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Rogers Announces iPhone Plans in Canada

LaDirection said:
Time to understand how business works.

Canada is larger than the US, yet, we got approx 30 million people. For a few million users (maybe less), a cell phone carrier has to build one of the world's largest network to offer the same kind of coverage and quality. Imagine the cost to revenue ratio.
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Sorry but you need to understand the telco business.

Fixed assests are deprectiated over 5-10 years. Data and voice networks all run on the same network wherever deployed ie broadband, voice and mobile traffic all run on the same fiber / copper to the telco exchanges. Aggregated revenues from all services (fixed, mobile, commercial/ residential data and internet) will payback these expenditures (capex/opex) over time.

It's very obvious the iphone 3G price plans on Rogers are not in line with their other 3G / 2G mobile pricing. Their ARPU is definitely higher on the 3G iPhone for no legitimate reason. It's rape.
 
just a side note here, i think our email complaints may be working. i just got an automated reply that said the following:

"Thank you for your inquiry. Due to an increase in email volume, it may
take us up to 5 business days to respond to your email. We apologize for
this inconvenience."
 
Virgil-TB2 said:
...That being said however, why do people always want to include "Caller ID" in the packages? It seems to me that by virtue of your contacts list in your address book, that you already have caller ID of a sort for free on the iPhone. Caller ID as a system feature would only be needed to who you the phone number of people not already in your address book wouldn't it? And how often will that happen?

Considering the $15 dollar price, why would anyone need caller ID that bad?

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Actually (different phone -Razor, different company -Telus), I have to add the Caller ID option otherwise, all I get is the phone number, even if the caller is in my phone address book (obviously, not THE Address Book app).
 
Hawkeye411 said:
Switch to Vonage and get everything included for free :)
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waiting for skype actually. it seems that rogers and bell are paying off the politicians (again, and a known fact since the charges laid to certain politians) to not grant skype the ability to get canadian numbers.
 
Wes1731 said:
just a side note here, i think our email complaints may be working. i just got an automated reply that said the following:

"Thank you for your inquiry. Due to an increase in email volume, it may
take us up to 5 business days to respond to your email. We apologize for
this inconvenience."
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keep hitting them with emails! ****in ****ers need to listen or die
 
Wes1731 said:
just a side note here, i think our email complaints may be working. i just got an automated reply that said the following:

"Thank you for your inquiry. Due to an increase in email volume, it may
take us up to 5 business days to respond to your email. We apologize for
this inconvenience."
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I just got that as well lol.
 
I wrote the CBC, and Elizabeth Hamilton. All that I have left is to contact Apple. I suggest every Canadian here do the same.
 
peterdevries said:
Whaaaaaaaaaaat??????:confused::eek::confused::eek:



I'm completely flabbergasted by this. You have to pay extra to see who has called or is calling you? And dialing 911 costs you 50 cents?

That's just criminal. You have our (all Europeans) sympathy..
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Actually, it's worst then that. You have to pay 50¢ every month for the 911 service + you have to pay for each call you make to the 911...
 
Hawkeye411 said:
How do you get the police to come to you when your using your cellphone? You tell them where you are currently located. Also, if you keep your address up to date with Vonage there are no problems.

Cheers.
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Wireless service providers in Nova Scotia automatically direct 911 calls to the emergency response center located closest to the cell tower handling the call, and the 911 operator is provided the coordinates of the cell tower handling the call. With that much information, at the very least, it's highly unlikely that an ambulance would be sent to the wrong city.

[edit]Anyway, I still use a traditional Ma-Bell landline phone at home. 99.999% up-time, baby![/edit]
 
Is everything else still more expensive in Canada?

I seem to still be seeing prices on magazines and other stuff structured like "$4.99 in the USA, $6.99 in Canada". However, with the USD and CAD exchange rate being 1:1 these days, shouldn't all the prices be adjusted so they are equal??!! Just doesn't seem right that they would still charge more for something in Canada now that our money is pretty much equal.
 
morespce54 said:
Actually, it's worst then that. You have to pay 50¢ every month for the 911 service + you have to pay for each call you make to the 911...
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Nope, Rogers doesn't charge airtime for 911 calls. None of the big three Canadian carriers do.
 
djrobsd said:
I seem to still be seeing prices on magazines and other stuff structured like "$4.99 in the USA, $6.99 in Canada". However, with the USD and CAD exchange rate being 1:1 these days, shouldn't all the prices be adjusted so they are equal??!! Just doesn't seem right that they would still charge more for something in Canada now that our money is pretty much equal.
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Yeah, we're getting screwed left right and center. Even Apple still charges more on their Canadian site. Mind you it's considerably less than what it was, but it's still ludicrous. Rogers on the other hand just wants to make money. There's no competition to give them an incentive to drive down their prices. What it pretty much comes down to is they KNOW they can get away with it, so the DO... Bastards the whole lot of them... I don't even have a choice to switch if I wanted to.
 
Man, why do you poor Canadians get screwed like this? And I thought US carriers were vultures - ours look positively humanitarian compared to these rates (or should that be "rapes")...
 
duncanm said:
I wrote the CBC, and Elizabeth Hamilton. All that I have left is to contact Apple. I suggest every Canadian here do the same.
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Why?

It's just a phone. Right?

Expensive bugger too. Apple won't be getting my money until Rogers puts its costs in line.

s.
 
duncanm said:
I wrote the CBC, and Elizabeth Hamilton. All that I have left is to contact Apple. I suggest every Canadian here do the same.
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Hmm...here's an idea. How about every Canadian just not buy the iPhone. You don't need the gov. to intervene or Apple or anyone else. If no one buys the iPhone at those plan prices, then the price will come down. It's as simple as that.
 
eastcoastsurfer said:
Hmm...here's an idea. How about every Canadian just not buy the iPhone. You don't need the gov. to intervene or Apple or anyone else. If no one buys the iPhone at those plan prices, then the price will come down. It's as simple as that.
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and no one use the internet. or have a house line or cable tv.

that will teach them
 
I'm with fido and eagerly waiting for my plans (which I doubt will be much different from rogers). If fido ends up with similar archaic plans, it will be almost certain that I will not purchase an Iphone 3G from them and sign up to a plan. This is thievery. Cell phone companies in Canada are run like a mafia.
 
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