No iPhones for Canadian Retail Stores
It appears that the iPhone hype will not translate over to Canadian Apple Retail Stores because Rogers Wireless, the service carrier originally planning to debut the iPhone 3G, offered up an unreasonably limited wireless plan.
Rogers Wireless plans to lock subscribers into long-term 3-year contracts that require a minimum plan of $60 for 150 minutes, 75 text messages, and 400MB of data. A representative for Apple claims that the service plans were not the reason for canceling shipment to its Canadian stores. However, Apple’s reaction could’ve been motivated by public outrage from Canadian consumers furious over the company’s pricing plans.
The Canadian service provider has released official statements claiming that the majority of international carriers have capped data and unlimited data plans usually charge customers more for what they don’t use.
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petoe35121
July 09, 2008 at 11:15am
But they will still have them at Rogers stores on July 11th am I right?
maclover
July 09, 2008 at 12:37pm
As far as I know Apple hasn't released any information about a switch to another company, the real problem is Canada is quite far behind in it's technology, in other words no 3G anyway with any phone company.
(and yes they will be there on July 11th)
Never mind they just switched the price for a monthly rate of $30 a month!
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