Rogers Canada iPhone 3G Plans Unveiled
June 27th, 2008Rogers has posted the iPhone specific plans on their website and unlimited data is nowhere to be found. The iPhone plans start at $60 per month which gives you a paltry 150 weekday minutes and 400MB of data and go up to $115 per month for 800 weekday minutes and 2GB of data. We really need some competition for Rogers to drive down rates not only for the data plans, but voice plans as well. A nice bonus however is unlimited access to all Rogers and Fido wireless hotspots (yes, they realize their data rates are ridiculous too).
Fido has not released their iPhone specific plans, but seeing as how they are owned by Rogers, I don’t expect the plans to be all to different. If anything the plans will offer a bit less to move more Fido customers over to the Rogers brand. Remember when Fido introduced the 3G Internet surfing plans that included a whopping 12MB of data?
A $60 per month plan that only offers 150 minutes? I’m willing to guess most iPhone owners will opt for the $75 plan which gives you 300 minutes and a decent 750MB of data usage. That will work out to $2700 for each new iPhone customer that Rogers will get and I’m sure there are a ton of Apple fanboys out there that wont be deterred by the crappy iPhone plans.
Rogers iPhone Price Plans: http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voice_data_packages
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for the amount of data that i use on my BB 8830, switchin back to rogers … i would prob be lookin at the $115 plan plus the $20 essentials……….. nothin compared to what i am payin right now
Fuck Rogers! I knew they wouldn’t offer anything near valuable with the iPhone since they know most dumbasses are just gonna get one anyway but little will they know how little they are actually getting.
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