Tired of waiting for iPhone in Canada? There’s ways to get your fix.

Are you tired of seeing your American and European friend enjoying the iPhone, while Canadians can’t? It seems there is always a solution. After all, there is nothing a resourceful person, like you, couldn’t do.

First of all, you already have to be a Rogers customer. Remember that it is the only mobile service provider in Canada which supports iPhone’s EDGE network.

However, beware, since Rogers charges pathetically high data transfer rates (compared to Europe), and if you plan to use too much bandwidth, you will have a surprise bill to pay at the end of the month. So if you browse the net too much, your wallet will not be happy to empty itself.

Since you can’t buy an iPhone in an Apple or Rogers store, one will have to use other methods. Now, getting and unlocked iPhone is not a problem. There are plenty of them selling on eBay or other auctions, rather inexpensively ($400-$500). But keep in mind that there will not be any support in case your phone decides to malfunction.

You can also buy a locked iPhone, but then there is this whole unlocking thing, which you can do either yourself or find a shop where they will do it for you rather reasonably. It is interesting to note that from 1.4 million sold in USA by AT&T, around 250,000 are not being used on its network, according to Apple.

Just remember before buying, that Canada tends to charge 10% of the declared value for the duty fees. One can ask seller to declare the shipment as a smaller value, but it is a risk, since doing so is not quite legal and your iPhone might be seized. If you are lucky you will just have to pay extra.

So, once you have your iPhone ready and unlocked, just slip your mobile phones SIM card to your newly acquired device and ta-da, you’ve got an almost fully functioning device. Some services won’t work which require AT&T’s network specifically (if you bought iPhone from USA), like the “visual voice mail” feature. But it won’t matter to you since you’ve got plenty of other features to explore!

However if you are not as eager to go to such extremes, wait you shall!

Tags: app, Apple, AT&T, Canada, case, Europe, iPhone, News, OS, Rogers, unlock, USA

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