Comments on: Rogers announces iPhone plans

By: DeMare

DeMare — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:01:07 +0000

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.

By: OddyOh

OddyOh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:24:28 +0000

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? :)

By: Jakes

Jakes — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:15:49 +0000

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.

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.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:17:38 +0000

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?). :)

By: Canadian

Canadian — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:05:08 +0000

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.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:14:05 +0000

see! now you’re thinking!

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:03:14 +0000

I’m waiting to hear back from my rep on the corporate Canadian plans will be.

Hopefully it will suck less.

By: osman

osman — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:13:20 +0000

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

By: Yannick Desjardins

Yannick Desjardins — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:42:32 +0000

Good point, and with the Bush Peso worth 0.0001 Euro this means it is practically free.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:39:24 +0000

but this is in canadian dollars which are worth 10 american cents.

By: Yannick Desjardins

Yannick Desjardins — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:37:31 +0000

Reasonable? I get unlimited data for 15$ on my HTC Touch!