Comments on: iPhone Canada: Pay me now, or pay me later

By: dignon

dignon — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:55:25 +0000

I have an iPhone in Canada that's been jailbroken and on an unlimited data plan with Fido for a couple months. I was totally upfront with them about the fact it was an iPhone and they assured me I won't be charged any extra -and so far, I haven't. The unlimited data added about $7 to my bill. Rogers has similar packages.

By: Tanya (aka NetChick)

Tanya (aka NetChick) — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:17:05 +0000

I bought / jailbroke and did some “other hacking” of my iPhone for use on the Rogers network only weeks ago. The upside is that I pay very little for data because of all the research I did, but the downside is that I now have to sell my phone in a hurry because I *know* the 3G phone is coming in June, and Rogers wouldn't be bringing in the iPhone without that service. It wouldn't make any sense.

Visual voicemail, here I come… And not worrying every month that Rogers might figure out what I've done. *sigh*

By: mathewi

mathewi — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:58:03 +0000

I hope you are right, Jake — but I have had my hopes dashed before.

As for launching with the 3G, see above :-)

By: calamityjake

calamityjake — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:06:33 +0000

AT&T's data plans for the iPhone are surprisingly reasonable–it was notably cheaper than the standard data plans when it first came out (I think the price may have pushed down other phone/provider data plans since then). I have heard bad things about Rogers, but I expected AT&T data plans to be prohibitively expensive, too. So I hope for my frozen northern cousins' sake that Apple “persuades” Rogers not to screw its customers in this case.

PS: Think there's any chance that Rogers will be launching with the 3G iPhone?

By: lance38

lance38 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:41:59 +0000

I'm in the same boat but I don't regret it quite as much. NewsBreak, email, and Opera Mobile work well. Voice quality on the HTC Touch is awful though. I rarely talk on the thing so it's not a huge deal to me.

I do miss having a keyboard on my phone. I should've gotten a Telus blackberry.