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Oct 28, 08 - 11:04 am Comment from: Wandering joe

Good for Rogers, don't know if its good for Canadians though

Oct 28, 08 - 11:08 am Comment from: Crazylegs

"...but it lowered the full-year outlook for its wireless unit to reflect higher costs of activating new customers,"

What freaks me out is the big petition against Rogers for ruining the iPhone thanks to the horrible data pricing. All the talk about how the iPhone was going to fail in Canada because of it.

Looks like that dried up once the device was available. I see so many iPhones on Toronto streets it's crazy. But like Wandering Joe says, good for Rogers...for Canadians tho....maybe not so much. Our data rates are very expensive in comparison to other parts of the world, not just Rogers, Bell and Telus too.

Now that Telus and Bell will be HPSDA by 2009 you will see some competition. Hopefully the prices will go down.

If all your big providers are expensive, maybe that should tell you something. Maybe, just maybe, it's more expensive to provide cell phone service in Canada because of population density, government policy, or innumerable other reasons? But I bet it makes you feel better to just blame those "evil" telcos, no?

Oct 28, 08 - 12:12 pm Comment from: Big Al

@ peterj,

Rogers capitulated and gave everyone lower data rates.

@ the person responding to my initial post

It doesn't make me feel better to bash "evil" telcos. I wasn't bashing at all. I was stating a fact that data rates are higher in Canada.

Of course there are lots factors determining why the rates are so high but one of them surely is "what the market will bear." With the stunning success of the iPhone there's less of an incentive to bring down prices. If the iPhone failed miserably in Canada (after it did so well in the States) the industry as a whole may have looked at their rates and brought them down. But hey...I have my iPhone and I love it.

Oct 28, 08 - 01:12 pm Comment from: DanielM

@ Big Al

Yep. More data that we didn't need.

AT&T;said that the average iPhone customer used approximately 100 MBs per month, which was the basis for Rogers pricing.

Rogers upped the data package to 6 GBs per month on introduction. Heard that the actually DATA USAGE is less than 150 MBs/month.

Turns out the US is getting a lot for nothing.

And Rogers doesn't charge me for incoming text messages, unlike most others, including AT&T;

Oct 28, 08 - 01:41 pm Comment from: ElderNorm

Hmmmm!!! Just maybe its really true.

Apple is going to save the world.

From Microsoft.
By single handedly rising the stock market in both USA and Canada.
Which will rise the world market.
Which makes people buy more stock.
Which ends the recession.

there you go. Apple is single-handedly saving the world from its financial mess.

The down side? Apple stock tanks and now everyone blames Apple for not fixing their problem.

Whirlpool sues Apple for using its "white" color on its MacBooks and for decreasing sales.

Ford sues Apple for allowing it to "Sync" with Microsoft.... and dropping sales.

etc.

Just a thought.
en..... er nostradomas the second.

I agree completely with the poster mentioning the data usage. I absolutely had to have the 6gb data package. I am using on average 100mb per month. It is nowhere near what people in the states claimed they used. I actually use all of the services as well.

Oct 28, 08 - 07:11 pm Comment from: blucaso

Someone forgot to say "Bloodbath"

Rogers knew beforehand that 6 gigs of data looked amazing for $30 bucks but was a red herring - its actually difficult to use more than about 200 mb a month, UNLESS you are d/loading music, but not from iTunes, it ONLY works with wifi.
What a scam! If 6 gigs is $30, then pro-rated, I should be paying exactly ONE DOLLAR for 200 mb.

Apple are partly to blame, because they wanted big data numbers to differentiate the iPhone, but its mostly the EVIL telco Rogers.

Rogers - scum of the planet.

Oct 29, 08 - 05:44 am Comment from: DanielM

@ Derek in Winnipeg

AT&T;reported that the average iPhone customer uses 100 MBs per month. So in effect, we are paying for something that we don't use that much.

However, everytime somebody sends me a text message, my account gets charged. Your's doesn't.