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Mark
I'm not buying it... plan to upgrade to the new BB Bold when it arrives... it suits my purposes to a T and won't break my bank. I love shiny toys, but only when they're useful and fairly priced in the marketplace.
The $100 plan is pretty comparable to the average blackberry plan. It's not good, but it's not surprising. I've got a feeling that Rogers used their blackberry customer usage stats to come up with the price plans, but they forgot that most berry users expense their berries back to companies, they don't pay out of their own pocket. I've got my doubts that companies will allow employees to expense their iPhone ;-)
corporate plans, so it's not as painful, or at least not directly.
But the iPhone is a totally different market.
Rogers really missed the boat on this and I believe/hope sales of the iPhone and the recently released rate fail miserably so that they reconsider. Don't even get me started on the 3 year mandatory plan!!!!
Please everybody sign the petition and send an email to the big wigs at Rogers and Apple (addresses on the petition web site).
It would also be helpful to Digg the pages in order to get more visibility on Digg.
Given our geography, however, I can't see anyone capable of challenging the status quo any time soon. There's no way someone like Shaw could suddenly put up thousands of new towers while simultaneously undercutting the pricing of the established players.
Australia is the worst at 40+c / 30sec. calls. and no data on most prepaid.
I'd like to point out there is a big difference between prepaid and plans. everyone talks about postpaid plans when most of the world suffers much worse on the ghastly prepaid plans. most times no data at all.
in all my recent travels airtel, India and tmobile, UK offered unlimited fixed price data plans for prepaid. its a shame more people in north America don't talk about
this more.
most early adopters, we already have iphones or will simply obtain and unlock. and hopefully new national gsm carrier in Canada is data friendly. the early adopters will get around it like using the secret sacred sixty plan (60$/1GB) ask for it. its the same plan as the hsdpa data card.
but wait a second... doesn't canadian copyright bill make reverse engineering illegal? criminal maybe, like the US dmca?
[looks like iPhone safari text input is failing me now. post before it crashes :o ]
sadly it seems that only open competition in a truely free market will deal with this problem -- that includes foreign competition.
this is just the tip. try roaming data on for size?
isn't that outrageous?
to download a song from iTunes on data would cost 75$ for a short 3MB song.
BUT why is it if I buy that same song from the rogers music portal they waive the data charge and bill me $1.25huh?
even more confusing and nonsensical,
a voice call is still data. in fact, a voice call uses ~0.7-1.6kB/sec.
that's 10cents/ second in data??
42-97.5kB/ minute.
the equivalent of a 1 minute call in data is $2.10 - $4.87/ minute if data is used instead of voice. heck I get free voice calls after 6pm but then why not free data.
why are there two prices for what is effectively the same service.
I guess we let tel/cablecos bill once for voip(phone), again for iptv(tv), and once again for tcp/ip(Internet), why not once again for mobile.
now can we finally include mobile in the net neutrality debate?
Hopefully, the decision to split off a portion of the wireless spectrum auction to new players will provide some eventual relief.
I doubt that the big three wireless providers have really considered how many of their customers deal with them only begrudgingly, feeling fleeced with every bill and just itching to find a service provider that they feel will appreciate thier business.
It would seem that for many people, the Canadian cell phone rate experience is akin to getting a plumber on a Sunday night. You have no choice but to pay the massive markup because he is the only game in town at that hour. Until we get a few new plumbers, ones who must build a loyal customer base in order to survive, this situation is unlikely to change.
Dave
I think a lot of people are missing the most important point of all:
If we don't have fair and reasonable unlimited data rates in Canada... there will be very little in the way of 3d party (jesus phone or otherwise) mobile application adoption (and related development/innovations).
Irony: Moving to TO I have to use Rogers for a lot of services. Sigh.
hope so. But then again, they may be just as happy to join the cozy
little club, and not be too eager to rock the boat price-wise.
Canadian consumers are "mad, are standing up and are not taking it anymore".
Hopefully Apple will do the right thing and remove iPhone from Robbers.
All Canadian captains of industry should be aware, this is a shot across their bows for their neanderthal and predatory business practices.
Change NOW or perish!
Terry