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Wow it is way cheaper to get a phone and bill it back to the company - Why do they rip-off businesses?

Somebody please explain to me what "enterprise data" is. Why pay $45 for an enterprise data plan that exactly mirrors the $30 "individual" data plan?

Jan 21, 08 - 12:30 pm Comment from: ericdano

So that is in additon to the talk time fees? Rather expensive......

Anyone know of the plugin for Safari that turns off ads? I'm sick of looking at NObama

Jan 21, 08 - 12:44 pm Comment from: qka

New Corporate Responsibility Users and other corporate-liable users (CRUs) must activate an eligible voice service plan for iPhone and an Enterprise Data Plan for iPhone. If you’re an existing CRU with iPhone-eligible voice service and you want to keep your current voice plan, you just need to add an Enterprise Data Plan for iPhone.

Please try that again, this time in English.

look up this one -- i use it and it works pretty well

Jan 21, 08 - 01:06 pm Comment from: Snapper

The Canadian data plan will probably be $90 a month... Currently it's $60 for 25mb Thanks for ripping us off Rogers.

Jan 21, 08 - 01:15 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

huh huh... NObama... i are funny...

If you have to ask, the answer wouldn't help.

NObama - ha ha ha!

Besides the more SMS options, what's the point of these plans? For small businesses with a single (or just a couple of users), why not just go with the Individual or Family Shared plan?

Canadia is another country, with dissimilar operating costs, etc.

It's more expensive to do business in Canadia. You're no more being ripped off than Alaska residents who pay more for oranges than Floridians. Only Alaskans have actually figured this out.

Is there a practical reason why P2P photo-enhanced MMS is not a function?

I am really getting annoyed by my "view message at viewmymessage.com" texts I'm getting ~ which I can't reasonalbly access from my iPhone as the login & P/W are rediculous random numbers I'd need a pen & paper to write down.

Also, viewmymessgage.com was shut down last night

Curious ...

where's canadia?

Dream on Snooper, the reason it is more expensive in Canada is that US firms have been screwing Canadians for years because of the Dollar differences and like any addict can't change their habits with the Dollar becomes equal. Just look at car prices and better yet gas prices.

Canadia is where Canadians are from.

Come on Smart, keep up.

@Chris ~ "Somebody please explain to me what "enterprise data" is. Why pay $45 for an enterprise data plan that exactly mirrors the $30 "individual" data plan?"

It's $39 + 20 data plan for me, so this is ~$5 cheaper.

John Boy, I must respectfully stand by my statement. I do however understand why Canadians feel like they are being ripped off. In Europe the British are going through the same thing. How about US$21k for a Neon and $6 a gallon?

American companies operate internationally within constraints that often prohibit running at tightly controlled profit margins, as they do in the U.S.
In other words they have to build in broader profits as a hedge against exchange volatility. They can't raise and lower their prices as the dollar fluctuates, they have to account for it somehow.

btw, the 'Canadia' jibe is not meant to be hostile. I've been from Nanaimo to Saskatoon. It's impossible to dislike Canadians, much less want to rip them off. At least Canadians from Nanaimo to Saskatoon.

That would be, a Neon in 2001.

Do American Companies really exist anymore? Aren't the large corporations really multi-national? They may or may not have corporate offices in the US but when money is concerned it's really all about the money.
Even the beloved Apple - if it were really AMERICAN wouldn't Americans be putting these wonderful machines together. It isn't happening. The ones I just bought shipped from Shanghai.
If you think our neighbors to the North are the only ones getting the shaft from so called American companies, watch Maxed Out.
... all about the money.

Enterprise Data is fancy speak for the idea of peak period usage. Most of us individuals are supposedly working during peak hours. And yes the networks are busier during working hours. So the Network provider builds a business based on selling to businesses and then as gravy they offer us access to the network knowing that for the most part our demand will run counter to their prime customers. Any company that can't justify these rates by improved productivity should be looking at why they even need the tool. Phone service has long been an area where the individual got better pricing than business users.

Jan 21, 08 - 04:38 pm Comment from: bobchr

@whatever the company doesn't pay for it ...you and I do when we support that business by buying it's products and services. All the plans no matter how expensive are a write off as the cost of doing business. As a sub contractor (masonry) I often have to deal with contractors that call me in to bid on jobs from drawings. The estimators for this contractor often do not leave the office to note the initial conditions at the job site that may affect my bid price for a job. After meeting in the office of the contractors estimator I will give them a price based on the drawings as seen with the proviso that I go to the site to see the actual initial conditions. My bid price may double or triple depending on what I see at the site. I take pictures and email them to the estimator with my justification, all using the Iphone. Now I probably won't get this business plan but I would have to say between Map usage pictures , email, text messages to sidestep overloaded voice mail, I probably will write off 80% of my Iphone for last year. I may not get these cost back from the contractor in my bid but I can certainly preserve my business capital with writing off the cost of the iphone.

So you think I'll be able to transfer my individual plan to my company's corporate AT&T;account now?