Comments on: Rogers / Fido no-contract iPhone 3G S pricing revealed, eh

By: Anthony Baird

Anthony Baird — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:17:13 +0000

On top of this they have bad upgrade policies. When you sign a contract your locked in. So, you can’t upgrade at anytime eg. 3G to 3GS without the same buying full iphone!

The FIdo network doesn’t support a Long distance Canada Long Distance and Fido-to-Fido phone calls on same a phone plan (stupid Bell is more flexible , but I dumped them because of there douche customer service)… Maybe Telus?

http://gorillaproductions.squarespace.com/blog/2009/10/18/fido-doesnt-want-me-as-a-customer-or-no-iphone-contract-for.html

By: Gautam Rao

Gautam Rao — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:39:09 +0000

OK guys … here is how you can get an iphone 3G S 16GB for $300.
First make sure you have been a loyal customer with a decent amount of revenue so that you can get the iPhone 3G S for $199.
Now you have an iPhone 3G S for $199 … and monthly $30 payments for 6GB data. Dont want the data?
Go ahead and cancel the data after 1 month … NOT your talking plan.
Data Cancellation charges: $5 per mo. to a max of $100.
Voice Plan Cancellation: up to $400.

So you will be left with an iPhone 3G S 16GB for $199 + $100 and your old Talk plan locked on for 3 years. Make sure you disable 3G network though!

By: tracy

tracy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:21:40 +0000

hi I was wondering you said about the U.K. having better deals on sim cards and iPhones is it easy to purchase an iPhone through the U.K.
Thanks ahead for your time,

By: kp

kp — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:37:28 +0000

As Fido and Rogers are Canadian cellphone companies, the prices are listed in the Canadian Dollar.

By: Bryan Leitao

Bryan Leitao — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:46:50 +0000

this is a reply to cogito, if you get a 3 year plan and you lose or break the phone, your gunna have to pay around 700 dollars, if you get the no contract, if you lose or break it you dont pay that because you already did, its like you can do whatever you want with it get minutes whenever you want no friggin plan thats 60 dollars a month, its like paying the phone every month!!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:58:32 +0000

Okay, so it seems to me to make more sense to purchase the (inflated) price. For me, with Fido, it is $400 to cancel contract (9 months into my 3 year contract now with a cheap crap phone), then $299 for the phone = $699. For $100 more I get the phone without an extra year on my contract and can still keep my $17.95/month 250min. voice plan with Fido.

I get tired of phones quickly and will likely want a new one anyway. This way, I’m just two years away from another new phone!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:10:58 +0000

ROGERS or Bell are the biggest ripoff in the WORLD!!!!

3 YEARS plans and YOUR VOICE PLAN MUST BE over $33 dollars for you to get the 199 or 299 price even if you are eligible. they have the highest and most expensive plan rates on the planet and they treat the costumer like crap. they make rules when ever they want and keep adding prices when ever they want. its just so ridicules that there is not much options in Canada they charge customers fees that can not be explained System access fee and so many other little charges here and there. guys we have to do something about it. their rules are getting painfully ridicules day by day and we are accepting it, LETS DO SOMETHING PLEASE

By: mech

mech — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:49:09 +0000

hey, Fido & Rogers took down the info where they said they would offer a no-contract iPhone. My guess is that they were just fucking with us and teasing us for wanting one. anyway, any updates from other sources about this? I’m pretty sure the info from a keithmcarthur was available a few days ago…

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:55:35 +0000

i was just wondering if anyone knew if they were selling iphone 3gs with no contract yet….

By: cogito

cogito — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:49:15 +0000

I just talked to a Fido AND Rogers’ representative each today. They both claim that there is NO retail pricing at this moment for iphone 3G S. Sometimes I wonder whether they are slow in terms of information or they are just simply USELESS…

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:57:55 +0000

I had an iphone 3g like 3 months after it came out, i had it stolen, so i had to cancel my plan. They make you pay 4 months + 400 + the iphone so its around about $1100.

By: pleiades

pleiades — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:39:59 +0000

Tell me plz! Is this CAD or US dollar?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:11:47 +0000

At these prices anyone who recently purchased a 3G and is upgrading to the 3GS is either A) Very wealthy or B) Under the impression that Apple has been turned into a charity because you are essentially donating money to them for no reason

By: keegan

keegan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:51:46 +0000

at least canada’s economy isnt as far in the trash as your red white and HURRRTIN garbage you call home, hockey is way fresher than your baby sport, we shred ice lay bitches out and look more bad ass than your pussified ouch i got hit with a pussified baseball walk a base boaring as fuck bottom of the ninth or should i say bottom of the MLB SUCKS a dick no homo! the only thing you got going for you is a black prez
other than that get fucked bitchezzz

By: Hainesy

Hainesy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:25:54 +0000

@Kevin: “Lets get them back, once tethering is enabled, everyone should connect and max out our 6 gig plans and take down the network!!!”

Right, because that will cause Rogers to drop their pricing. Aside from interupting our service, all that taking down the network will do is increase our future pricing when Rogers needs to spend money to upgrade.

The best protest is (sadly) not to buy it. Or wait until Bell and Telus go GSM and prices drop like the underwear of a drunk girl on prom night.

By: manswer

manswer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:32:42 +0000

he question is not who would want to buy an iPhone at this price, the question is who would want to live in Canada at any price!?!?

Answer- people who don’t like getting BOMBED asshole

By: Cdiz

Cdiz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:00:56 +0000

Let’s see….

Cancellation fee: $400 (month to month data)
New 3y iPhone under my gf’s name: $199
Activation Fee: $35
Total Price: $634
Retail Price: $699

WTF?!?

By: Dogg

Dogg — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:43:50 +0000

NUTS is what iphone fanboys are! SOOO expensive for the features you’re FINALLY getting (my 3 year old phone cost $350 without a plan and has nearly every feature this new iphone has – including cut and paste).

By: Doug Mackenzie

Doug Mackenzie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:36:49 +0000

@ Hoser
The only downside to living in Canada is the neighboors.

By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:09:24 +0000

works for me $700 is what i usually spend on a phone anyways. how much more is this going to cost me to get this phone actually unlocked thats the damn question.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:28:02 +0000

Do you even know where Canada is?

By: Hai

Hai — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:07:42 +0000

799 is not bad really.. seing that I have the Iphone 3GS, i would just sell it (unlocked and jailbreaked) for around 500… so I’m relly only paying 300 for it…
its 200 on a 3 year contract so for me this is a great deal!

By: Bob Hoser

Bob Hoser — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:58:49 +0000

The question is not who would want to buy an iPhone at this price, the question is who would want to live in Canada at any price!?!?

By: Char

Char — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:11:20 +0000

This is AMAZING pricing when you think about it a bold is 699. With no contract. It is about same price to cancel. 179 for 16gb plus 500 cancellation fee. Remember 100 for cancelling data. Or 400 but the price of the phone will be higher I believe 230 if your price plan is 35 or lower. Ahhh all the rules I have to learn. Anyways, we were speculating in our store the price would be over a grand. So this is a big shock. Don’t expect it to be lower…. Higher maybe.

By: David Thande

David Thande — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:09:43 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen! We are the Consumer! We have the Power!!!

If you don’t buy it!
They lower the price, a cell phone has the worst resale value……

And to me this doesn’t kick enough bang for the buck besides competing with 8th graders at a local middle School!

Come on together we are strong! Fight the Man!

By: cogito

cogito — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:21:20 +0000

I just talked to Rogers rep today.

Turns out If you want to Cancel your rogers plan and get a new plan…

The penalty will be the following:

1. $400 for the voice plan
2. $100 for the data plan (if you have a blackberry or an iphone)
3. 1 month cancellation fee….

Basically, you are looking at about $650 after tax just to cancel the plan…. SOB!

By: David Thande

David Thande — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:45:09 +0000

Apple has its Cash Cow! Go on buy buy!

By: AJC

AJC — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:43:34 +0000

Best Buy out-right prices are a joke. Always inflated by at least $200, wasn’t the Pre here in the US like $799 out-right? ….yeah, about that.

By: random dude

random dude — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:36:09 +0000

These prices aren’t too different from the other iphone no contract prices.

By: matthew

matthew — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:34:58 +0000

fido early cancel is 400 it went up