Rogers & Fido pricing for iPhone: Criminal
Bastards! First the bad news.
Below are the newly announced Canadian iPhone pricing plans offered by Rogers and Fido.
Stupid overpriced.
Yeah, no unlimited data, so don’t get too excited about that 3G capability… the greedy GSM monopoly wants to make sure Canada stays naked and chained to the floor, like a good little bitch.
And for those of you that haven’t seen how expensive even calling minutes are here, look at the $60 plan. 150 daytime minutes! Wow, unlimited voicemail! We still get CHARGED for caller ID though.
There is a tiny bit of good news, despite all this. I’ve surveyed a few of my iPhone-toting buddies, and it looks like unmonitored users that browse and email as much as they would like, don’t seem to be using all that much data… at least not in GB/mo. I’ve heard in the year that they’ve had the phone, they seem to average 100-400MB of traffic a month, surprisingly. If you have a wireless network at work and home, I can see how it could be pretty easy to keep the rates darn low without even trying, using it just for the web browsing, email, and mapping on the go as much as you please. But if you ride the bus and love youtube, these prices it might be an issue.
***Question to Current iPhone users in the US***… how much data are YOU using per month? There’s a setting on your phone that shows the usage…toss it in the comments, let us in the Great White North know what we’re in for.
$60 Voice/Data
150 daytime + Unlimited Evenings/Weekends
400MB data
75 Sent text messages
Unlimited incoming text messages
Unlimited Voicemail
$75 Voice/Data
300 daytime + Unlimited Evenings/Weekends
750MB data
100 Sent text messages
Unlimited incoming text/voicemail
$100 Voice/Data
600 daytime + Unlimited Evenings/Weekends
1GB data
200 Sent text messages
Unlimited incoming text/voicemail
$115 Voice/Data
800 daytime + Unlimited Evenings/Weekends
2GB data
300 Sent text messages
Unlimited incoming text/voicemail
Pricing includes:
- unlimited Wi-Fi access at all Rogers and Fido Hotspots.
Two voice value packs:
$15/month: Caller ID, Who Called, Caller Ring Trax, 2,500 Sent Text Messages and 2,500 Call Forwarding Minutes
$20/month: 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.
The plans night be overpriced, but you know people will be going apeshit over the iPhone, anyway.
way. too. pricey.
:(
I have an iPhone in the UK, and even with unlimited data, I never go over 400MB. As a Canadian ex-pat, I can’t believe how outrageous mobile fees are compared to the US and the UK.
225MB Sent
1.5MB Received
You have to pay extra for voicemail ? caller ID?! i thought that was all standard nowadays…
It -is- insane. Having lived in Montreal for four years now, I still can’t get over how expensive the Rogers/Fido GSM monopoly is. I was so excited to finally have the iPhone offered here, and then these plans came out. I mean, really? 2008 and the cheapest you can offer is $60 for 400 megs?
I know online petitions aren’t exactly the Catalysts of Change they hope to be, but here’s a link, if you want to give ‘em a click-sig.
http://www.ruinediphone.com/
1.7 GB over a 11-month period.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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…