Telus weekend sale discounts plans by $10

Telus is running a weekend sale, which brings the prices of its wireless plans to about what they were at the beginning of May before the carrier raised prices.

Check out the current prices below:

• $60/100GB 5G (1Gbps speed) – previously $70/100GB.
• $70/175GB 5G (1Gbps speed) Canada/U.S. – previously $80/175GB.
• $90/250GB 5G (2Gbps speed) Canada/U.S./Mexico – previously $100/250GB.

If you want to finance a phone from Telus, you’ll need to tack an extra $5/mo onto the above plans (previously, the difference was $10). Note the above prices also include a $10/mo discount for using pre-authorized bank payments. Customers can save an extra $15/mo by bundling with Telus home services.

All of the plans include unlimited data use, which means that once customers have used all of their allotted data, they can continue using throttled data at speeds of up to 512Kbps. The plans also include unlimited Canada-wide calling and unlimited international texting. Plus, Telus is offering mobile customers 39 per cent off the company’s Stream+ Premium bundle for six months.

While the above plans are certainly better deals than what Telus had before, I wouldn’t exactly call them “good.” For example, Freedom Mobile offers a $59/mo plan with 100GB of 5G data that bundles Canada/U.S./Mexico, along with 25GB of ‘Roam Beyond’ data for use in other regions. Plus, customers can get a phone with that plan if they want.

Compared to Telus’ similarly priced plan, which is only for customers who bring their own device and only works in Canada, the Freedom plan seems like the obvious choice. And that’s not even getting into the cheaper plans, like $39/60GB Canada/U.S./Mexico, or any of the plans from Telus-owned Public Mobile, which are very similar to Freedom.

Anyway, you can check out Telus’ latest plans on its website. The company said the plans will stick around until May 21, which give customers a little more than the weekend to nab a discounted rate.