I highily doubt the price of the iPhone will increase to be honest. Rogers, Telus and Bell are already ripping customers off...
In USA customers pay $199 on a Two year contract....in Canada Customers paid $199 on 3 year contract....they already made a fortune off of everyone so I dont see them increasing the price as the carriers will still be making money at the end of the day no matter what. Not to mention Canada has worlds most expensive carrier plans...
with all that being Said I don't see the prices increasing on iPhones purchased on "Contracts".
Hopefully Wind Mobile sticks around long enough and we could finally see the Canadian Wireless market finally starting to make sense and be affordable for everyone like it globally with many options when it comes to choosing the carrier that fits our needs.
ps I'm from Canada and was a Telus & Virgin customer for years.
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I believe Fido has been the provider going forward with reasonable prices plans and then carriers like koodo copying the exact same plan.
Fido's 3 year plans right now are absolutely retarded... The lowest plan is $55 with 200mb of data and 250 minutes... I really don't see the reason why the plan i got in December 2012 of Unlimited talk text and 2gb of data can't be offered on a 3 year contract... I HIGHLY doubt fido pays anywhere close to $56 for 2gb of data and lets face it, most people won't use over 1000 minutes in a month. There's still room for profit and subsidy costs.
Fido is owned by Rogers 100%, So is Chatr....its Rogers that makes money from you with retarded plans...I know the plan your talking about "Unlimited Canada-Wide + 2GB Data" for $56+Tax was the absolute best deal, I got that on a Two-Year contract.
Some of Fido, Koodo, and Virgin plans just dont make sense...actually Virgin (Bell) has been changing its plans over the past like year so much that I feel like they just dont know what bundles they should just put together which work....lol...only if they were like Straight Talk/Simple Mobile etc.
PS good thing about Canadian Sub-Carriers is that they have access to LTE/4G HSPA+ at full speeds as compared to Straight Talk/Net10/H2O Wireless/Simple Mobile etc.
Telus owns Koodo and Bell Owns Virgin Mobile, however they all like to say that they are not "Associated" when in-fact they are...