Crack open a Molson, Canada! A picture is worth a thousand words so I won’t bore you with the details. However, all you “north of the border” types better start lining up for your iPhone 3G. With these kind of data plans – which are actually quite reasonable – you now have a reason to throw away those old boring phones you’ve been using all these years in anticipation of this one shining opportunity.
Thanks, Simon
Reasonable? I get unlimited data for 15$ on my HTC Touch!
but this is in canadian dollars which are worth 10 american cents.
Good point, and with the Bush Peso worth 0.0001 Euro this means it is practically free.
see! now you’re thinking!
In reality, if you choose to live there, the Canadian dollar has been near or at par with the USD for several months now. But hey, it’s more fun to just ignore facts, right? :)
With caller id, voicemail, system access fee and tax it comes to $95 per month on 3 YEAR contract with 400 MB of data ahah!
This is what you call reasonable? LoL
I’m waiting to hear back from my rep on the corporate Canadian plans will be.
Hopefully it will suck less.
Reasonable? Are you crazy? Rogers is the only GSM provider in Canada (Fido is owned by Rogers) and had the opportunity to destroy the cell phone competition in Canada by offering a cheap rate.
Rogers is the worst cell phone company in Canada by far (ask anyone who has ever called Rogers support…even sales) but this could have been the single event that would help them out.
Everyone involved in the decision making process at Rogers should be fired outright…and I’m a little surprised that Crunchgear thinks that these prices are normal. Remember that the Canadian Dollar is on Par with the American Dollar…
$115/month CDN = $115/month USD
grrrrrr.
We have Tim Hortons, Hockey and an excellent health care system. I can live without an unlimited data plan for my iPhone until the third generation iPhone comes out (next year?). :)
An outsiders point of view.
In South Africa we pay a fraction of this price. In fact, we paid fraction of this price several years ago. I can’t help but smile about all this iPhone hype. Granted, it’s a good phone, but your networks disallow any growth.
Fact: This is not reasonable or “normal”, unless normal means being ripped off. I’ve been visiting Canada for a while now find all mobile networks to be shockingly expensive. I’m surprised Canadians put up with this. Where are your corporate/competition regulators? And what’s up with all these non-GSM networks? That makes no sense whatsoever…
Curious indeed.
J
PS: And to those fools who think they do without mobile data, send a snail mail letter to your parents to tell them they raised an idiot. How many people thought they could live without a mobile phone when they became available? Same with data; it makes a whole lot of sense…but only once you have it.
Guys Canadian Dollars and US Dollars have been almost equal for years now. John Biggs the Canadian dollar WAS NEVER 10% of US, it was 10% higher or less but not of USD. Just so you know, Canada is proportionally wealthier than US and more civilized, less crime rate, so when you should compare to Mexico and pesos you would be 100% right. Especially when it comes to Cell Phone companies and monopolies. Rogers and Bell are still in stone ages, they should not monopolize the telecom industry that badly. Look at the deals above. NONE of them are unlimited data nor voice. they only offer unlimited evenings starting 9:00pm to 7:00 am basically when people are sleeping or impolite to call. Let’s put it this way, Regardless of iPhone or BlackBerry Rogers or Bell will get you badly.. My last month ONE BlackBerry data and phone bill with Rogers came up to be a bit over $1600. NO KIDDING. Try to live in Canada in the cold, high tax, high bank fees and HIGH CELL PHONE fees.
Rogers and Bell must be regulated ASAP, one of the worst companies on earth. They should go to Mexico to compete with Carlos Slim Helu, another unfair monopolizer, he will eat them alive. But you see, he is in Mexico, not in a civilized country so it’s little bit more acceptable. But doing that in Canada is shameful.