Rogers New Wireless Rates Confirmed, No Word on ‘Unlimited Data’.

Click to zoom. Posted by Chantelle on January 29th, 2008 at 07:31pm Comments

Those hoping for rumors of Rogers new data rates being a hint towards the iPhone finally being available in Canada in the coming months may be disappointed. Although there has been no official word yet on whether Rogers will, in fact, be lowering data rates in the upcoming month, there are details that certain Value Packs will increase in cost starting February 5th for New, and March 4th for Existing, Customers.

The Communicate and Every Call Value Packs will increase in price by $1, while no changes to services provided are scheduled, confirmed a Customer Service Representative at Rogers this morning.

While there has been much speculation that Rogers would be lowering their rates by offering ‘unlimited data’ packages, there has been no official word the subject. Given the billing cycles of Rogers Customers they would have to be informed of any billing changes to existing packages at least 30 days in advance of any changes. The pricing and services offered in the alleged ‘New’ service packages would deem the above listed Communicate Value Package obsolete.

If the new services and pricing do show up on February 5, this would certainly put the spotlight on them for an upcoming iPhone Launch in Canada. However, given that they are releasing details about this particular increase, while no details are available about any new Data Service plans, it seems unlikely. iPhoneWorld.ca will continue to research into this mystery.

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calypso

Actually, they are introducing unlimited data for mobile devices. I have a $20 value pack that normally includes 5mb of data, but the new rogers brochures list unlimited data. There are catches of course, mainly that you can't use this with pdas, blackberrys, aircards, or when using your device as a modem. As well it only covers data that is used to access webpages, 3rd party apps (like google maps) is not included as well. This could be rogers way of allowing unlimited data on the iphone for cheap while making sure people with blackberrys and other data devices have to pay for their data.

Fedup_Cannuck

I have given up all hope of the iPhone ever appearing in Canada... at least not until version 2.0 (or at the rate things are going), version 2.5 show up.

To Rogers: Take off, eh? You're the worst carrier in Canada, how about lowering your rates, pushing out the iPhone and improving customer service? Maybe then we won't dislike you as much as we currently do.

To Apple Canada: Tell Rogers to "Take off, eh?" and think about releasing a CDMA iPhone instead since you'd have 3-4 carriers you could use vs. only Rogers if you stick with GSM.

This ticks me off to no end, the fact that almost every country in the World now has iPhones and we're stuck with sweet eff-all is unacceptable. Give us what we want dammit!

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