Comments on: Canadian data pricing strikes again

By: Sportyboard

Sportyboard — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:30:26 +0000

I'm a little bit confused as what qualifies as “data”. Is regular web browsing considered data transfer?

By: Sportyboard

Sportyboard — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:30:26 +0000

I'm a little bit confused as what qualifies as “data”. Is regular web browsing considered data transfer?

By: Michael Glenn

Michael Glenn — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:55:10 +0000

I was accidentally put on the wrong plan when signing up with one of Roger's new HSPA Data devices. Fortunately Roger's loss prevention contacted me when I had managed to rack up $4,000 in charges within the first two days. They corrected it right away which was great but it's chilling the differences in rates depending on the data plan you might be on.

By: frankyB

frankyB — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:57:46 +0000

Most unlimited data plan are not "unlimited", it's unlimited email or browsing but not unlimited "everything". Sales peoples are not informing customers properly (some of them don't even know the difference). And some use their phone as modem for their computer or download movies (yes some are doing it) and that's when they start having problems as it is not seen as browsing or email download anymore, even if this is what they are doing.

I know the difference, but most people don't and Wireless Carriers are doing a poor job to inform their customers.

Unlimited email and browsing is not a bad plan, as long as you clearly explain to the customer he can ONLY do that.

I feel sorry for those people, but at the same time they should have been more careful.

By: May C

May C — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:41:09 +0000

All the more reason I'm praying that there will be some new entrants in the industry. Robbers is so bad being the main national GSM carrier that I'm forced to stick with them. Had CDMA carriers not forced us in only using their phones, I probably would have switched. Bring us another national GSM carrier, please!

By: Darrell Wright

Darrell Wright — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:06:49 +0000

Just remember, deregulation is consumer friendly and there is no price gouging in the cellular industry.

Also, if you haven't noticed; Rogers just upped the rate per text message to the US from 15c/msg to 25c/msg whether you had a plan or not. That's a whopping $1638/MB assume 8bits per character.

By: roland

roland — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:22:41 +0000

amen to “Our wireless industry is a heck of a tax on growing a business in Canada.” !!!!