If any outside company can force one telco to lower prices(the others will follow), it's Apple. The iPhone will never come to Canada unless Rogers drops their data plans substaitially.
The day of cell phones may becoming to an end anyways. If Google buys the 700 mhz spectrum the telcos will be pooping in their pants.
Here's some background for those who don't know.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/22...sten-to-google