What is included in Bell Plans?
Billing Period
15th of the month to the 14th of the month following. These dates are important because your usage and your ‘Flex’ Travel plans are reset at the beginning of each Billing Period.
Note: The rates referenced below are current as of March 16, 2020, but are subject to change.
Basic Plan
Voice – $20.00 for 250 minutes pooled local calling. Unlimited Nights & Weekends.
Text – unlimited, Canada wide texts. Unlimited incoming texts from outside of Canada
Picture text – varies by phone. $0.25 per picture text, or $1.00 for unlimited.
Data – Only applies to iPhones; our TELUS Android phones do NOT have a Data plan and this feature should not be accessible from these phones. Plan costs are $30.00 for the first 6 GB of data, additional usage is approximately $50 per 1 GB. Unlike voice, data is NOT pooled.
Long Distance
$0.08 per minute Canadian long distance; $0.15 per minute US long distance
All of our phones are London, Ontario based. If you are outside of the London calling area, you will also be charged long distance rates for incoming calls. That is, if you are in Calgary and one of your Western colleagues in London calls you from their desk phone, you will be charged $0.08 per minute.
Travel Plans
Various plans are available. Most need to be requested each time you use it and will cover 30 days. Frequent travelers can request a ‘Roam Ready’ package, which is always on the phone, but you are only charged when you use it.
If you require a travel plan, please email fm-it@uwo.ca at least 5 business days before travel starts.
If you use your phone outside of the country, and you do not have a travel plan, you can expect charges in the $100s if not $1,000 dollar range.
