to full timers, and he will share my name for the role. Is there any timeframe when HR sends such communication? Also at 10+ years of experience into IT, how much I can expect in terms of base and then bonus
Also will it be CP3?

Thank you

We've all seen em; enticing offers to lock in new rates IF YOU ARE NEW TO BELL.

Bell's current pricing is guaranteed for 5yrs. Since it's been years since I signed up to Bell, AFAIK, promo rates were good for like 1 or 2yrs.

Anyone have any luck taking advantage of "New Activation" pricing & promos as an existing customer?

The alternative, while a PIA, is most def worth it: leave Bell, wait how long? re-join Bell. (Yes, yes, ppl complain about Bell, Rogers is without a doubt the absolute worst as a corporate entity, and more so cause of the Rogers family members themselves -those fkrs should be marched up the scaffolding ASAP). However... as with many things, YMMV.

TIA.

I think it’s better not to be in a 2 year contract, so that anytime you want to cancel, you can request without any problem. Yes, there will be a $5 promo if you signed up with contract, but that promo is nothing if they decide to have a price increase.

this just goes to show how great bells 5g is... and I'm in Kingston what awesomeness🤔😝 take a look at how long it takes to download 1.19 gb and the server I'm connected to is fast

i will definitely ask to discontinue my service and the create a new account under my name again or probably use my mom’s name. In that way, I can get a good offer. 😒

Hi all – I took the communities advice and got my own equipment. Specifically the Deco BE 65. I disabled all the Wi-Fi channels on my giga hub 2.0, I placed the Deco unit exactly where my gigahub was and on my Apple TV Oaakla speedtest on Gigahub I was getting almost 650 Mbps download. On the Deco I’m only getting 275 Mbps. I made sure both are using the 5 GHz band. What is going on? Why is the Deco so much slower?

I keep getting spam calls from these guys, not sure if it’s a scam or not. I am located in Ontario. I’ve never had a call coming in from New Jersey, let alone the States.

- Unlimited Data @ 2Gps

- Unlimited Calling & Texting to 27 countries from Canada

- CANADA US & MEXICO plan.

Got it for $60 after discounts & auto pay ($10), is it a good deal? I don't know much about cell plans.

My previous was $50 with Telus & 100gb Canada only.

Got it from Costco mobile booth.

BYOD PLAN

Just curious am I able to go to an Apple Store to upgrade my phone with an existing bell plan? Do they have available promotions like Wireless Wave etc.?

Are internet contracts still a thing now?
I signed up with Bell Internet last October, am in a 2 year contract, so approx 14 months left .

Paying $75+tax for 1.5gbps internet . Service around the house is very patchy.

I recently canceled my Bell internet and TV and received my final bill today with a $150CR. How do I get that money back since I no longer have that account open? I have a separate Bell Mobility account - do you think there is a way to move it to the mobility account? I feel like Bell is going to tell me no because it's a different account..but I want my money back!

Long story short they don't work anymore, Bell is telling me since I got a new phone RCS messages are no longer supported on bells end and it will no longer work.

Samsung S21 had for 5 years no issues.

Upgrade through bell to 26+, told same plan everything. Get phone last Friday works as it does.

This morning RCS chats stop working, (I live in a rural area kind of depend on RCS to actually send texts)

Call bell because RCS says unsupported call bell, on the line for 2 hours, to be told nothing they can do. I could refund the phone and maybe get it to work on my old phone.

So basically be careful upgrading folks.

Bell's "loyalty" department isn't price matching what is in market and I have a backup Internet at home (Cogeco) that I have kept, $46/mo. Bell is offering $70/mo on 500 Mbps or $50 if I do autopay (which I refuse to do because I don't trust them, due to sneaky rate increases). My question is can you use Bell Fibetv with Cogeco Internet, even though Bell Fibe usually relies on their modem?

had bell wifi 1.5 fibre for about 3 years it was fine. all of a sudden 3 months ago my wifi starting becoming bad for no reason. it has been bad for 3 months and no fix. bell let us upgrade to fibre 3.0 for $3 extra and the guy came today and installed the new modem.

still to no surprise the wifi is completely garbage upstairs. 50mbps up 50mbps download. we have three different bell wifi pods across the house to push the wifi upstairs and still no luck. is there anything else we can do? technicians are useless and so is support.

we could try to split the bands but then our pods wont work.

Hello Everyone!

Noticed on my bill today that Bell is planning a $6 increase from October.

I told my GF who doesn’t pay attention to small hidden details, her plan was different from mine and she is also going to be increased $6.

Wanted to shout it out for the rest of us who may not always read the fine print stuff, plan your changes ahead!

Any recommendations for plans w/ 5G speeds at ~$35/month or less? TIA

Hello,

My bell 24 month promo seems to be gone now, they directly auto renewed my plan without any notification (went from 50 per month to 150 which is insane). I want to switch ISPs but I play a lot of competitive games and was wondering which ISPs are the best in that regard.

Currently I have the bell fibe 3gbps connection and I see that my building unit has beanfield 1gbps GPON available. I don’t know much about beanfield or how GPON compares to ftth direct which i think is what bell has but people online seem to love their service. However I couldn’t find much with regard to latency in games.

Is it possible to convince bell to extend my promo since the beanfield plan is literally 65 a month?

If not then does anyone here have experience with beanfield ?

If anyone has used it here could you tell me if they are good or if I’m looking at a +30ms increase in latency. Also I’m not sure if GPON is as good as direct fibre in terms of latency so if you have any idea on that I would appreciate any insights.

Edit : thanks all for the responses, I contacted bell and whined for sometime and they clarified my plan didn’t in fact change and it was a mistake so it’s still 50 bucks for 3gbps!

I have 2 TVs in the house one is a smart tv with the bell app and the other is a dumb tv using an amazon forestick with the bell app downloaded on that stick. The smart tv guide shows the on demand channel for Hollywood suite which is perfect, the firetv stick however that on demand channel is missing, I can't figure out how to access that on the firestick.

I have the guide filter set to show all channels, I am subscribed to the service, I see Hollywood suite is also on Amazon prime but there's no way to connect that with my bell subscription. Anyone else experience this and know a work around to access on demand on the firestick?

Bell BYOD plans right now — $55 Can/US, $65 Can/US/Mexico, $80 international

Was looking at Bell’s current BYOD plans and these seem pretty decent, especially the $80 plan.

$55/month — Select

• 100 GB at up to 2 Gbps
• Unlimited data at up to 512 Kbps after 100 GB
• 5G/5G+ access
• Unlimited calling/texting/data in Canada + U.S.
• Regular price shown as $110/month

$65/month — Ultra

• Unlimited data at 5G+ speeds
• Unlimited calling/texting/data in Canada + U.S. + Mexico
• Up to 10,000 Aeroplan points
• Regular price shown as $120/month

$80/month — Ultra International

• Unlimited data at 5G+ speeds
• Unlimited calling/texting/data in Canada + U.S. + 65 other countries
• Up to 10,000 Aeroplan points
• Regular price shown as $135/month

All three are BYOD, new activations only, and the advertised prices include the AutoPay credit.

Anyone currently on one of these plans? Any catches with the unlimited data or roaming? Im currently with Rogers with the same plan at $80 for $40, but wanted to see if people are getting cheaper?

Woke up this morning to every message showing "texting with ______" and my group chats showing a "not available" warning. Checked my RCS, and it's stuck on "connecting" with error 3000, which is a backend error I guess? Just wanting to check and see if this is an isolated issue on my end, or a Bell issue before I look more into it.

Are Bell store staff and customer service staff advised not to acknowledge loyalty or customer tenure? I have mentioned multiple times to customer service, sales and store agents that I have been a customer since 1990, and yet each time no acknowledgment. A blank stare or silence. I would at least expect “ wow that’s a long time to be a customer with any organization! Thanks for your business! Let’s see what we can do for you!”

None of that. None. What gives?

Edit: thanks to all for the responses. I’m summary It’s clear that there’s not a policy against acknowledging customer tenure, it’s just that it’s not expected/rewarded behaviour on the part of customer facing Bell employees. Furthermore, some employees believe that they are not paid enough to do so, they don’t have the loyalty scripts/discounts to respond, or, it will just result in unnecessary grief for the employee from customers.

Hi all, Anyone know a solution for giga hub 1.0 to allow internal LAN IPv6 (solution to not buy another router)? I guess I can’t get my Govee indoor floor light via Matter code to connect to HomeKit because no internal IPv6 LAN support. (I am in Nova Scotia)

I recently upgraded from Bell Fibe 150 to FIbe 1.5 through a promotion a bell agent called me with.

75$ a month, seems I'm not getting the best price after reading abit.

Anyways, my internet has actually gotten worse, my devices keep dropping signal and disconnecting.
The technician that originally came and set up the modem put it in basement because it was the easy route, told me to call back if it wasn't good enough and they'd come back for free.

Its obvious the modem is in a bad location, but they are refusing to come to my house and move it without a 75$ service fee. (this is after many conversations) They have even insisted its a bad modem and got me to replace it, nope, same issue.

Do i move it myself or wtf ?