Canadian iPhone 3G plans lack unlimited data
It will cost you north of the border.
(Credit: Apple)If you think AT&T's iPhone 3G service plans are expensive, just consider what Rogers is forcing on our Canadian friends.
Friday, the carrier announced its service plans for the iPhone 3G, none of which include unlimited data use. Instead, Rogers will cap data each month at a certain amount, which will range from 400MB for the cheapest service plan ($60 Canadian or $59.23 U.S.) to 2GB for the most expensive plan ($115 Canadian or $113.64 U.S.).
Though 2GB is a lot of data, we're not sure how a customer is supposed to know what 2GB even means in real-world use. True, you can track your data use on the iPhone, but it's not like tracking calling minutes.
In its press release, Rogers does provide a convenient chart to gauge your data usage--apparently, 2G amounts to 16,000 Web pages (who knew?)--but we don't approve of such an arrangement at all. The iPhone's Web browser is one of its top attractions, particularly on a 3G network, and asking users to limit their data certainly isn't putting the "Internet in your pocket." Rogers is offering unlimited Wi-Fi access at all Rogers and Fido hotspots, but that in itself is limiting if you have to be in one place.
What's more, the data restrictions aren't the half of it. While AT&T's cheapest iPhone 3G service plan ($69 per month) includes 450 anytime minutes, the cheapest Rogers plan (the one with 400MB of data) only gets 150 anytime minutes. Ouch. Similarly Rogers' most expensive plan includes only 800 anytime minutes while AT&T's priciest plan ($129 per month) includes unlimited anytime minutes. Double ouch.
Come on, Rogers, you have to give your customers a little more. Especially when your contracts run three years.
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Come on people. Say NO to Rogers and demand a fair price for the iPhone. After all what's the point of having an iPhone if you will be limited in exactly what the iPhone is for, a portable internet device and a phone.
After waiting anxiously a full year to get an iPhone here in Canada, I'm sad to say I'm not getting one. I'm buying an iPod Touch and doing my part in saying NO to Canadian cell prices. It's really frustrating also as a developer as I was hoping to get my hands on the iPhone and start developing some cool applications for it. Not in Canada though.
According to your calculation Rogers Makes 200%+ on the plan and i am pretty sure that their cost is closer to like 2$ or 3$. Rogers as lost the little cridibility it as left. i will never ever buy any rogers product of any kind. ROGERS IS STEALING MONEY FROM CANADIANS PERIOD. Canada as the most expensive dats rate for cel phone in the UNIVERSER and it does not make sense!
I sure hope the iPhone is a total flop in canada. (anyone paying those CRMINAL rates for a cel phone as a IQ in the single digit).
Rogers need to be fined multi-billion $$ for attamps at scaming a whole country.
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by amuzulo
June 28, 2008 12:27 AM PDT
- This also really sucks for content providers. We're planning to build an iPhone multiplayer gaming platform and now we can pretty much assume we won't have any Canadian customers. Ugh.
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