iwant iphone
July 22, 2007
Yes. Original title conveying a unique request…
i want i phone I NOW!!!
I find it ridiculous the data rates the cell carriers get away with charging us Canadians. Are you kidding me? And it is ROGERS DATAPLAN that is preventing the iphone from being launched here right now, as far as I can infer.
This is retarded. My brother is traveling S.E. Asia right now. That in itself is something to be moderately jealous of. However, he purchased a pay and talk GSM phone in malaysia, and some pay and talk minutes… roughly the equivalent of 20 bucks or so. He then called LONG DISTANCE – INTERNATIONAL to myself, my folks multiple times, grandparents, and i’m sure a few of his hoochies and or hoodrats, all for less than I can download 7MB a month.
SEVEN MB A MONTH COSTS US 40 FREAKING DOLLARS??? AND EVERY OTHER MB ON TOP IS 6 BUCKS?
and wow, the breakneck rate of 150kb transfer rates.
http://www.comparecellular.com/compare_data_rateplans.asp?l=&CarrierID=10
So, to review: a pay and talk cell in asia, w/ enough minutes to call at your leisure, your family located internationally, costs INCREMENTALLY LESS than our Canadian ability to download the equivalent of one decent mp3.
I believe Canada pays the highest data rates in the WORLD… and it’s this highway robbery that is preventing me from owning an iphone.
Listen guys… i’m BEGGING to give you like 600 freaking dollars, just so i can have the uber-coolness associated with owning the only phone with a user interface worth actually USING.
and how many products do you know of, that launch in the U.S., then the U.K. before Canada… I mean really.
I guess our only hope (our, referring to the increasingly annoyed GSM community of Canada, or iphone-ambition holding CDMA peeps) is for another carrier, one of the CDMA’s that is expanding into dual network support, OR a new GSM startup, to undercut the knob-gobblers in Rogers who REFUSE to lower the datarates to play ball with Apple’s iphone contract.
As the article on Canada.com from earlier this week argues; Consider the following hypothetical (but not unrealistic) situation: People, or another company, start up a cell phone company, offering GSM service, that contacts APPLE and agrees to what ever conditions apple is demanding of it’s GSM carriers.
If they did this, and launched… Canada would then have a fourth cell phone company overnight, as (i would guess) almost a million iphones would be sold in a short amount of time. I mean, considering how many sold in the U.S. (taking into account AT&T’s market share, and their numbers on sales released), the million Canadian iphone mark wouldn’t be that unrealistic, no?
*K i’m back from my dream and fantasy*
Anyway… I count thy days and hold my breath
bitter… iphone-less rob, out.
p.s. New article from financial post re: iphone.
p.p.s. Monday July 23rd article re: iphone.
>no turkeys were harmed in the production of this blogpost<
Hey Rob, nice site!
It is absolutely rediculous that we get so royally shafted when it comes to cell phone data rates. This partly stems from Rogers holding a GSM monopoly within Canada, and from the fact that the cost of Internet is generally higher in Canada than the US.
Take Shaw for example. Their “Nitro” which is $70 more per month, on top of the $40 regular high speed internet. That’s $110 per month for their fastest internet. Comparative speeds in the US would cost closer to $50 US / month.
T1 Internet. With Shaw, it is $5000 / month, plus cost of laying the line and maintenance of the lines. You can get a T1 line in the US for about $350US. An incredible difference.
I guess it has a lot to do with the capacity of the lines within Canada. Bell boasts their fastest lines being OC-12 (622mbps), whereas in the US, the data centre where my server runs into, just add over 5 new providers at 10gbps EACH!
At any rate, I agree. I want an iPhone, but Rogers needs to get their knife out of our backs, and their hands out of our pockets.
Cheers,
Brian