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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."

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  1. ObVader by rossdee · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

  2. Re:What??? by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 2, Funny

    Telus is Evil I tells ya, EVIL!!!! It was a happy day when they called me to try to convince me to come back after I cut them out of my life. I told them they would have to take a long hard suck on my *** before I would ever come back to them.

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  3. Re:What??? by sanosuke001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, from now on, can the US purchase oil from you Canadians if we send back 75% of the Vaseline we produce from it? It sounds like you all need it up there...

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    -SaNo
  4. Re:What??? by mstahl · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just LOLed on the train because of you. Now people are staring more than usual.... Thanks for that.

  5. What troll? by QZTR · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everything I said there was accurate, i never insuklted or belittled anyone, and did nothing offensive of any kind.

    WHy did you mod me troll?

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    To quote LongNoi "QZTR was right and won't leave me alone because I called him a moron when I was wrong" FYS