@Bell Canada backpedals, Twitter SMS now -- almost -- free
by Sean Cooper 
posted Feb 27th 2009 at 12:16PM
We had a quick chat with Bell Canada's Julie Smithers, and apparently the user gripes, moaning, and all around sadness seem to have helped Twitter and Bell strike up a new conversation about your beloved. Bell and Twitter have agreed that incoming Twitter SMSes will be free on Bell -- provided you have a Bell SMS bundle -- and that outgoing will be charged just like any other text would be. So if your plan includes 30 sent messages -- like the $3 SMS bundle -- and you go over, you'll get dinged just like you would sending normal text messages. So let the merriment begin Canada, go forth, sign up for unlimited texting, and tweet like we know you've been itching to since November last year.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Adam @ Feb 27th 2009 2:12PM
Not to get all Greenpeace but where is that picture from, is it really an official Bell ad? A whale being pulled out of the ocean in a net? That's bad right, thats what Japan gets in trouble for all the time? Am I missing something?
They couldn't come up with a better idea? How about a whale IN the ocean.
Greenpeas @ Feb 27th 2009 2:07PM
Maybe Bell is just picking the whale up before releasing it back into the wild so the whale will have something to twitter about.
Josh @ Feb 27th 2009 2:29PM
That would be the Twitter fail whale... You new?
Adam @ Feb 27th 2009 2:38PM
Ahh that makes more sense (just googled "Twitter fail whale"). Yeah I haven't paid much attention to Twitter unfortunately. Thanks for the education.
Haha I kind of wanted it to be a morbid Bell ad, but oh well...
ai4281 @ Feb 28th 2009 9:04PM
Twitter SMS is pretty useless if you have a smartphone with a data plan, and a Twitter App...
But I guess not everyone has smartphones, and still like to Twit about stuff. Meh. Good for Bell. Now, why aren't Telus and Rogers doing reasonable things?
Tom @ Mar 16th 2009 10:41PM
Well, data plans are good and all but the relative lack of non-blackberry unlmited data plans in Canada mean that sms will be the lifeblood for many for awhile to come.