Comments on: Rogers’ iPhone data plan petition

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:15:54 +0000

Telus is going GSM next year. Then Rogers will finally have some competition in the GSM market. I think we’ll see some action at that point. Right now, they don’t HAVE to do a damn thing because no other carrier is capable.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:43:53 +0000

The only way for it to really work is just don’t buy the iPhone when it comes here. At least BELL seems to listen to what Canaddians want – better plan.

By: lc31c

lc31c — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:13:54 +0000

yeah i blame rogers for providing service to iphone for as low as 30$/month. Because no one bothered to read the fine print. Everyone thinks they gotta pay alot. But rogers said it b4, that we can use current plans and add data or get ANY rogers plan (starting @ 30$/m) and get iphone.

By: David

David — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:00:23 +0000

Even though Fido’s network wasn’t all that great back in the day (pre-Fogers), I really miss their prices..

By: skylowlow

skylowlow — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:28:42 +0000

I’m not buying it, period. No way I’m going to sign for one of these plans for 3 years… Rogers failed again.

By: DavidV

DavidV — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:28:58 +0000

A consumer hoping for better pricing on a consumer offering?…nothing revolutionary there. What’s new & troubling is the redefinition of the term “monopoly” to fit trivial personal preferences and desires. Individuals don’t have a “right” to a given handset (& a srvc plan that they think is “fair”). There are options – ignore iphone, get over it

By: Paul from HK

Paul from HK — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:57:22 +0000

you guys are all getting shafted you know? Ya, you folks in ths US too. We get unlimited voice, data (7.2 Mbps HSDPA), SMS, MMS… you name it, all for about US$20 per month. You guys are so behind.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:45:15 +0000

This is just plain stupid. they should lower the rates and give unlimited data plans!

By: pheer6224

pheer6224 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:30:14 +0000

Allright. Now you can ALL just be quiet about apple’s greediness. They’re an electronics giant, and by nature, they’re evil. Teach them a lesson and get a used treo or something.

By: fanboisRus

fanboisRus — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:10:35 +0000

Hey another thought:
Lets continue to bash companies like Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile.. and all the phones that exist, (they don’t compare to What is an iPhone perfection). Then one day, in our perfect world, the iPhone will become cheaper and companies like ATT and Rogers will charge less.
No really.

By: fanboisRus

fanboisRus — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:04:51 +0000

Hey,
What does price matter when you get to carry an iPhone? I think one should be experiencing an eternal bliss with one in their pocket.

On a serious note: I’ve put my name on a petition, but I doubt it will help you guys in Canada A ? Seeing as you practically told the carrier that you will do anything to get this thing. You know its like gas prices – demand / supply, people with too much money …

By: mike

mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:08:05 +0000

I have an unlocked 1.0 iPhone. I pay more than $120 now for 1gb and lots of minutes. The $115 plan is fine especially if I can start using visual voicemail. Just not sure how I’ll break it to rogers that I’m not signing a plan since I paid the full (non-subsidized) amount on ebay. I love this phone gsm or not and will never return to the blackberry.
So if someone can just go ahead and unlock 2.0 I’ll activate exchange and continue on happily.
Now on to more serious business where is the Kindle for Canada?

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:34:03 +0000

exacly mony talks lack of mony speaks voulmes

By: sublicon

sublicon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:38:13 +0000

Somehow, I think 11,000 canceled accounts would say a lot more than 11,000 names on a piece of paper.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:59:58 +0000

Ok well all i have to say is if the iPhone gets unlimited data so should the BlackBerry!

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:29:21 +0000

yep boycottt is alot mor effective then a ptition

By: guerro

guerro — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:02:11 +0000

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

By: Jdslim

Jdslim — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:47:37 +0000

Yeah maybe a boycot is in order. I don’t think complaining about the price will do anything. It’s basic suply and demand and the prices arent going to change unless we lower the demand. To many people are willing to spend their money on this new phone and roger knows it.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:17:46 +0000

Don’t buy the iPhone period. The data pricing in Canada is BS, the fact that AT&T is not including a text plan in their already overpriced iPhone 3G plan is BS. Plus MUST activate in store. This second coming is gouging everyone. Skip it. DON’T BUY IT. Thats the only way it will teach the carriers.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:20:26 +0000

you realize outside the USA nobody gives a damn about apple

By: H.N.I.C.

H.N.I.C. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:11:12 +0000

YO, Their price/srevice plan is capital FUCKED UP!
Apple must realize that this will screw up the IPhones rep in Canada.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:17:46 +0000

boycott nuff said an yeah the canadian .gov isn’t too keen on spotting monopolism

By: chris

chris — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:03:01 +0000

I signed it, I didn’t know how good my sidekick plan was until I saw this. $20 for unlimited texting, picture, and web is something I better be gratefull for because that compared to Rogers is nothing.

By: The Outside

The Outside — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:19:43 +0000

@argonnj
i doubt it. verizon and at&t might eat everybody but deutche telekom will NOT give up on t mobile usa. they may not be the biggest or most advanced phone company but tmobile usa is a huge cash cow for deutche telekom. HUGE

By: gadgetchic

gadgetchic — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:07:16 +0000

wow im really sorry guys, that sucks

By: keymaker

keymaker — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:33:42 +0000

I feel sorry for canadians, after looking at their calling plans, i have to say they are being abuse, i can’t believe they’re being charge for callers ID, what kind of bullshiet is that, i can’t even think of a 3rd world country that permits this, Europeans are getting the best out of the iphone i have to say, they’re getting more minutes than us in the US more SMS text, cheaper plans & on top of that incoming calls don’t count towards your minutes, iphone will be King in europe no doubt, almost forgot some providers are even giving them out for free there when it gets release

By: ppcmd

ppcmd — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:12:06 +0000

When has an online petition of this type actually worked, I cannot recall one that has. Still the only way to force Rogers to take heed is to NOT buy the iPhone. Then maybe his Jobness will put the smack down on Rogers for screwing the pooch.

Seriously what is with the 3 Year contract crap. the longest any contract should be is 1 YEAR, PERIOD. Just charge more phone upfront or be like the EU countries and pay for the phone and get NO contract.

By: Joseph Singer

Joseph Singer — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:51:27 +0000

English is not your native language is it?

By: Gus

Gus — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:51:13 +0000

I’ve signed it, though I don’t think it will do any good. The only way for it to really work is just don’t buy the iPhone when it comes here. This will have to get them to think twice about any plan they have.
I know it’s a dream, but hell we’ve waited for a year for the phone already.

By: argonnj

argonnj — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:43:26 +0000

News flash people, this is a preview of things to come in the US. As smaller companies go out of business or are gobbled up by AT&T and Verizon, prices will start to rise as customers will have no where else to go. Verizon is almost as bad as Rogers and that’s with competition.