Rogers announces iPhone 3G plans, unlimited data isn't one of them
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jun 27th 2008 9:05AM
posted Jun 27th 2008 9:05AM
Here we have it, iPhone 3G pricing for our better mannered, gun-toting friends up north. All the plans from Rogers Wireless require that lovely, three-year contract and include visual voicemail, free evenings and weekends, and unlimited WiFi at all Rogers and Fido hotspots. The plans start at $60/month for 150 minutes of voice and just 400MB of data before topping out at $115/month for 800 minutes voice and up to 2GB of data. None of these plans offer unlimited data as previously rumored. See the details after the break. | Price | Voice | Data | Sent Text Messages | Incoming Text Messages | Visual Voicemail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $60 | 150 minutes + unlimited evening and weekend |
400 MB (up to 200,000 text emails or 3,100 web pages or 1,360 photo attachments) |
75 |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| $75 | 300 minutes + unlimited evening and weekend | 750 MB (up to 380,000 text emails or 5,900 web pages or 2,560 photo Attachments) |
100 |
Unlimited | Unlimited |
| $100 | 600 minutes + unlimited evening and weekend | 1 GB (up to 524,000 text emails or 8,000 web pages or 3,500 photo attachments) |
200 |
Unlimited | Unlimited |
| $115 | 800 minutes + unlimited evening and weekend | 2 GB (up to 1,048,000 text emails or 16,000 web pages or 7,000 photo attachments) |
300 |
Unlimited | Unlimited |
Rogers Wireless will also offer two voice value packs for popular wireless features: a $15 monthly value pack including Caller ID, Who Called, Caller Ring Trax, 2,500 Sent Text Messages and 2,500 Call Forwarding Minutes; and a $20 monthly value pack including Caller ID, Who Called, Caller Ring Trax, 10,000 Sent Text Messages and 6:00 p.m. Early Evening Calling and 2,500 Call Forwarding Minutes.
Now I know what people mean when they say that Rogers sucks.
Leave it to Rogers to Buck the system.
Wow...60 bux + $7.45 in system fees + 13% in taxes....76 bux...thats $36 more than my current plan...
Yea, I would uproot my family and move elsewhere. 150 minutes for +/- $75 is about as stupid as, well i cant think of anything that stupid. Make a statement, and GTFO of there with all that nonsense.
It's not horrible when compared to other Canadian carrier plans when you factor in that the competition usually only gives you 4MB.
400MB would be more than enough for me, but the 150mins is kinda flakey.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to stick with my HTC Touch on Bell (sadly CDMA), but Bell classifies the Touch as a feature phone, not a smart phone (due to lack of keyboard), so their 'unlimited' $7 data plan is available for it.
I've used it to download about 700Mb worth of podcasts in one month, not to mention Google Maps and browsing with Opera 9.5 for over 1Gb of data in one month, and haven't heard a peep from them about overusing the data.
I really hate sounding like an ad for Bell, but that loophole is a pretty awesome one.
Wow, Rogers customers really "diggs" this crap?? Or it's just a bunch of Apple or iPhone fanboys coming in here and "digg" anything to do with the iPhone?
Rogers totally suck. Ted Rogers needs to go soon. This douche bag is charging people like crazy and the idiot bottle our limited monthly bandwidth to like 60GB a month.
So the Telco rape gauge goes like this?
Canada
Hell
US
Europe
HA! THOSE ARE EXCELLENT RATES COMPARED TO WHAT THEY HAD BEFORE!!!
Check out the Smartphone data rates before the new ones were announced, these prices were taken right off Rogers website:
Standard rate for Smartphone customers with Data plan
"Up to 5MB = $15/MB
5MB > 10MB = $10/MB
10MB > 20MB = $5/MB
more than 20MB = $0.50/MB thereafter"
So, adding it up from the above scale, this is what is costs PER MONTH for data usage on a Smartphone:
5MB per month, $75/month
10MB per month, $125/month
20MB per month, $175/month
100MB per month, $215/month
1000MB per month, $665/month
and for AT&T's 3G iPhone "unlimited data" which is limited to 5GB/month, Roger's customers would pay a whopping $2,665 per month
What kills me is that you need to add the $15 package just to get your visual voicemail to work properly - it relies on callerid which isn't in the base package! That's like buying a bike that comes with "optional" pedals.
Think that's bad?
O2 Ireland only includes 1GB of data and no visual voicemail - for 45 Euro a month, starting price.
Ok enough with the stupid euro comments. You all get PAID in euros for peets sake so its only 45 of your "dollars" which is the same as some one in the US paying 45 of their dollars /end rant
on a side note gawd that plan sucks i do apologize on behalf of your wireless provider price raping you
I know how you feel, i'm going to buy a pay as you go one and pop in my 3 sim card for a real service
Agreed... how can you say "think that's bad?" You pay a little more for far more data. Visual Voicemail is one of those features I could live without, and gladly would for an extra 600 MB of data.
("Agreed" = agreed with the stupid Euro comments...) And I'm not saying that your O2 plan doesn't suck, but that it's hard to say that it sucks more than the Rogers plan.
Think THAT'S bad? Here in Israel we actually have the highest cellphone/person ratio in the world (!) yet we won't even get the iPhone here for some undisclosed reason (while countries with just 1 million people, or 3rd world African countries would), though rumours say it's because the cell phone companies joined together to prevent it as they would lose money (an N95 through a phone company costs about 1500$ here, no joke)
So yeah, everybody start feeling real good about yourself because most of the world has it much worse.
The value of 45 Euros to Europeans is not necessarily the same as 45 dollars to Americans. The purchasing power of a currency is related to average price level of the products that can be purchased with the currency. So if prices in Europe are on average double to those in the US, then 45 Euro would have the same value to a European as about $22.50 to an American.
Umm...actually 45 Euros is more like $70 US, not $22 US.
you didn't understand what he just said do you..... European min wage is on average 1.5-2 times that of north America. but, living costs are higher as well. (cost of food, clothing ect). so, when the plan costs 45 euro and a can of pop costs 2$ in europe but that same can costs 1$ in NA, the phone plan can be calculated in "cans of pop" rather then Euros or $, ( which is completly dooable seeing as currencies are just ways of determining the value of different goods and comparing them to each other)
so, in the US a can of pop is 1$ which in Europe is worth 2$ -> ie 1 us$ has the same purchasing power as two euros ie the plan would be equivelent to 22.5 cans of european pop or 22.5 us $.
moral of story -> purchasing power is different then currency exchange rates. and in most cases give a much truer gage of international costs.
Damn you Rogers.
actually i think it would be
F&*& Rogers you *****
you as in rogers that you the person commenting***
ahh screw this
F&** rogers
there fixed
Yup......I have to agree wholeheartedly!!
FUCK YOU ROGERS!!!
iphone iphone iphone ... who cares anymore? most ppl got the sprint instinct anyways...
This is the reason we need more competetion in Canada. Rogers is the only GSM carrier in Canada and therefore can charge whatever the hell it wants for it's services. I can't wait for the wireless auction to be over and to get new carriers.
I wouldn't bet on that. I think that Shaw might be bidding on the spectrum, and there's some talk that they might just hold on to whatever they buy in hopes of flipping it for a profit in a couple of years. Guess who would probably buy that space? There a company out of Quebec as well, but no large national bidders. They should open it up to more foreign companies like T-Mobile to be able to come in, but since they're a bunch of retards, I heard they're not doing that. You might see a slight decrease in rates, but overall we're screwed. Not that this is anything new in Canada - just check out the situation with only 5 large banks. Business as usual.
Don't bet on any new competition in the GSM category on Canadian soil. First off, the spectrum auction is for frequencies that aren't already in use, meaning new handsets with new specs before that can be taken advantage of. Second, every fricking new start up over the last 5 years has been CDMA, instead of GSM, because they seem to prefer piggy-backing off Bell's network.
Compared to what the US gets for iPhone plans, these are crap... But for Rogers, I'm *almost* impressed. The fact that they include unlimited Wi-Fi at their hotspots *almost* makes up the lack of unlimited 3G data.
Deutsche Telekom is apparently bringing T-Mobile to Canada in 2009. Yak has also applied for a cell spectrum.
Once again us Canadians get absolutely raped by our telcos.
It's so bizarre. For a country with wired broadband access so much ahead of the U.S. (by North American standards) I can't understand why we can't get our acts together on wireless.
Rogers really sucks. And to think that this is the plan they came out with after Apple probably had to beat them over the head to get the prices down. I can't imagine what it would have been otherwise...
It's called a monopoly, they can do what ever the hell they want.
These plans do indeed suck. But hey, it's better (almost?) than anything we've ever seen from Rogers.
Funny how Rogers and rape both start with an "R". Also brings new meaning to "R" rated. I'm just glad there are at least 3 major wireless carries in the US and even the heavily lobbied government would never allow it to go down to just one.
because the telcos are somehow linked to the Gov :P biggest crooks!
Man this isn't just rape, this is taking it in the arse with no vaseline!
@ Todd
Bro, they're not even pulling your pants down first!
These plans are *worse* than I expected however. And the CRTC are total d!ck$ for doing so much less for Canadians than even the FCC does in the US.
What really needs to happen is that the government should remove the $.03/kb surcharge tacked onto US cell phones in Canada, and let Canadians sign up with AT&T. That's about the only thing that will force competitive Canadian prices. (Heck, even the threat of doing it would likely force competitive prices!)
I think you mean the general population of the world is once again being raped by the telcos. I tend to hate the way Apple locks you into their hardware + software model, but I can see it as a necessary evil when trying to keep together some form of sanity in the ever-changing technology industry. But when even Jobs isn't able to stand the way telcos lock you into their pointless, money hoarding models, you know there's something amiss. Though I do feel at least somewhat lucky that the US wasn't completely screwed over by AT&T considering they do have a 5 year lock on the phone.
rogers is a 3 contract instead of 2 as well!!
*year
F*cking Rogers... This is actually such a kick in the nuts - do I even want an iPhone with those plans now?
Not living in Canada.
But when ever I hear someone talk about Rogers and their data charges,
I normally the words very expensive, followed with a lot of profanities.
This is insanity for sure, but we should have expected nothing less. The beautiful thing for Rogers? they'll sell every damn iPhone they get for the next 6 months.
Congrats Rogers,
You have apparently made the mightiest of evil AT&T look like an angel. I commend you on your hard work.
Signed,
Holy S*** i feel sorry for you Canadians
I agree. I used to think AT&T were a bunch of greedy dogs, but when I hear the name Rogers... I spit.
Good luck if you can reach that cap on the Roger's Network.
I would hit it pretty quick...
i think he's alluding to poor bandwidth IT dude
Even after taking 10 minutes to digest this news, I'm still not over it...$115 for 2 GB!?
Hey, bytes are expensive! There may be a shortage of them someday. Just look at oil ;)
gosh dammit I hate Rogers and their monopoly power