{"id":411,"date":"2008-11-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2008-11-03T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T13:00:00","slug":"christmas-must-be-just-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Christmas must be just around the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/cnw\/081103\/e_bellmobil_rolloverm.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"New Bell\" src=\"http:\/\/bell.ca\/web\/images\/lg_bell.gif\" width=\"xxx\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As if to launch the Christmas sales season, Bell Mobility has launched new rate plans that let users roll-over unused minutes from one month to the next.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians have been watching ads from US carriers that offer such plans and Bell is the first major service provider to bring a variant of this offer to Canada. Bell will let you carry over unused local airtime voice minutes for one additional month, not indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bell Mobility President Wade Oosterman:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 85%; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;\"><p>With Rollover Minutes, you no longer have to use &#8217;em or lose &#8217;em. If you undertalk one month, you can overtalk the next. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The plans are available until December 31 to Bell Mobility clients who sign a three-year contract. Customers can choose between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bell.ca\/rollover\">rate plans<\/a> that are broken into three categories: Rollover Minutes, Rollover Minutes &#038; Email, and Rollover Minutes, Email &#038; Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the popular offer from most service providers was unlimited email and web browsing. What is in Santa&#8217;s bag for Christmas 2008?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:78%;\">Technorati Tags:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Bell\" rel=\"tag\">Bell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/roll+over\" rel=\"tag\">roll over<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if to launch the Christmas sales season, Bell Mobility has launched new rate plans that let users roll-over unused minutes from one month to the next. Canadians have been watching ads from US carriers that offer such plans and Bell is the first major service provider to bring a variant of this offer to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=411\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas must be just around the corner<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christmas must be just around the corner &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As if to launch the Christmas sales season, Bell Mobility has launched new rate plans that let users roll-over unused minutes from one month to the &#8226; 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