I just bought the HTC x7500 Advantage- (an Awesome device!) mainly for the WM6 and the huge screen. I have been hesitating on getting the phone and GPS working- since my only choice is Rogers. I did purchase a sim card, but haven't activated it yet because I have been confused and uncertain as to what I could get. Your information is more than I've been able to get out of the rogers people! thanks for the warning about the overage costs... that has not been mentioned. I've been with Telus for 14 years, but they are not at all in the running for this device.
Skype mobile also doesn't support it!- they haven't gotten it working for the Advantage, just the chat, and I would like to use the video camera for it.
I might just have to stick to the wifi, that lets me into the banking sites my that my Axim wouldn't.
Can you point us to this deal? The best I've seen from T-Mo in the Uk is around £22 a month (Flext 20 + web'n'walk on a 18 month contract). Ok that does include £34 allowance on calls - so it's a pretty good deal - but I'd rather pay £7.50!
You realise we're only talking about data charges - not calls as well? On T-Mobile in the UK that means £7.50 per month
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nb The deals I've seen are all subject to a fair usage policy as well. Actually they have three "unlimited" deals on their site at different prices! I believe they have 1gb, 3gb and 10gb limits on the fup. Again "not bad" but not really unlimited!
Of course there's a fair use cap - I'd be surprised if any company anywhere offered genuine uncapped data usage.
I am late one that bandwagon, but everything that I would have said, has been said. Next, Rogers is going to say that they have to charge that much because of the small size of Canada's population! I really don't know what business school most of the management must have gone to
to apply such inane and also insane pricing logic. And we thought that the Canadian chartered banks had a monopoly here!
Can you point us to this deal? The best I've seen from T-Mo in the Uk is around £22 a month (Flext 20 + web'n'walk on a 18 month contract). Ok that does include £34 allowance on calls - so it's a pretty good deal - but I'd rather pay £7.50!
You realise we're only talking about data charges - not calls as well? On T-Mobile in the UK that means £7.50 per month
Thanks, Duncan - you got there first. Yes, I was only talking about the data portion of my bill. I don't think that's unreasonable: People's call and text usage varies so enormously and nobody has come up with a flat rate for that. Yet!
As long as Canadians keep chaining themselves to Rogers under 3-year contracts just to get shiny new toys at so-called low prices, Rip-Off Rogers will continue to keep charging exhorbitantly high prices. The ONLY way they will lower their rates is if they lose customers. So, vote with your feet. Now that we have cell-number portability in Canada, we should actively seek out and reward the company with the lowest rates, and at the moment that company is Virgin Mobile Canada.
My voice plan with Virgin costs me $10/mo TOTAL cost (for 0 minutes, with each minute I use costing $0.10). I don't make many calls, so this the cheapest option. I purchased their new Samsung m510 phone and then the $10/mo. Tidal Wave UNLIMITED emails and browsing plan. I've download GMail's app and the Google Maps app. Sure, browsing on a small screen sucks, but the money I have saved in the past few months more than pays for the Wifi-equipped Eee PC I just bought for use whenever I stop in a wireless-equipped café. Hell, for $30-35/mo. I could have unlimited wireless internet at all the Hotspot locations in the country.
So people, it's up to you. Quit yer whinin' and punish Rogers. It's the only way they'll learn.
The issue is not Rogers, sure they are only GSM carrier in Canada.
The issue is that all wireless carriers in Canada are in collusion and no one can/will stop them.
No one will start a price war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe if MTS (oh, sorry, either Bell or Telus will buy them) or Quebecor buy spectrum and set prices on the basis of trying to make a fair profit, then the others will follow and lower data prices.
Look at the issue from the carriers standpoint, the only people whinning are the Prosumers who purchase PDA data devices and want to surf.
My opinion is that until Canadian Government let another entrant into Canada, Rogers, Telus and Bell will keep price high.
I also think the 3 carriers should offer 2 tier pricing, one for subsidized devices and another for BYOD (Bell and Telus need to open their networks as well like Sprint nextel and Verizon). This will allow prosumers who purchase unlocked devices/unsubsidized devices to get the best price for data plans.
I know the carriers can make money, Bell had had $60 unlimited data plans on special from time to time, if you are a business customer, you usually can get an unlimited plan based on pooled data.
The other option is to have a global carrier like TMobile or Vodafore come into Canada and disrupt pricing (ie $40 unlimited data in US from TMobile)
The other option is to write your MP and complain, if enough people complain to the Federal Government, maybe this will put pressure on Industry Canada Minister Jim Prentice to have CRTC add mobile to their portfolio.
Another option is to create a lobby of avid prosumers and lobby the Feds!!
Windows Mobile adoption is being crippled by the expensive data rate plans of Canadian carriers, and until they address the pricing issue, they're not going to see Windows Mobile smartphones selling as well as they could be.
Nice to see the failure of WM being blamed on high data prices. Never mind the bloated, bug-ridden, crash-prone code. Mobile data users the world over are indiscriminately shafted by the high prices. Whether you use a WM device or a real smartphone doesn't matter, you still pay the same ridiculous prices.
Thanks Jason,,for your continuing efforts
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