Best Phone Plans in Saskatchewan (October 2026)

For most people in Saskatchewan, the best phone plan right now is Public Mobile’s 50GB 5G plan at $35/mo. If you want SaskTel’s own network for less, SaskTel’s online brand Lüm Mobile works out to about $30 a month when you pay for a year up front.

The cheapest plans right now

A few things the table doesn’t tell you. SaskTel only sells in Saskatchewan, so its rows are the province’s own prices. They’re shown without SaskTel’s $20/mo discount for bringing your own phone, which you only get on a new line; where that discount applies, the lower price is listed under the row. Most other rows are national prices, and we couldn’t find Saskatchewan-specific prices from Bell, Rogers or Telus. Lüm Mobile’s one-month membership is in the table. Its three-month and one-year memberships are paid up front, so they’re in their own section below. And two carriers you’ll see in national roundups, Freedom Mobile and Fizz, don’t sell here at all.

Quick take

• Best for most people: Public Mobile at $35/mo for 50GB on 5G. Self-serve only: no store and no phone support.
• Most data for the money: Public Mobile’s 175GB Canada-US-Mexico plan at $50/mo. It carried 175GB as a Back to School offer, dropped to 150GB on October 10, 2026, and went back to 175GB on October 24 with no offer label.
• SaskTel’s network for less: Lüm Mobile. Its one-year 360GB membership is $360 up front, which works out to about 30GB for $30 a month, on 5G. Saskatchewan residents only.
• Cheapest SaskTel plan with plenty of data: Promo Nationwide 50 at $60/mo^† for 50GB. You need your own phone on a new line, and SaskTel calls the plan limited-time.
• If you want a store and a human: Koodo at $50/mo^† for 60GB, on the Telus network. That price needs pre-authorized bank payments; without them, budget up to $60.
• Skip: SaskTel’s Talk + Text + Data 35 at $35/mo^† for 3GB. Public Mobile sells 35GB for $30/mo.

SaskTel’s full lineup, with the fine print

Here is SaskTel’s whole consumer lineup, verified November 1, 2026. The last column is the price with SaskTel’s $20/mo discount for bringing your own phone or buying one at full price. You only get that discount when you add a new line.

SaskTel overhauled this lineup in late September 2026. Its capped totalSHARE and VIP plans are gone, replaced by plans with unlimited full-speed data, and Basic Nationwide 15 dropped $5.

Plan	Data	Price	With the own-phone discount
Talk + Text + Data 15	250MB at full speed, then 256 Kbps	$15	not eligible
Talk + Text + Data 35	3GB, up to 10 Mbps	$35†	not eligible
Talk + Text 40	none	$40	not eligible
Promo Nationwide 50	50GB	$60† (own phone, new line)	not eligible
Basic Nationwide 15	15GB, up to 250 Mbps	$80†	$60
VIP Unlimited Canada & U.S.	Unlimited in Canada and the U.S.	$85†	$65
Unlimited Nationwide	Unlimited in Canada	$90	$70
VIP Unlimited Canada, U.S. & Mexico	Unlimited in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico	$95†	$75
Unlimited Canada & U.S.	Unlimited in Canada and the U.S.	$100	$80
Unlimited Canada, U.S. & Mexico	Unlimited in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico	$115	$95

Things the table doesn’t show:

1. A $2.65/mo 911 charge on every device. $2.22 of it is Saskatchewan’s provincial 911 fee, which every wireless provider has to pay the province, so it isn’t unique to SaskTel. The other $0.43 is SaskTel’s own.
2. The own-phone discount needs a new line. SaskTel says it’s “available to new and existing customers with a new activation only,” so an existing customer with a paid-off phone doesn’t get it just by asking.
3. VIP isn’t a plan you can just buy. Both VIP Unlimited plans require maxTV or maxTV Stream and a SaskTel infiNET or interNET plan, with the accounts linked in mySASKTEL. If you stop qualifying, SaskTel says you “may be moved to a comparable wireless plan.”
4. Basic Nationwide 15 has no hotspot at all, tops out at 250 Mbps, and charges $2 per 100MB over.
5. The Talk + Text + Data plans need a phone you own outright or buy at full price, and they top out at 10 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up. They can’t get the own-phone discount, the bundle discount or the student discount, and extra data on the $35 plan is $10 per 100MB.
6. Promo plan data can’t be shared between lines, and the Family Discount only covers the Unlimited and VIP plans.
7. “Unlimited” means unlimited full-speed data on the phone, not the hotspot. Unlimited Nationwide includes 15GB of full-speed hotspot data, the Canada & U.S. plans 30GB, and the Mexico plans 60GB. Hotspot speed drops to 512 Kbps after that.
8. The U.S. plans come with a commitment. On the Canada & U.S. and Mexico plans, SaskTel requires you to stay on one of those plans until your contract term ends.

The $15 plan deserves a note, because it’s the cheapest phone plan SaskTel sells and it isn’t quite what it looks like. The data is unlimited, but only the first 250MB runs at full speed (up to 10 Mbps); after that it drops to 256 Kbps. It also includes just 100 minutes of calling, at $0.30 a minute after that. As a second line or a kid’s first phone it’s reasonable. As a main line it isn’t.

SaskTel also sells noSTRINGS Prepaid, with no contract, no credit check and no overage fees: $20 for talk and text, $35 for 1GB, $55 for 10GB, and $100 for unlimited Canada-U.S. data that slows down after 60GB. New sign-ups get $10/mo off for 12 months on select plans. Even so, $35 for 1GB is a hard sell when Public Mobile’s $30/mo plan includes 35GB.

Lüm Mobile: SaskTel’s network for less

Lüm Mobile is SaskTel’s online-only brand. It runs on SaskTel’s network, includes 5G on every plan, and only signs up Saskatchewan residents with a local address.

It works differently from a normal plan. Instead of paying a monthly bill, you buy a membership: a block of data for one month, three months or a year, paid up front by credit card. Prices verified November 1, 2026:

Membership	Data	Price	Works out to
1 month (eSIM only)	15GB	$40	$40 a month
3 months	40GB	$90	$30 a month
3 months	90GB	$120	$40 a month
3 months	150GB	$150	$50 a month
1 year	150GB	$300	$25 a month
1 year	360GB	$360	$30 a month
1 year	500GB	$420	$35 a month

Every membership includes unlimited calls and texts from Canada to anywhere in Canada and the U.S., and those keep working if your data runs out. Unused data rolls over once, into your next membership. There’s no activation fee and no throttling, and the first SIM is free.

The catches: you pay for the whole term at once, voicemail costs extra ($5 a month or $60 a year), extra data you buy partway through doesn’t roll over, and there are no stores or call centres.

If you want SaskTel’s coverage without SaskTel’s prices, this is the pick. The one-year 360GB membership works out to about the same monthly cost as Public Mobile’s 35GB plan at $30/mo, with 5G on SaskTel’s network.

Why Saskatchewan should be cheap, and what actually happened

This is the part a national plan database won’t tell you.

In February 2017, the Competition Bureau published its findings on Bell’s purchase of Manitoba’s MTS. Its conclusion was blunt: because of coordinated behaviour among Bell, Telus and Rogers, wireless prices in Canada are higher wherever those three don’t face a strong regional competitor. The Bureau’s pricing analysis, run on the companies’ own confidential data, found that “mobile wireless pricing in Saskatchewan, Thunder Bay, Quebec and Manitoba is substantially lower than in the rest of Canada.” Those were the four places with a strong regional competitor. The Bureau found no consistent link between that price gap and quality, coverage, demographics or geography.

Manitoba lost its regional competitor that year. Saskatchewan didn’t. Manitoba’s guide covers what happened there. Here, SaskTel is still owned by the Government of Saskatchewan, through Crown Investments Corporation.

So does the Saskatchewan discount still exist? We can’t show that it does. The Bureau was measuring prices from Bell, Telus and Rogers, and we couldn’t find Saskatchewan-specific prices from any of the three. Their rows in the table above are their national prices.

What we can compare is SaskTel’s own pricing, and SaskTel’s main brand is not the cheap option. Its cheapest 50GB plan is $60/mo^†, and only with your own phone on a new line. Its standard plan, Unlimited Nationwide, is $70 with your own phone on a new line and $90/mo otherwise. Public Mobile sells 50GB on 5G for $35/mo.

SaskTel does sell cheaper plans, just not under its own name. Lüm Mobile, covered above, runs on SaskTel’s network at prices close to the national value carriers.

SaskTel’s coverage

SaskTel publishes strong coverage numbers. Its LTE network reaches more than 99% of the province’s population and 98% of major roads and highways. As of March 31, 2026, it had converted more than 930 sites to 5G, covering 94% of the population, and it has started rolling out faster 5G+ in Regina, Saskatoon and some other communities. In 2025-26 it spent $136.3 million on wireless, out of $443.3 million in total capital spending.

Those numbers describe SaskTel’s network, not how it compares with anyone else’s. SaskTel, Bell and Telus have long given each other access to their networks, under what a 2016 report for SaskTel calls a “Three Party Agreement”. We couldn’t confirm how that arrangement works today, or which towers budget brands like Public Mobile use in rural Saskatchewan. If you spend real time on grid roads, at the lake or north of Prince Albert, check the SaskTel, Lüm and Public Mobile coverage maps for those exact places before you switch. If SaskTel’s network is the one you want, Lüm gets you onto it for much less.

One date worth knowing: SaskTel shuts down its 3G network on October 1, 2027. Phones that can’t make calls over LTE (a feature called VoLTE) will lose calling, not just data. The shutdown covers Lüm Mobile too, so if you’re on an old handset, that’s your deadline.

The Saskatchewan-only catch in SaskTel’s terms

SaskTel’s rate plan terms include a clause worth reading before you sign:

On plans that include data, the wireless data portion of your service is intended for use primarily in Saskatchewan.

SaskTel reserves the right to limit or deny its data plans to customers who mostly use data outside the province. Customers with excessive out-of-province use may be asked to move to a plan with overage charges, or have their data service cut off, “at our complete discretion.”

For someone living and working in Saskatchewan, this is a non-issue. For a student who spends eight months of the year in another province, or a worker on rotation in Alberta, it’s a real reason to look at a national carrier instead. Lüm also requires a Saskatchewan address to sign up.

Two cheap carriers you can’t buy here

• Freedom Mobile sells in Alberta, BC, Manitoba and Ontario only, so a national roundup that recommends it isn’t written for Saskatchewan.
• Fizz sells in Alberta, BC, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec only.

That’s the main difference between shopping here and in the neighbouring provinces. Manitoba and Alberta both get Freedom and Fizz. Saskatchewan gets Lüm, which only sells here.

Who each carrier suits

• Public Mobile (Telus network): the pick for most people on price. No contract, no credit check, and 5G on the 50GB plan and up. The trade-off is that it’s self-serve only: no store to walk into and no phone number to call. Support is a community forum and chat.
• Lüm Mobile (SaskTel network): the pick if you want SaskTel’s coverage without SaskTel’s prices. 5G on every membership, and unused data rolls over. The trade-offs: you pay months up front by credit card, voicemail costs extra, and it’s online only too.
• chatr (Rogers) and Lucky Mobile (Bell): both cheap, and both 4G only, with no 5G tier at all. Their headline data amounts include an auto-pay bonus and apply to new activations. Our three-way comparison has the base-versus-bonus split for every tier.
• no name mobile (Loblaws, on Bell’s 4G network): among the cheapest entry prices in the table, and fine if you barely use data.
• Koodo, Fido, Virgin Plus: real stores, device financing and phone support, for roughly $15 to $20 a month more than the value carriers at similar data. Worth it only if you actually need the retail channel.
• Bell, Rogers, Telus: the most expensive way to buy their own networks. See Bell vs Rogers vs Telus for what you’re paying for.
• SaskTel: buy it for in-person stores and dealers, bundle perks and its network. Don’t buy it expecting a local discount. SaskTel’s cheaper prices are at Lüm.

How to pay less in Saskatchewan

1. Bring your own phone. It’s the single biggest saving. On SaskTel’s Basic, Unlimited and VIP plans it’s worth $20/mo, but only when you add a new line, so time it for when you switch.
2. Pay up front with Lüm. Its one-year memberships cost the least per month. You pay for the whole year by credit card when you sign up.
3. If you’re staying with SaskTel, compare Promo with Unlimited. Promo Nationwide 50 is $60/mo^† for 50GB, against $70 for Unlimited Nationwide with your own phone. Both need your own phone on a new line. If 50GB covers you, Promo saves $10 a month. Its data can’t be shared between lines, and Promo isn’t part of the Family Discount.
4. Put the family on one account. On the Unlimited and VIP plans, SaskTel takes $15/mo off for each line you add: $15 with two lines, $30 with three, and $45 or more with four or more.
5. Only look at VIP if you already pay for SaskTel TV and internet. With your own phone, VIP Unlimited Canada & U.S. is $65, which beats Unlimited Nationwide at $70 and adds the U.S. But if you’d be adding TV and internet just to qualify, you’re not saving money.
6. Ask for a better price before you switch. Take a real competing quote to your current carrier first. Our lower-your-bill guide has the script.
7. Switching costs less than it used to. Since June 12, 2026, CRTC rules have banned activation fees, and cancellation fees on plans with no subsidized phone. Some carriers still charge SIM or device fees, so ask before you sign. Details in our fee ban explainer.
8. Check what you actually use. Most people buy more data than they need. Run your habits through the data calculator, then your bill through the overpayment analyzer.

FAQ

Is SaskTel cheaper than the national carriers? Not than the value carriers. SaskTel’s cheapest 50GB plan is $60/mo^† and needs your own phone on a new line, while Public Mobile sells 50GB on 5G for $35/mo. Against the national prices of Bell and Rogers it’s closer: SaskTel’s Promo plan costs less than their 60GB plans, but its standard plans cost more. SaskTel’s online brand, Lüm Mobile, is the one that competes on price.

What is Lüm Mobile? SaskTel’s online-only brand. It runs on SaskTel’s network with 5G on every plan, sells prepaid memberships of one month to a year, and only signs up Saskatchewan residents. The one-year 360GB membership is $360, which works out to about $30 a month.

Is Freedom Mobile available in Saskatchewan? No. Freedom sells in Alberta, BC, Manitoba and Ontario only. Fizz isn’t available either; it sells in those four provinces plus Quebec.

Who owns SaskTel? The Government of Saskatchewan. SaskTel is a Crown corporation that reports through Crown Investments Corporation. In the year ending March 31, 2026, it earned net income of $104.7 million and declared $41.9 million in dividends to Crown Investments Corporation.

Does SaskTel have the best coverage in Saskatchewan? SaskTel’s own figures are strong: LTE for more than 99% of the population and 98% of major roads and highways, and 5G for 94% of the population as of March 31, 2026. Those figures don’t compare SaskTel with other carriers, though, so check each carrier’s coverage map for the places you spend time. If SaskTel’s network is what you want, Lüm Mobile uses the same network for less.

What’s the catch with SaskTel plans if I leave the province a lot? SaskTel’s terms say the data portion of your plan is “intended for use primarily in Saskatchewan,” and SaskTel can move customers who mostly use data elsewhere to a plan with overage charges, or cut off their data. If you spend most of the year outside Saskatchewan, look at a national carrier.

Will my old phone stop working? If it only works on 3G, or can’t make calls over LTE (VoLTE), yes. SaskTel shuts down its 3G network on October 1, 2027, and phones without VoLTE lose calling at that point. That applies on Lüm Mobile too.

What’s the cheapest plan in Regina or Saskatoon? The same as anywhere else in the province, because every plan in this guide is priced the same across Saskatchewan. The cities do get better coverage than rural areas, and SaskTel has started rolling out its faster 5G+ in both.

Prices update from our database and can change without notice. Always confirm on the carrier’s site before signing up.