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About Our Wireless Features

Included Features
Conference Calling
Included.

Ever had a time when you needed to speak to 2 people at once? Conference 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 Conference calling:

1.  To initiate Conference 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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Voice Solutions
Unlimited Evenings & Weekends
$20 per month.

Unlimited evenings and weekends can be added to any of our price plans except More $15.

This feature allows you to make and receive unlimited local calls during evenings and on the weekend. Evening hours are from 9pm to 7am, Monday to Friday. Weekend hours are from 9pm Friday to 7am Monday.

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.

50 Anytime Minutes
$8 per month.

Need more minutes? This feature lets you add 50 local anytime minutes to most monthly price plans. This feature is not available to add on the More $15 plan. Please note this feature is applied to the account, and not available per person, when being added to a Primus More Sharing™ plan.

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Call Management Solutions
Call Display
$5 per month.

See who’s calling before you answer. Call display sends the phone number of the person calling you to your phone so that you can decide which calls to answer. If the person calling you is stored in your cell phone address book, the person’s name will also appear.

Name Display & Call Display
$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.

Block Outgoing Call Display
No Charge.

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

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  
$5 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.
Convenience Solutions
411 Directory Assistance
$1.50 per use

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 Solutions

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 / USA
PPU (Pay Per Use) or monthly plan

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.

ITEM
SEND
RECEIVE
  Included messages Additional messages  
Pay-per-use
0
15¢
Free
$3 Plan
30
15¢
Free
$5 Plan
75
15¢
Free
$8 Plan
125 15¢
Free

Canada to International
30¢ per message

Sending a text message overseas is easy and affordable. For only 30¢ per message, you’ll wonder why you didn’t text message friends and family overseas sooner.

Before sending a text message, please check to see which countries and carriers you can send a text message to.

To send an international text message:

  • 1.  Press the plus “+” sign
  • 2.  Enter the country code
  • 3.  Enter the region code
  • 4.  Enter the mobile # that you’re sending the text message to
  • 5.  Press send.


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Data Solutions

Need to check the weather, get a sports score, or just catch up on news? Use your Primus Wireless phone to conveniently surf the wireless web to get all this information and more.

There are 3 options to surf the web: pay-per-use, plus 2 monthly packages that offer you great value.

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


PLAN
INCLUDED DATA
EXTRA DATA
Pay-per-use
None
5¢ per Kilobyte
$3 / month
¼ Megabyte
5¢ per Kilobyte
$7 / month
1 Megabyte
5¢ per Kilobyte

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

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