07-09-2008, 10:19 AM
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#521
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Calgary
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saweet, makes it maybe possible now
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07-09-2008, 10:27 AM
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#522
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by calculoso
In addition to these, there are currently 4 phones on Rogers with the 3G capability (sort the available phones by "High Speed Mobile Internet"):
- LG TU915 VU
- Nokia N95
- Samsung A736
- Samsung A746
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Aha! I had no idea about the other ones. Awesome, then!
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07-09-2008, 10:56 AM
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#523
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Yup, that pretty much does it for me then. I will be getting an 3G iPhone. Probably not on the 11th, since there probably wont be enough stock. But in the next couple weeks for sure.
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07-09-2008, 10:57 AM
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#524
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Advantages of Fido is per-second billing, earlier evenings for free evenings and weekends..
Disadvantage, as you say is pay a fee to access the Rogers network, which may or may not be necessary. Fido also doesn't offer a My5 type thing.
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Anyone know if I can get the "new activation" packages on Fido if I'm an existing Rogers customer?
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07-09-2008, 10:59 AM
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#525
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Here
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Would love to get an iPhone now...but just upgraded to a BB Pearl in April, so I will be waiting for a couple of years 
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07-09-2008, 11:34 AM
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#526
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by arsenal
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6GB is effectively unlimited. You would have to be in the top 1% of data users to go over 6GB in a month.
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07-09-2008, 11:58 AM
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#527
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God of Hating Twitter
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So are we still looking at around $100 a month with Rogers for the new plan with 6GB?
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07-09-2008, 12:07 PM
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#528
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by teamchachi
6GB is effectively unlimited. You would have to be in the top 1% of data users to go over 6GB in a month.
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Yah, i saw that after. That would be more than enough.
The 400mb plan was a joke.
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07-09-2008, 12:08 PM
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#529
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Thor
So are we still looking at around $100 a month with Rogers for the new plan with 6GB?
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$30 for 6gig data + voice plan + VM (visual voice mail) + any thing else you want. So you are probably looking at around $70-$90 / month for most users.
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07-09-2008, 12:11 PM
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#530
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Chilliwack, B.C
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Quote:
Originally Posted by llama64
So you're saying that it's perfectly fine for a company to expect it's customers to buy a texting package that they don't use just to avoid having to pay fees related to unsolicited text messages? The sales guys must love you.
Do we have to pay for every letter we receive in the mail? No, the cost is covered by the postage paid by the sender. The same should be true in cellular market. Unless you can some how invent a reason why sending a text message is more costly then physically moving a piece of mail.
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You pay for incoming texts in the US ROGERS will do the same in know time, nothing wrong with paying for what you use, people that text have features anyways to cut down the cost
nothing is free in this wourld people have to get out of this entitlement attitude
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07-09-2008, 12:26 PM
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#531
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Damn, why did they have to do that. Now I want it.
Anyone know if they will honor a retention voice plan for a hardware upgrade?
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07-09-2008, 12:29 PM
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#532
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Chilliwack, B.C
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
FWIW, I saw a Telus rep on the news last night say 'Clients will not be charged for spam texts'. Not sure how they decide what is spam and what isn't...
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Spam texts don't have phone numbers they have codes
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07-09-2008, 12:37 PM
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#533
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Franchise Player
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I can't believe an internet petition actually worked...
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07-09-2008, 12:39 PM
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#534
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Burninator
I can't believe an internet petition actually worked...
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They won't say it did though... they'll call it market research on their part.
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07-09-2008, 01:01 PM
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#535
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: /dev/null
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Quote:
Originally Posted by calgaryred
You pay for incoming texts in the US ROGERS will do the same in know time, nothing wrong with paying for what you use, people that text have features anyways to cut down the cost
nothing is free in this wourld people have to get out of this entitlement attitude
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All I'm saying is that charging for received messages makes no business sense. Increase the charge for sending them if you have to, but don't punish people for receiving things they have NO CONTROL over.
Besides, it's much easier to increase the cost to send then it is to try and implement some method of blocking incoming messages for users. Overall, it's just a dumb idea from any angle.
Last edited by llama64; 07-09-2008 at 01:03 PM.
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07-09-2008, 01:03 PM
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#536
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Victoria, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Wow, I can't believe they caved.
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You and me both. Really shows what people in numbers can accomplish. Chalk this up as a victory for the little guy. I'm so happy right now. 6GB is essentially unlimited.
EDIT: ^^^That is a whole bunch of small sentences...Clumped together awkwardly.
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07-09-2008, 01:07 PM
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#537
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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I really love being the pessimist, but I'm pretty sure within 6 months, this will probably be the norm ($30/6GB) on all data plans, since they're showing their cards that it is possible for them to offer it. Promo, domo, who cares. I'll be waiting for the Bold myself.
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07-09-2008, 01:11 PM
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#538
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
They won't say it did though... they'll call it market research on their part.
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Market research as in "If we don't lower our prices, no one will buy our phone."
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07-09-2008, 01:21 PM
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#539
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Chilliwack, B.C
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
You and me both. Really shows what people in numbers can accomplish. Chalk this up as a victory for the little guy. I'm so happy right now. 6GB is essentially unlimited.
EDIT: ^^^That is a whole bunch of small sentences...Clumped together awkwardly.
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Its only for a limited time its not going to be forever, its just to appease the Apple users, the iphone is a fad, a ton of phones are being released in the summer and fall that do more than the iphone and look just as cool
most clients are getting the iphone cause its the in thing, after the orignal release happens and canadian clients get the same shock as americans do with the iphone it will settle.
looking forward to seeing how Canadians react when they get issues and have to send the phone to apple having no phone for 2 weeks
Warranty with that device is very different no loaners for apple users 
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07-09-2008, 01:32 PM
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#540
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Might be impossible to get one anyway, the Fido store at Chinook says they're getting maybe 30 phones...
I think they'll extend this to be their permanent plan if they see that the demand is there and their network can handle it.
And replacement phones don't matter, I use GSM because I like to change my phone a lot, so I don't get replacement phones anyway.
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