NEW BB Data Plans from Rogers

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revenge_taker05

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any updates on Rogers data plan? When can we ever get $30 CAD (like $19.99 for TMO) for unlimited data *sigh*

or y can't TMO supply us for data... after all do data bounce from the towers or is it a satalite thing?
 
well rogers own fido as well so only thing we have is bell and telus who dont offer as great of service and phones, so i dont think they are too worried, FIDO offers awsome voice plans yet **** phones, and rogers expencive yet wicked mobile handsets so they willl get loaded of u either way.

EDIT: omg i just realized, for 25 CAD = 19.99 USD we get .5 mb
thats right not a misstype half a megabyte
 
haha that .5mb won't last long, I got my first bill couple weeks ago and I over by 6500kb X_X so I called them up right after xmas and upgraded to 50mb for $65
 
Oiy. I just got the Pearl for Christmas and was really excited to do some web surfing and Maps usage... but with the prices that Rogers is offering, it isn't worth it.
 
The $90 unlimited data/350 day/unlimited nonpeak plan actually compares pretty well to comparable price plans in the UK. But given how high the Rogers data costs are, I wonder how many Cdn customers (with access to US billing addresses) get a T-Mobile or Cingular plan with unlimited international data and use their Blackberry sparingly for calls. You could even divert from a VOIP number to have a local incoming number. But the cost of paying international rates for incoming and outgoing calls might sabotage the whole strategy if you ended up using the Blackberry as a phone more than occasionally.
 
Hey GeneKamG is my old acount...tahts waht it was :S, and is there anywasy to get t-mo if canada, because 20 for unlimited and 20 for unlimited roaming, still comes out cheaper then BB plans here in canada.
I am forced to do all my downloads with BB simulator, and after upload them to my real phone, its sad, but im a smart consumer
 
For those of you who mentioned having the 25mb plan and worried of going over, dont forget you can double you data for $5... so for $5 more you get 50mb, saves a lot of money!
 
I just got the 50mb plan for $65. Oretty good deal considering we are already being raped by Rogers. I would take advantage of this offer now if you can, it wont be around much longer and if it does stay they will require you to renew for 3 years. Take it for a bit and cancel it after the fact..
 
Canadian wireless plans are absolute hell, a) we pay a ton more for voice b) we get destroyed on data rates.

to the person who appeals to RIM for help: they don't have much ground in it, but the COO of RIM was in the papers releasing statements about how carriers are killing wireless progress and hurting RIM with the absolutely ridiculous prices, especially so in Canada. im sure that if Rogers and Belus dropped their pricing to American levels even, there would be a huge boom in BB sales. In waterloo (I live in RIM HQ) everyone's got BBs but they are all data-plan free and the phones are got super cheap because they are hookups from friends who work in RIM. I'm sure that they would all be faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more likely to get a legitimate phone/plan combo if they weren't going to be paying $500 signup/phone costs and then $150 per month thereafter.. or whatever you guys pay
 
Although Im sure they have a ''preferred'' provider for the service all the carriers provide blackberry service, so any of then could do it...and yes they do offer Unlim data, lol, long as your account is actually a RIM executive account or a general RIM employee account which gets written off by RIM anyways..but to the average consumer, no..unlim data is just a myth here.
 
And another thing to point out with Rogers, their foot print aint big enuff to handle all the data that would be used if they launched a killer data plan that everyone wanted, think if they unleashed a $29.99 Ulim BIS with Internet..ppl would jump on that like a fat kid on a smartie and then where would we be,lol, we'd be complainin' about not being able to access it cause it be too overloaded..this is the reasonable sense to it but still...I'm all for it lmao they got the money to upgrade their network.
 
Dont know if any one mentioned this but I was talking with rogers a couple weeks ago about data plans and I was on the 350 day time ulimited nights/weekends and 25mb = $95/month. They told me that they had a new plan out for the same price and it included an extra 25mb for a total of 50mb/month. Rogers swithced it over no questions asked. I know its not unlimited or anything but its a step in the right direction. Blackberry should step up to Rogers and demand that they release an unlimited data plan. Apple did it with AT&T and the Iphone (not to mention a none branded phone). Blackberry needs to grow some balls especially since RIM is a Canadian company. Why are all of us loyal BB users gettin hosed for our data.
 
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