Would Rogers offer unlimited iPhone data plans in Canada?

Posted by james on May 30th, 2008 at 10:03pm Comments

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Just recently Rogers Wireless announced that it will carry the iPhone in Canada (although iPhone World reported on the same thing a long time ago).

Now, analysts are speculating whether Rogers will be forced to offer more sane, or even unlimited, data transfer rates for Canadian iPhone users instead of the usual arm-and-a-leg price of 5 cents per kb (for example, iPhoneWorld.ca’s iPhone optimized frontpage takes over 100kb to load — you can do the math how much it’d cost at current data rates).

AT&T had to do it, argues Lawrence Surtees, VP of IDC Canada in an interview to ITBusiness.ca. “[That's why] that’s going to happen with Rogers,” he predicts, and that will “shake things up in the wireless data market [in Canada].”

While after communicating extensively with Rogers in news editor capacity and using their services as a customer this writer thinks that it’s pure fiction, here’s to hoping, right?

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1. Rogers New Wireless Rates Confirmed, No Word on ‘Unlimited Data’.
2. iPhone in Canada: Rogers lowering data rates
3. Unlimited Data in Canada for the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch
4. Rogers unveils unlimited on-device mobile browsing plan in Canada: iPhone not far away?
5. Fido / Rogers bring back the 6GB / $30 iPhone data plan in Canada!

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