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TELUS Forcing Customers Off Unlimited Plans
An anonymous reader writes "Canadian telco TELUS sold a bunch of (expensive) Unlimited EV-DO aircard accounts last winter and are now summarily canceling them or forcing people to switch to much less valuable plans. TELUS is citing 'Violations,' but their Terms Of Service (see #5) are utterly vague and self-contradictory. The TELUS plans were marketed as being unlimited, without the soft/hard caps that the other providers had at the time. They were purchased by a lot of rural Canadians who had no other choice except dialup. Now TELUS is forcing everyone to switch from a $75 Unlimited plan to a $65 1GB plan, and canceling those who won't switch. Have a look at the thread at Howardforums, a discussion of the TELUS ToS (in red at the bottom), an EV-DO blogger who's been a victim, a post at Electronista, and of course Verizon getting fined for doing the same thing! Michael Geist has taken an interest as well."
I don't know what laws are in Canada for contracts but in the US and California this will be totally illegal. One person won a case in the California Supreme Court against a telco for claiming "Unlimited" service but the telco "changed" their plan to "limit" there service and the person sued about change of services without consent and this person won.
I do not have a cell phone because i do not agree with their stupid contracts terms. If you do not agree with the terms of the contracts from cell providers just don't subscribe. If anybody read the contract and think about what it says for one second they would not sign it.