News: iPhone piracy in Canada, Rogers robs Canadians again

The outrage is obvious and visible. With users on Twitter and elsewhere so angry and upset that you could cut the tension from the air.

Rogers’ proposed fees for iPhone packages - Pssst these packages are only for those idiots willing to sign up for a 3 year contract.

Monthly Fee	$60	$75	$100	$115
Weekday Minutes Included	150	300	600	800
Evenings and Weekend	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited
Evenings are from 9 p.m to 7 a.m Monday to Friday and Weekends are from 9 p.m Friday to 7a.m Monday	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited
Data Included	400MB	750MB	1GB	2GB
1MB= 1,024 KB 1GB=1,024MB	400MB	750MB	1GB	2GB
Bonus Sent Text Messages	75	100	200	300
Visual Voicemail - New with iPhone	Included
Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages, so you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.	Included
Access to Rogers Wirelessand Fido Hotspots	Unlimited
Additional Weekday Minutes(per minute)	35¢	35¢	25¢	15¢
Additional Data	50¢ per MB for the first 60 MB, 3¢ per MB thereafter

iPhone does not include in any of these criminal price plans Call Display for that you need to pay an extra $10.

What people are saying around on the web particularly Canadians:

David Gehring from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada writes: Too expensive, I think I’ll stick with a Palm Treo.

Winston Smith from Canada writes: 3 year lock-in is communist! Only in Canada where the government allow monopolies to rein free.

Jay Sherman from Ottawa, Canada writes: In the US, AT&T has an unlimited data plan for $35/month. Here in the land of the screwed, we can’t even get one for $115/month. Technology in this country is a joke as long as this pathetic oligopoly exists.

Directeur (a Foreigner) writes: Wow! I will NEVER be able to pay that, and if ever I could, I won’t ! that’s robbery

Andrew Ion from Toronto, Canada writes: Let’s think about this with numbers:

$60.00 - Price plan
$00.50 - 911 Access fee
$06.95 - System Access fee
$15.00 - Caller ID

$82.45 - Sub Total

$04.13 - GST (it’s actually $4.1225, but we’ll round up)
$06.60 - PST (it’s actually $6.596, but we’ll round up)

$10.73 - Total Taxes

$93.18 - Complete Monthly Total. For 3 years.

That is nearly $3600 over the life of the contract so I guess the real question should be buy a car or get the iPhone?

*Update: There is a petition apparently and they are at about 6,000 signatures.. Check it out - RuinedmyiPhone.

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