Rogers finally officially announced their mobile plans for the iPhone that is being released next month and even though this link isn’t hosted on the Rogers site it is linked to from the site in the announcement section.  Its official.

To sum it up

Note… from my understanding these prices don’t include such features as voicemail, caller ID etc.. so all that is extra.  You also must sign on for a 3 year contract.

This is very disappointing.  For some reason I actually thought they would come up with a plan that would give unlimited everything.  But I guess it was just a dream.

If I take the cheapest plan, I am heavily restricted.  If you were only doing email then 400MB is a lot of email.  But once you start going into the Internet hungry applications you can easily go over 400 MB.  Forget about such things as YouTube.  And don’t download all those attachments that you get forwarded to your email.  You will quickly find yourself over the limit while trying to use your iPhone for what it was made for.  Just wait until all of those fancy applications start to get released and they require data as well.  Who will be first to blog about their $800 Rogers bill.

The text messaging numbers are a joke.  The iPhone will be used heavily for this.  Most people can pass the 75 in a week.  I have a plan that allows 125 and I don’t really text a lot and I still find myself getting really close to that number.  Last month I did 123. 

Get into the more expensive plans and you will be a bit more safe but who wants to pay those prices.

Now.. if you take the 60$ plan.  Add on the system access fee, the taxes, add on a few long distance calls/texts and viola!!! Your now close to $100 on your bill.  Who wants to pay $100 a month for the next 3 years?

I have a strong feeling a lot of people may not jump at it right away.  However I still think they are going to do good sales. 

I don’t know if at this point they will even offer these plans for those of us that went and got the original iPhone from the states.  Rumor has it they won’t.

I’m sticking with my BB Curve for now and not even going to bother with the Bold.  They are going to want an arm for that phone.  See my other rant about my just trying to upgrade to the Curve.

I think they dropped the ball with this one.. but to them its not about customer satisfaction.  Its about maximizing profits.

Labels: iphone, mobile, rambling