Comments on: Rogers iPhone pricing released (for real this time)

By: Mark Kuznicki

Mark Kuznicki — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:09:41 +0000

Oh, and you should add this little gem from the fine-print: early termination of the contract will trigger a cancellation fee of MINIMUM of $1,100!! Unbelievable, but true: http://www.rogers.com/cms/html/iphone_vpterms.s.... Theoretically, you would have to pay almost $8,000 if you had to cancel right after you bought it…more than the total value of the contract!!

By: Yule Heibel

Yule Heibel — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:52:03 +0000

I just tried surfing over to http://www.ruinediphone.com/ (which I had no trouble accessing earlier), and got a 403 Forbidden message. What happened? Was it hacked?, did Rogers shut it down?, or is it a temporary glitch because several million Canadians are flooding the site, trying to sign the anti-rogers petition? Even the pages still in my browser history return 403 Forbidden...

:-/

By: Mark Kuznicki

Mark Kuznicki — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:09:41 +0000

By: Yule Heibel

Yule Heibel — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:52:03 +0000

By: Mark Kuznicki

Mark Kuznicki — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:33:40 +0000

I, like many, was super-eager for the official iPhone release in Canada and willing to break my Telus contract to get it right away. No longer - I'm keeping my Telus/Razr/iPod Touch/wifi combo until I see a plan for iPhone that isn't designed to play gotcha with overage fees.

I note that http://ruinediphone.com/ already has over 18,000 signatures (and a new and less offensive domain), so I guess I'm not alone. I don't expect Rogers will do anything in response, but the level of customer frustration appears to be a story in and of itself, which might provide some additional insight into the zeitgeist of the Canadian wireless marketplace. I hope to see a story about the budding consumer backlash on WirelessNorth soon! :)

By: Mike M

Mike M — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:07:25 +0000

I was wondering about using the Rogers Portable Internet with an iPhone. As long as you are in range of the box – you could power it in your car with a small inverter – you would have a hot spot that followed you wherever you go, give 30 Gig data for $50/month and also be useful for a computer as well. The bonus is it might get Rogers to break its bad habits of charging too much for data plans. If they are selling personal TV plans they must have lots of data to sell. They just want to charge more for some data.

By: netrokid

netrokid — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:53:11 +0000

What can we do to put pressure on our Govt' to start either regulating the prices, or allowing US providers to enter our market? Although I do recognize the fact that at least Rogers creates jobs, I think it is utterly ridiculous that they can control the GSM mobile market in such a monopolistic manner. If they were regulated by any kind of quality control for their customer service, they would most likely go out of business. They offer preferential pricing and service to certain customers (I know this because I've managed to get certain packages by spending over 6 hours on the phone with them). Isn't that illegal?

What also really gets to me is that I don't see how Canada's youth will be able to play with new technology due to the price barriers. How do we expect the next generation of entrepreneurs to innovate if they can't access the technology?

If anyone has any ideas on what can be done to put pressure, please advise. Perhaps WirelessNorth could post some sort of form letter that would be sent to the proper members of Govt or CRTC? (Sorry to lay this on you guys- but you're so good at this :))

By: Left_Wing_Fox

Left_Wing_Fox — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:46:05 +0000

Yeah, I've been incredibly eager for an iPhone. AT&T's pricing is reasonable for me. Rogers is absolutely unacceptable.

I rarely use my phone. I have no land-line, and a pay as you go plan from Aliant, and I still pay about than $10/month on average to use that phone. The iPhone would replace many of the devices I currently carry on a trip (phone, iPod, Camera, portable games/books) and duplicates almost all the use I get out of my laptop.

There is no way I'd use 800 minutes of voice phone, and I'd go over 2GB in a heartbeat. I'm better off getting an iPod Touch, and using that at Wi-Fi hotspots instead.

By: iPhone won’t be myPhone « modernlaundry

iPhone won’t be myPhone « modernlaundry — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:04:09 +0000

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By: tj

tj — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:36:37 +0000

Rogers Hotspot abit of a joke for British Columbians, there's 7 locations in all mostly Second Cup coffee shops and only three of those are in the lower mainland, none in the city where I live which is Surrey. By comparison Telus and Bell have dozens of more spots.