Comments on: Rogers & Fido pricing for iPhone: Criminal

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:58:48 +0000

Just ordered one yesterday the 8 gig, added it to my exiting sub-urban package plus a $30/month data package with a renewal of 3 years on my contract. Was a bit disappointed last night to learn the new iphone 3g doesn’t support a2dp, which I use almost every day throughout the week now.. A phone this new should have this ability in my opinion. My unlocked Z3 does this now with np. Guess I will be shopping for a new headset as the ipod/iphone ones suck and fall out of your ears on a regular basis…

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:40:38 +0000

It is stupidly expensive. However to give some credit the costs of running a cell network is a lot more in Canada without creating area pricing (cheaper in the cities and more in rural areas). the amount of towers required to create the networks compared to the actual maximum amount of users possible is ridiculous.

All that said those start-up costs should have been covered by now, so online petitions and pressure on your government officials is a good idea (they’ve started listening with the auction held a few months ago).

By: moby

moby — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:38:46 +0000

That blows. However, someone could give me an iphone here and I still would not switch to Cingular aka ATT.

I have Tmobile Wing. I use a lot of data services. I also text way more than I talk on the phone. I send/receive btwn 2-3 thousand text messages a month. I used a whopping 50-100 minutes if I’m lucky.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:50:23 +0000

Thx for throwing this out there Andrew - good to see what others are actually using. I’ve had an iPhone in Toronto since last August but don’t have data so I can’t really tell how much up/down I’d be using.

I’m tempted to bite for the $60 plan though for a few months and see how that goes, maybe going up to $75 if I go over my limit. I’m already paying $80/month on some ridiculous plan I had left over from my Blackberry Pearl that included just 0.5 MB per month. In comparison, this is a huge amount of data they’re giving.

By: Chris Lowe

Chris Lowe — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:33:51 +0000

I have had the iPhone for almost 1 year I average about 75Mb recieved and 25Mb sent each month. I use wifi almost all the time as it auto detects very easily.