Rogers Introduces Ultimate Unlimited Family Plans
By: calendar iconFebruary 6th, 2012 a 12:10pm

Ultimate Unlimited Family Plans from RogersBy definition, a family is a group of people who are joined together – whether in a close partnership, through marriage or by co-residence. Whether you’re a family in the traditional sense, or you’re sharing an apartment with your friends, living at home with your parents or moving in with a boyfriend – you’re considered a family to us.

Starting tomorrow, Rogers is launching the Ultimate Unlimited Family Plan allowing you to limitlessly chat with your best friends about upcoming plans, give your daughter endless local minutes to gossip about the Bachelor or let your husband send unlimited messages to the boys about the game.

While Rogers has had Family Plans for some time, what’s new is that now you have truly unlimited local talk and extreme text messaging so you never have to worry about going over your minutes or minimizing your hour-long text sessions. With everyone on this plan, every month, you will receive one bill for your whole family that helps make managing the family wireless bills a little easier.

The Ultimate Unlimited Family plan starts at $95.94 per month for two lines including unlimited voice and messaging or $140.94 per month for two lines including unlimited voice, unlimited messaging, and 2GB of shared data. You can add additional lines to your unlimited voice and messaging plan for just $27.97 per line per month and to your unlimited voice, messaging and data plan for $37.97 per line per month. With these family plans you’ll receive great unlimited features including:

  • Unlimited local talk
  • Unlimited Extreme Text Messaging
  • Unlimited Canadian-wide calling between plan members
  • Unlimited Canadian-wide calling from your computer (new and only from Rogers!)

With the voice and data plan option, your plan members will share 2GB of data with the option to increase this for just $10 a month for an additional 1GB of data. You can also add-on unlimited Canadian-wide long distance for $10 per line per month. Both this option and unlimited Canadian-wide calling from your computer is available for you to stay connected with family members located outside of your local calling area.

As always, Rogers offers you a wide selection of the latest and greatest devices for every member of your family and when you’re purchasing one eligible device you can get up to 4 more at $0 each with a 3-year term Ultimate Unlimited Family Plan. This offer includes some of the hottest devices including the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE, Motorola RAZR, HTC Raider, Nokia Lumia 710 and many more. All Rogers customers also gain value from many included Rogers services such as Rogers Phone Finder and the Handset Protection Guarantee Program.

What unlimited feature would you use the most in your family?

Katie is a regular contributor to RedBoard

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  1. Randy says: February 9th, 2012 a 1:42am

    How long before there’s a true unlimited plan for single line only accounts? Unlimited Local and Long distance calling besides using the RogersOneNumber web application and my5/10 plans.

    • RogersNicolas says: February 9th, 2012 a 1:01pm

      We’re always working on providing the best services at the best rate. As of today, you can add an Unlimited Mobile to Mobile option to your plan. Also, most of our plans include Unlimited local calling evenings and week-ends.

      Thanks for your feedback!

  2. Imagine Engine says: February 9th, 2012 a 12:16pm

    Great start but I’d like to see more shared data (i.e. 10 to 20 GB) to cover my family needs without costing a fortune. Also it would make more sense to have shareable North America and International long distance add on options instead of paying a seperate fee on each line.

    • RogersNicolas says: February 9th, 2012 a 12:51pm

      Hi,

      Thanks for the comment. 2 GB should more than enough for a family of 4.
      We’re listening to customers feedback and, as such, our services are always open to change.

  3. Rogerthat says: February 10th, 2012 a 2:02pm

    Caller ID and Voicemail should be FREE on any plans. That’s what the rest of the world do!! The unlimited incoming calls is new here. You know, we have had that included in any plans for like 8 years in my country.
    Oh and at least calling within the same province should consider “local”. In US, there’s no long distance charge making/receiving call to/from anywhere in country. They even rollover unused minites to the next month!! Canadian pay too much on everything.

  4. Manuel says: February 12th, 2012 a 1:13am

    This isn’t too bad but it would truly be ultimate if you guys included call display and vm, two features that most people hate having to pay for. Several of the new providers include this as a standard feature, is there’s a chance that rogers may one day see that in the year 2012 call display and voicemail are not add-ons but standard features?

    I’m not going to get into childish bashing but all I can tell you the thing that I think gripes people the most is having to pay for features like that, or paying an activation fee every time we upgrade our phones, these are silly fees that are a total cash cow.

    I’ll admit, the service isn’t bad, anytime I want to make a call I get signal but quite frankly, if one of the new providers carried the iPhone I would have jumped ship a long time ago, in fact, I thought about paying and upgrading to the latest iPhone but I’ve decided to keep it and let my contract run out, hopefully by then, they’ll have it. Rogers, love the service, hate the under handed pricing tactics.

  5. Kevin F says: February 12th, 2012 a 6:09pm

    Hello, since this plan is available month by month, this would mean existing customers on voice/data plan would NOT have to recommit, correct? They could use their EXISITING Term?

  6. Jordan Clark says: February 17th, 2012 a 6:09am

    Is voicemail or call display included with this plan? I’m really considering upgrade my whole family to smartphones, and this plan seems good for what we need. But we will need one or the other, or possibly both.

    • RogersNicolas says: February 17th, 2012 a 1:28pm

      Hi Jordan,

      I’m glad to hear that. Those 2 features are not included in that plan, you’d have to get a value pack.

  7. Jordan Clark says: February 21st, 2012 a 8:15pm

    Does this plan (or more specifically the Unlimited Value Family Plan) support if I wanted two iPhones that are currently on plans, with upgrading two regular phones, that also have plans, to android smart phones?

    My Plan now:
    1 x iPhone 4
    1 x iPhone 4S
    1 x Samsung Gravity (non-smartphone)
    1 x LG something (non-smartphone)

    What I want:
    1 x iPhone 4 (stay the same)
    1 x iPhone 4S (stay the same)
    1 x Xperia Play (upgraded)
    1 x HTC Raider (upgraded)

    Thanks for any help,
    Jordan

    • RogersNicolas says: February 21st, 2012 a 8:46pm

      Hi Jordan,

      I’ll advise you to contact Customer Service. You may contact us via Twitter @RogersHelps or Facebook, but ultimately if you wish to change your plans, you’d have to call.

  8. Stephanie says: February 23rd, 2012 a 11:09am

    Where can I find more info on the “get up to 4 more at $0 each with a 3-year term Ultimate Unlimited Family Plan”? I didn’t see it on the rogers website. Thanks in advance.

  9. dawn roper says: February 23rd, 2012 a 12:53pm

    Clear as mud. I can understand what you’re saying, but it still doesn’t make sense that “long distance” is still a topic at all. Do signals cost more to bounce around once the equipment is in place? I don’t get that an outgoing call from a phyical locaion does less bouncing (and thus costs less) than an incomeing call from the same location – or any other for that matter. I keep envisioning Lilly Tomlin sitting some where saying “One Ringey-dingey…. two ringey-dingey” and I would have thought that business model was long dead.

  10. Dave says: February 27th, 2012 a 11:16am

    It is great that the family plan exist but what happens when one person has a blackberry and requires BES data plan and the other just required a regular data plan.
    This happened to me and it does not work. Now my phone plan is more expensive!!!

  11. Priti says: March 1st, 2012 a 2:57am

    For Ultimate Unlimited Family Plan:
    do you pick one out of unlimited extreme text messaging or picture video messaging? Or does it include both in the package?

    Is caller id and voice mail included?

    What is the difference from Canada wide family member calling vs Canada Wide Long distance??

    Thank You

    • RogersNicolas says: March 1st, 2012 a 12:00pm

      To answer your first question, it includes unlimited extreme texts/picture/video messages sent from Canada to a Canadian wireless number and received texts from anywhere.

      Caller ID and Voicemail are not included but can be added.

      Canada-wide family plan member calling allows calls between family plan members wherever they are in Canada for no extra-charge.
      The Canada-wide Long Distance add-on ($10 per line) allows long distance calls to any number within Canada.

      Let me know if you have any questions.

  12. Priti says: March 1st, 2012 a 3:02am

    What is the total cost for the plan? 30$? Is it really true?

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