Ok, Canadians, here’s the official skinny on all that is Rogers/Fido’s iPhone 3G S
Over the past few weeks we at BGR have been pestering the folks at Rogers and Fido for information on their iPhone 3G S pricing and policies. Well guess what — they’ve just given us the goods. Hit the jump, because we’re pretty damn sure that you’ll like what you see.
There has been a lot of excitement around the new iPhone 3G S and we wanted to recognize the early adopters who helped make the iPhone the hottest-selling handset in Canadian wireless history. We will be discounting the price of the iPhone 3G S by between $250 and $500 to provide savings to many of our iPhone customers.
What this means is that eligible iPhone owners can acquire the iPhone 16GB 3G S for as low as $199 or the 32GB for as low as $299 until July 31, 2009.
For Fido customers, we’re offering the Fido Rewards iPhone 3G S promotion. This enables iPhone customers to redeem FidoDollars towards a new iPhone 3G S with an additional $100 top-up from Fido.
For customers who don’t qualify for these extra savings, we are pleased to offer Rogers Wireless customers the iPhone at our cost on rogers.com. This cost – $580 for the iPhone 3G, $680 for the iPhone 3G S 16GB and $780 for the iPhone 3G S 32GB – represents the price we pay for the device plus a nominal fee for the SIM card. Customers can access these devices at retail locations for just $19 more for the three devices.
We’re also happy to announce that Rogers and Fido are extending the 6GB/$30 data promotion until July 31. This offer is valid for customers on a new or existing iPhone plan or customers buying an Android-powered HTC Magic or HTC Dream.
Five ways to save
1) For Rogers Wireless customers who bought an iPhone 3G between July 11 and Sept. 30, 2008, and with an average monthly spend of at least $100, Rogers will provide $500 off the cost of an iPhone 3G S. This special offer expires July 31, 2009 and comes with the addition of a one-year term to the customer’s existing service agreement.
· 16GB 3GS $199
· 32GB 3GS $2992) For Rogers Wireless customers who bought an iPhone between July 11 and Dec. 31, 2008, but aren’t eligible for the above offer, Rogers will provide $250 dollars off the purchase of an iPhone 3G S. This special offer expires July 31, 2009 and comes with the addition of a one-year term to the customer’s existing service agreement.
· 16GB 3GS $449
· 32GB 3GS $5493) All Rogers Wireless customers can upgrade to the iPhone 3GS at our cost at Rogers.com, or for a suggested retail price of just $19 more than our cost through our retail channels.
· 8GB 3G $580/$599
· 16GB 3GS $680/$699
· 32GB 3GS $780/$7994) Fido customers can take advantage of the Fido Rewards iPhone 3G S promotion:
· Use FidoDollars towards the purchase of a new iPhone 3G S
· Fido will top up the FidoDollars amount by $100
· This promotion does not include an extension or renewal of their service agreement.5) New and existing iPhone customers can take advantage of a limited-time promotion of 6GB of data for $30, now extended until July 31. Other Rogers and Fido data plans will remain the same, including the only national standalone data plan at $25 per month for 500 MB. We know that this is the right plan for most Canadians – 93 per cent of current iPhone customers on a data plan use less than 500 MB of data per month.
@StevenGlansburg:
Thats hundred canadian dude. That about 88 american as of today. And 63 eruo.
I pay the same and it’s way too expensive compared to ya’ll folks down below.
How do you guys pay 100 a month? I mean does a nice 35 dollar plan and the 30 gig not cover it for ya? Do you guys run businesses or are business men? Cause that is like 81 and odd cents after tax. Maybe alter those plans.
Sucks that Fido doesn’t have the same promo that Rogers has. Why the hell does Fido not have this. I am very disappointed because I pay $100 a month and if Fido had the same promo as Rogers I woulda been in line today….
so this means that a new customer can get an iPhone 3GS for $699 canadian? off contract?
ya 680 online is such a deal especially since they threw in the sim. Like we don’t already have one or 3 laying around. oh gotta go travel around and pretend I’m a Canadian so people will like me. oh wait I AM CANADIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!the freedom of traveling with out fear of being hated everywhere i go. PRICELESS
where’s the part where I’m going to like what i see?
How about Tethering with Rogers or Fido, last I heard was allowed until the end of this year Dec-09. What is going to happen after that…!?
All the info is correct. I just got an email this morning about it.
Can someone please post a link to this new offer on the Rogers website please ??? The local reps claim the offer doesn’t exist.
Here is the link to Rogers FAQ with these same price plan details. Store reps don’t always get things right
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_faqs
To everyone saying these plans don’t suck: You’re right, the 6GB/$30 plan is actually pretty good. The problem is that Rogers/Fido are only offering this during a “promo period” that ends July 31, and it’s only being offered to iPhone and Android users. Everybody with a different phone, as well as anyone who can’t buy an iPhone until, say, August for whatever reason, gets stuck with plans that range from 500MB/$25 to 5GB/$80. And to get this 6GB plan, you have to sign a 3 YEAR CONTRACT. So again, Americans, tell us how bad AT&T is compared to this bullshit, because I think you guys have it pretty good down there, at least as far as wireless companies go.
I just called Rogers and see whether I am eligible for an update for the iphone 3Gs, turns out even though I have an Blackberry for the past 10 months with Rogers and I spend over 100+ every month, I am not able to get the iphone 3G S at a discount price of 299… not even at 549… I will have to pay 780 for the iphone.
Boy I am pissed. The customer services rep is completely useless…
I don’t understand why these offers only available to customers who has iphone 3G to begin with?
They are leaving people who has blackberry (like me) out and pissed at them.
THANK YOU BOY GENIUS.
I absolutely love this website. Unfortunately, the same can not be said about Rogers.
All this information is correct, i work for the call centre at rogers exclusively for the wireless department.
Also the 6gb for 30$ is available to Blackberry bold customers until July 31st
forget the iphone, i’m waiting for the blackberry onyx!
Ok, I am a Rogers customer with iPhone 3G with my cell phone bill WELL OVER $100 per month and I activated last year between July 11 and September, 2008 so according to what’s on their website I should qualify to upgrade for $199 to the 3G-S.
However…today I
1) Went to a Wireless Wave store who could sell me a phone but could not even select any hardware upgrade for me. They claimed they use the same system as Rogers so they didn’t know what is going on.
2) At the 1st Rogers Wireless store there was over 1 hour wait to get someone on the phone for a hardware upgrade, so we ended up leaving, and
3) Going to the second Rogers Wireless store, they were sold out of all 3G-S black models, and only had 3 white ones left, but again it is over 1 hour wait to get a Rogers rep. on the phone to complete the hardware upgrade
then…
4) went back to work, called Rogers on the phone (and after waiting 30 minutes) talked to a guy who said “Well, actually no, you don’t qualify for the $199 pricing because your ACTUAL WIRELESS PLAN itself must be over $100 per month. Even though my last bill was $137 and my bill before that was $173 and every bill since last summer was over $100, it turns out that their “offer #2″ does not include any long distance charges or extra charges for text messages. The actual “plan” you are on must be over $100 per month for you to qualify.”. Which really sucks because on their website it just says if your “Wireless Bill” is over $100 then you qualify.
But, you get a different answer from everyone you talk to and the reps. in the Rogers stores did not know about this special upgrade pricing. They said “thats not what we were told”…
Anyway, lots of chaos and confusion everywhere and line ups so I’m just going to wait.
But it looks like sales are VERY strong.
Ravnos –when you make comments that you hope that a plane goes down and people die — maybe you should think about what exactly you are saying before you hit the send button — it kind of makes the rest of what you say seem pretty full of *%$!
K. Young – I hope the plane lands on you when it crashes.
Ha Ha! Vicious, but funny!
I’m with Rogers and wanted to speak to some of the comments left here.
First, I want to make it clear that the reason 93% of our customers use less than 500MB of data isn’t that they’re scared of getting charged overage fees on a 500MB plan. In fact, 90% of customers on a 6GB plan use less than 500MB a month.
Second, we recognize that the Rogers and Fido upgrade offers are very different. But each has its own advantages. For example, Fido customers don’t have to extend their contract for a year. And the Fido offer applies to all iPhone customers no matter when they bought their phone, so customers who bought their devices in 2009 are considerably better off than they would be with the Rogers plan.
Third, I want to apologize to Darren. What you were told today is not correct. The $100 threshold applies to your overall pre-tax wireless bill over the last 9 to 12 months. Darren – if you have any further trouble, please reach out to us on Twitter at @RogersHelps and we’ll try to make things right.
Just got my iPhone 3gs today. I like it, its much snapier than the 3g for sure. And I do find many of the store reps are cluless. I actually much more than the rep. Everytime I went there I gave him info that he had no idea but he would ask his manager and the manager is like that right. I got an ok deal I guess
@Keith: It doesn’t matter if those customers use less than the 6GB they’re paying for, $25 for 500MB is highway robbery no matter how you slice it. Rogers’ data rates are way out of line with every first world nation by a LONG ways. Even in Australia, where the population density is similar and most of their population is clustered in coastal cities similar to how ours are clustered near the US border, the companies there don’t gouge like this. The 6GB plan is a pretty good value for the money in any market, but the fact that it’s just a promotion, requires a 3 year contract (also unprecedented in other first world wireless markets!), and is tied to a single handset all speak to Rogers’ insatiable greed and relentless price gouging. Knock down the price of your 3GB and 5GB data packages and maybe you can talk about how good a value your data plans are, because right now, they’re a god damned rip-off.
Just talked to Fido customer service, apparently I can renew my contract at the earliest 6 months before the current contract expires, but have to pay the full price of the phone. I asked what’s the point of renewing early when I have to pay the full price? She said that’s because I’m on the “special” price plan that doesn’t have the system access fee. I said when I signed up all the plans do not have this SAF fee so what’s special about my plan. She chose not to answer but encourage me to add another line just to get the phone at the discounted price. Now why would I do that when I’ve been treated like a case of charity with the “special” plan.
When my time is up I’m a goner. Such an ungrateful company.
I run a business and pay $311 per month for my base plan, which works out to anywhere from $350 to $600 per month for my Blackberry. So over the past 14 months with Rogers I’ve given them roughly $5800. They silently changed the upgrade policy in March to 2 years so I am not eligible for any discounted price until next February and it really pisses me off. Why would they alienate their biggest customers like this? I have clearly paid more than enough to cover their subsidy spread and this just feels underhanded and plain mean!