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So, I’m sure most of you know, Rogers announced a 6GB plan for the iPhone for $30 a month. I’d say that’s pretty decent. Although its not unlim­ited, appar­ently AT&T caps peo­ple at 5GB a month south of the boarder, so really this price is quite fair. Now, although this is a great step in the right direc­tion, it just shows you how much of an greedy com­pany Rogers is when they boost there equiv­a­lent data plan from 400mb to 6gb. Its clear they had more band­width then any­one could imag­ine, yet they still decided (ini­tially) to try to squeeze us out of every dollar.

So, I was going to get an iPhone, but there is a lit­tle prob­lem I have, which is the fact that I’m going to Europe for 8 months, and thus would need to pause my account if I wanted to get an iPhone on a (ridicu­lous) three year plan. I assumed this wouldn’t be a prob­lem, as I would request the pay­ments to pause, not skip out on 8 months of pay­ments, I know Rogers wants every penny of those 36 months that I would be sign­ing up for. So I phoned in today, just to make sure they would be able to acco­mi­date such a request, but apper­ently, this is a “fea­ture” that they aren’t able to acco­mo­date. What the fuck are they talk­ing about? How can you not pause an account for a cer­tain period of time? Its not like they are going to lose any money at all. Apper­ently my only option would be to pay for the bare-minimum each month while I’m gone, even though I’m not using the phone. What kind of bull­shit is that? Once again, fuck you Rogers, you are absolutely fuck­ing useless.

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.