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June 27th, 2008

Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates

Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 11:39 pm

Categories: iPhone, 3G

Tags: Apple iPhone, Plan, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Jason D. O'Grady

Rogers/Fido just announced their iPhone rate plans today, and our Canadian neighbors to the north are sorta freaking out about them. Just take a look at Digg.

We’re kind of spoiled here in the U.S. with our unlimited data plans, but capped data and massive overage fees aren’t the only thing that Canadian iPhone customers are pissed off about. Get a load of the paltry 150 minute plan and CAN$15 extra charge for caller ID. Sheesh.

Here’s a sample of the cheapest iPhone plan on Rogers/Fido (prices are in Canadian dollars):

$60.00 - Price plan - 150 minutes/75 SMS
$00.50 - 911 Access fee
$06.95 - System Access fee
$15.00 - Caller ID (WTF?)

$82.45 - Sub Total

$04.13 - GST
$10.73 - Total Taxes

$86.58 - Monthly Total
$93.18 - Including PST

I wonder when AT&T is going to clue us in about the U.S. rate plans?

Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of PowerPage.org, which has been publishing daily mobile technology news since December 1995. For disclosures on Jason's industry affiliations, click here.
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Size of Canada
The low population density claim doesn't hold water. Take a look at Rogers coverage map -- the vast majority of Canada doesn't have *any* cell phone coverage. Only the populated areas (and larger areas of the praries -- no hills means wider coverage) have coverage.... (Read the rest)
Posted by: canuckinlv Posted on: 07/29/08 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
You should see how much Rogers charges for cable happyharry_z   | 06/28/08
Of course Canada's prices are high frgough   | 06/28/08
Brainless croberts   | 06/28/08
I'll take CDMA over GSM any day. Bruizer   | 06/28/08
Of course you would kitko   | 06/28/08
GSM call quality simply bites. Bruizer   | 06/29/08
Do some homework Tupac Mossgreen   | 06/28/08
You forgot T-Mobile voyager529   | 06/28/08
Just a question kitko   | 06/28/08
not much tom.bielecki   | 06/28/08
..the Qannaddian "system" Feldwebel Wolfenstool   | 06/28/08
... snberk203   | 06/28/08
RE: Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates tom.bielecki   | 06/28/08
RE: Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates snberk203   | 06/28/08
Welcome to my world kaiwai   | 06/28/08
RE: Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates jrockford   | 06/30/08
... snberk203   | 06/30/08
RE: Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates sawatzky   | 07/17/08
Size of Canada canuckinlv   | 07/29/08

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  • iPhone Lover
    three plans, the cheapest being €30 per month. All plans will have unlimited data, 2 Mbit down and 384 Kbps up. You also get free access to 1,500 Wi-Fi hotspots. Not a bad deal, especially compared the the shellacking Canadians are getting via http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1907

    Trackback by Anonymous — July 3, 2008 @ 3:05 am

  • How to further discourage early iPhone adopters
    eWeek published an article by Joe Wilcox last week entitled, Apple Watch -iPhone- AT&T’s Pay-Even-More Policy. I wasn’t aware, until that point, of the impact to family plan or multi-line users. I lamented about it on FriendFeed and ...

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