Rogers announces iPhone 3G Voice and Data Packages
For those of you who haven’t seen:
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voice_data_packages
Who’s the idiot that decided that these prices are justifiable? I would like to meet this person and tell them that a retarded dog could make a better decision.
As you can probably tell, I’m frustrated about this, and that’s putting it lightly. Why? These prices are rediculous. Rogers is the number one reason for why Canada is the most well-off country with some of the worst technology in the world. Why should we have to pay $60 dollars for a plan that comes with 400mb of data, when if I lived just south of the border, the same plan on AT&T would cost me the same price for UNLIMITED data? We aren’t very far from the border, are we?
Rogers consistenly disappoints me, and the rest of Canada. This company is the reason we have phones that came out two years ago in China, they are the reason developement for the mobile platform in Canada is extremely low, and they are the reason for us falling back in competition with countries such as Japan and Germany in the fastest growing industry.
You can’t place the the blame soly on Rogers though, a huge reason for the failure we see is due to the Canadian government, two dictates which companies can provide us with telephone services. Now, don’t be fooled by companies such as Koodo, Fido, Bell, and all those other phone companies. They are all either Rogers or Telus. Koodo? Telus. Fido? Rogers. Bell? Telus. When is the government going to wake up and realize that this socialist bullshit is hurting both the consumer and the industry to a point where our technology is vastly inferior to most of the worlds leading countries.
I was going to buy an iPhone, but after seeing these prices, I can’t bring myself to pay such vast amounts of money. $60 dollars, and another $15 to essentially get call display, and the bullshit system access fee, and then tax. ~$100? No thanks. It is an amazing product, but if the USA can do the pricing right, why can’t we? I’m hoping that the iPhone sells so poorly that they will be forced to change their rates, because at this point, I won’t have an iPhone in the foreseeable future.
That’s right Rogers, I hope you fail. I hope you fail so hard that you’re CHILDREN will feel it. And THEIR children! Oh wait, we’re talking about a company here. Whatever, go burn Rogers, you bastard.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Actually Bell and Telus are just merged or something crazy like that. Technically they’re two companies, but essentially they must share some sort of profits so in reality they count as one. So yeah, 2 companies FTL. We need some competition up in this joint.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 am
Bell and Telus essentially split the country in half they each provide networks to each other in their respective areas. Telus provides the towers out here for bell and bell provides the towers out east. So that the upkeep cost is lower but the overall coverage is higher.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I do not understand Canada’s problem with wireless either. I am a high school social studies teacher in BC. My class recently did a research report on the wireless industry around the world. They found, which we already know, that Canada has the most expensive wireless rates in the world. I am hoping that a small company will come along and beat up on the greedy Telus and Rogers. Any word on the recent spectrum auction?