Bell and Rogers are engaged in a great Canadian wireless swindle! We’ll pay more for an iPhone. We’ll swallow incoming text message fees and won’t question System Access Fees. We’ll even idle our cars an hour at the drive-thru for Tim Horton’s coffee then bitch about the price of gas. Are we a nation of [...]

Canadians are already saddled with the highest usage fees for mobile phones in the world. But it’s not enough for the proprietors of Canada’s CDMA network, Bell and Telus. The mobile phone companies have decided that you need to pay 15 cents for every incoming text messages. Could Rogers see a new wave of customers [...]

Apple claims to have sold a million new iPhones over the first weekend it was available and sold 10 million downloads for the Apple Smartphone. But are these numbers padded just a little?
Apple is boasting 1 million new iPhones sold in the first weekend. Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave his own victory speech touting “Mission [...]

The lambs of Apple lined up at Rogers stores across Canada last Friday to get their hands on the new must have accessory. Like a bra for a sagging self-image, the iPhone makes many Canadians feel relevant again. But shortages and service problems dogged Rogers big day beneath the Apple glow.

Tomorrow is the big day for iPhone 3G shoppers! The revamped phone will launch at Rogers stores all over Canada. Rogers even has an eleventh hour special - a significant 6GB data plan add-on to your pricey voice plan. It sounds like somebody that walked out of a closed-door meeting with Apple had a serious [...]

Canadian’s may not be the only ones pissed-off at Rogers for its outrageous pricing and extended service contract for iPhone. According to a recent Rogers iPhone rumor, Apple is throwing its weight behind the Canada-wide indignation by starving the carrier of units.
The rumor hit the Smithereens blog over the weekend in a post entitled “Apple [...]

Yesterday, US iPhone carrier announced it would cut a deal for consumers on Apple’s upcoming wonder-phone with no contract. AT&T said it would deal the 8GB model for $599 and the 16GB model for $699. That could be great news for Canadians.
Not much else is known about the deal. AT&T spokesmen said Tuesday it’s has [...]

Canadians are denied an unlimited wireless data plan! Not for your phone, not for my phone, and definitely not for iPhone. Canadians simply don’t get unlimited wireless data plans, Wayde-I-am. You can use 3G data rates if you must. You can use your 3G data rates on a bus.
But you’ll have to choose one Rogers plan, [...]

Rogers must think Canadians are real jack-asses. Why else would it offer the world’s worst iPhone deal? Canadians are set to pay more than anyone else on the planet for Apple’s new wonder-phone.
While carriers of other nations will offer the new iPhone with two-year contracts or less, Rogers gives Canadians the longest contract in the [...]

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