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Wireless Features

Get more value from your Primus Wireless service!
Primus Wireless already includes convenient calling features like group calling and call waiting for free.

There are other features that you can add to your price plan to help you get the most value from your Primus Wireless service.

Check out our features for all your wireless needs.
Included Features
Group Calling and Call Waiting
Value Packs
Save more with Primus Wireless by adding on one of our value packs such as Call Management or Name Display & Call Display bundle
Basic Add Ons

Additional features to add on to simplify your life; basic voicemail, name display/call display and extended evenings.

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Long Distance
Using Primus' wireless access codes, start making wireless long distance calls at only
5¢ /min! Or choose one of long distance packages.
Messaging & Data
Text, Instant messaging, Email or you can browse the internet to keep in touch with your friends and family.
Other

Roaming applies any time you go off of the Primus network and are using your phone.

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Included Features
Group Calling
Included

Ever had a time when you needed to speak to 2 people at once? Group Calling is your solution. This feature allows you to have a conversation with 2 people at the same time.

Please note that airtime is charged separately for each call in progress. Long distance charges may apply if a call is made or received outside of your local calling area.

How to use Group Calling:

1.  To initiate Group Calling, press Talk/Send
      to put the first call on hold.
2.
 Call the next participant and then press Talk/Send
      to put the second call on hold.
3.
 Finally press “3” and then Talk/Send to link all of the participants.
Call Waiting
Included

Call Waiting helps you take important calls when you're on the phone by alerting you when another call comes through. You can either accept the second incoming call or let it to go straight to voice mail (if you subscribe to this service).

Call Waiting works with Call Display so you can see the name and/or number of who's calling you before you decide to interrupt your first call.

While call waiting generally works by using the Send/End or Talk/End buttons, check your cell phone user guide to see how call waiting works with your particular phone.

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Primus Wireless Long Distance

5¢/min Wireless Long Distance:
Using Primus' wireless access codes, start making wireless long distance calls at only 5¢ /min when calling within Canada, or to the U.S.!

Click here to see roaming rates outside of Canada without the access code.

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Value Packs

Call Management Bundle
$12 per month.

Includes Enhanced Voice Mail, Call Display and Name Display

Name Display & Call Display Bundle
$8 per month.

Name display is a new service that lets you see the name of landline callers in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland, as well as some wireless callers. This service is an enhancement to Call Display. Please note that this service does not work on all handsets.

Talk Text & Data Bundle 1000
$15 per month.

Includes Call Display with Name Display, Enhanced Voicemail, 1,000 Messaging Bundle (for SMS, MMS and Email) Who Called and Unlimited WAP browsing

Unlimited Talk Text & Data Bundle
$20 per month.

Includes Call Display with Name Display, Enhanced Voicemail, Unlimited Messaging (for SMS, MMS and Email) Who Called and Unlimited WAP browsing

Basic Add Ons

Block Outgoing Call Display

No Charge.

To block your number before you make a call, dial *67 before the number you’re calling.

Extended Evenings
$7 per month.

This feature lets you start the evening clock at 6pm for our unlimited evenings and weekends feature or our More Evenings & Weekends price plan.


WhoCalled
$3 per month.

WhoCalled is a service that sends you a text message with a list of phone numbers that have attempted to call you when your phone was turned off. If you turn your phone off during meetings, flights or class, take the subway, use parking garages or elevators where you get no signal or if your friends and family don't like to leave voicemail messages you are missing calls.

1000 Incoming Minutes
$12 per month.

Add on this feature to get 1000 free incoming minutes!

Voicemail

Sometimes it’s not always convenient to answer your cell phone, or sometimes you just aren’t available. With voicemail, you never have to worry about missing important calls. Voicemail allows callers to leave you a message that you can listen at your convenience. Primus wireless offers 2 types of voicemail service.

Basic  
$7 per month.

Basic voicemail is perfect for people that need a simple voicemail solution.

Enhanced  
$8 per month.

Enhanced voicemail is a powerful voicemail solution that gives you the extra message storage capacity you need, and lets you reply to messages at the touch of a button to a person or group.

    Key Features:
  • All the features of Basic voicemail plus:
  • More storage - store up to 50, 3 minute messages for up to 30 days
  • Skip entering your password to retrieve messages faster (if you wish). This feature can be turned on or off anytime.
  • Call return - connect immediately to the caller who left you a message, just by pressing '8'. When you're done, you'll be returned to your voicemail session to continue listening to messages.
  • Group Messaging - send a single voice message to 50 Primus Wireless Voicemail users at the same time. You can create up to 20 group-messaging lists.
411 Directory Assistance
$2.00 per

Need to quickly find a number? 411 directory assistance conveniently provides you the phone number you’re looking for. Don’t worry about having to remember the number because Primus Wireless automatically connects the call, and sends you the listing as a free text message to your cell phone so that you have it available for next time.

* Airtime and long distance charges may apply.

Call Forwarding
$3 per month

Call Forwarding lets you redirect incoming calls to another phone number. Call Forwarding is available as a monthly feature.

Call Forwarding is available for $3 per month, and includes 2,500 local Call Forwarding minutes. Long distance charges would be extra (if applicable).

To activate: *21* (receiving phone number) # SEND
To deactivate: #21# SEND

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Text Messaging & Data

Say something without ever speaking a word. Text messaging is a convenient, affordable and fast way to send messages to almost anyone. Each text message gives you up to 160 characters to share your thoughts with someone else. Please refer to your phone’s manual for specific instructions to send, read, reply and store text messages.

Canada to Canada

PPU (Pay Per Use)

Text messaging is available either on a pay-per-use (PPU) or monthly plan basis. The following pricing refers to messages sent while in Canada to a Canadian or US cell phone number.
The cost per use is $0.15!


Instant Messaging

$5 per month.

Primus Instant Messaging lets you chat with friends and family on the go - anytime, anywhere - using Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger.


Email

$5 per month.

Get email on the go with Primus MobileMail. MobileMail now supports gmail and most internet sevice provider and web-based email accounts.

Unlimited Wap Browsing

$10 per month.

Get access to email, data, top social networking sites like Facebook™, Twitter™, MySpace™ and Flickr™. Use your Primus Wireless phone to conveniently surf the wireless web to get all this information and more.

The cost for pay per use is $.05 per KB.

You only pay for the amount of data transferred (measured in Kilobytes), not time. So you can take your time surfing the wireless web.

There is minimum usage of 4Kb for each data session, with 1 Kb increments thereafter.

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Roaming

Click here to see roaming rates outside of Canada without the access code.


 
Pay per Use
Out of Bucket Rate
Voice
Voice Roaming in US
$1.45/min
$1.45/min
LD
LD Roaming in US
Included in Roaming
Included in Roaming
SMS Roaming in US - Sent
$0.75/SMS
$0.75/SMS
SMS International - Sent
$0.75/SMS
$0.75/SMS
Data
Data Roaming in US
$0.03/KB
$0.03/KB
MobileMail (Email)
Mobile Mail Roaming in US - Sent
$0.20/message plus $0.03/KB
$0.20/message plus $0.03/KB
Mobile Mail International -Sent
$0.20/message plus various roaming per KB rates
$0.20/message plus various roaming per KB rates
Instant Messages
Instant Messages Roaming in US - Sent
$0.15/message plus $0.03/KB
$0.15/message plus $0.03/KB
Instant Messages International - Sent
$0.15/message plus various roaming per KB rates
$0.15/message plus various roaming per KB rates
MMS
MMS Roaming in US - Sent
$0.50/message plus $0.03/KB $0.50/message plus $0.03/KB
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