Rogers announces iPhone 3G data plans

Hey, Americans! I bet that you could get a far better price selling that used first-generation iPhone up here in Canada rather than back home. After all, those jailbroken first-gens are going to be way more in demand up here when people realize that the exorbitant data charges and forced 3-year contract are simply not worth the few extra features that you get for the 3G model.

Personally, I’m favouring that sweet E71 BGR demoed a few weeks ago and sticking with wifi-only until I can jump ship when bell/telus makes the switch to GSM.

Wow what a vortex of suck! once again we in Canada get boned by Robbers.

I love GSM, but wish we had another provider. Meanwhile I’ll drown my sorrows, and enjoy my N95-3 until I can get my mits on a E71.

Damn at&t is crazy, arent there like 40% taxes on these plans to bc of your national health care?

You need to understand where Rogers is coming from here..

For every $199.00 that you give to Rogers for your iPhone, they have to PAY Apple $349.99.

This follows Apple’s international syndicate contract with all carriers except AT&T, T-Mobile and Orange.

While the rates are very steep, this is litterally Rogers’ only option – either make the data plans very expensive, or don’t release the iPhone at all.

Fortunately I’m used to having a bill thats around $120 per month so this isn’t a HUGE deal to me but I’m still not happy..

I had an unlocked iPhone on Rogers (used a 25mb plan – in october 2007) and I could barely use any features because I was too scared to go over. I wonder if 1 or 2GB is enough?

They should have at least had an unlimited plan for $150 or $200. That’s insanely expensive I know, but the option should still be there.

To all of you Rogers bashers, say all you want but your (and my) complaints and disbelief WILL go unheard – they will not stunt Rogers’ profit. People WILL buy the iPhone and they WILL pay these prices.

Rogers has no reason at all to lower the prices. What’s that? You’ll switch carriers? Fine, they don’t really care!

Bottom line: just pay the price.

P-R-O-H-I-B-I-T-I-V-E

That’S all I have to say !

@BGR

One correction, the minutes in the plan(s) are not anytime minutes, They are Weekday minutes. This means if you go over xx minutes from monday to friday 9:00am to 9:00pm you get charged an additional fee ( no idea what that is ) For that matter there is no information about extra data charges for going over either.

Given that the balckberry plans are 55/month for voice and data (300 megs) I think it’s a much better deal. Since RIM compresses the data before sending. For text (read email) it’s apparently a 7:1 ratio on average.

It will all come down to how good the Bold Browser is for me.

If the idea behind this plan was to make it affordable to the average Canadian, they failed. Very few people have $100/month (once you add in system access fees…etc) to spend on a phone. I think there will be a bigger market in canada for unlocked phones where someone can use their SIM from an existing phone and not use the data ( except wireless )

Heck, for 30/month why don’t we all just get DSL services (FROM ANYBODY EXECPT ROGERS) and open up our routers as free hot spots ? We can even adopt a naming convention for the SSID “FU_Rogers”

Any takers ?

Holy shit their phones better come with concubines if the plans are that level of rape.

I always find it funny when people are surprised by high Canadian cell phone prices, esp compared to the US. I’m with rogers, I like the service just fine, even if it is a little pricey, but what can they do? They’re a business, they want to make money, and they have have to cover MORE area then any US carrier, but with 1/10 the potential customer base. I’m surprised the Iphone is releasing as cheap as it is along with these new plans. Hopefully i can scoop up a cheapish new data plan for my ipaq when the changes take place all across the board

Just stop talking I-Phone please.
In Canada, Telus gave me a 50$ HTC Touch 200 minutes, unlimited incoming call + UNLIMITED DATA for 45$/m !!!!
Much better phone + much cheaper.
With EVDO, I get 400kb/s and my browsing is limited by the CPU not the DL rate.
And yes, I’m enjoying my 3 years contract.

i was really looking forward to the iphone and still really want one, but im not going to pay for these blowjobs to take my money. if they came out with some good affordable plans i would for sure get a iphone!
But FUCK this bullshit right now!!!!!