Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please.
Rogers just credited me back the $57.55 they charged me today for just over 1 MB of data on my phone:
I didn’t have a plan for data but, ouch.
I’m not going to judge Rogers for this, but, to quote my friends:
what a cash grab..
yikes
and:
holy x*#@
And I said to customer service:
I had already told you (in November) to block that service
Meanwhile, we’re happy to see that Virgin now have a $0 monthly charge, 25c plan for their service. Perfect, for my mother-in-law and my wife who seldom use their phones.
Ah. The joys, of Local Number Portability. Now, at last. In Canada. (The UK had portability since 1999)
Maybe all these dissatisfied but no longer trapped customers will attract Vodaphone and Orange to come play in Canada now?
March 12th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Thanks to Rannie for mentioning:
http://www.oshawapilot.ca/?p=439
In particular, T-mobile in the US charge $19.99 for unlimited data to my Treo.
Canadian rip-off? Yup. Go figure.
March 12th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
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March 12th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Sounds like Rogers thinks they have a monopoly on mobile phones? Ummm, does only GSM carrier count as a monopoly?
March 13th, 2007 at 7:13 am
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2004/11/08/rogers_110804.html reports on the acquisition. I’m pretty sure that the acquisition would have been prohibited by the government had it occurred in the U.K. for exactly monopoly reasons.
Most of the world operates on GSM http://www.usagewatch.org/usage_of_mobile_phones/index.html - and http://www.itu.int/itunews/issue/2003/06/thirdgeneration.html reminds me - what’s happening with 3G in this country and where will each Canadian “competitor*” play in this field?
* I use the term “competitor” lightly.
April 9th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
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