Comments on: Unlimited Mobile Data Coming to Canada? Not So Fast, Soldier. http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/09/20/unlimited-mobile-data-coming-to-canada-not-so-fast-soldier/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:25:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: engtech http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/09/20/unlimited-mobile-data-coming-to-canada-not-so-fast-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-77711 engtech Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:00:49 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/09/20/unlimited-mobile-data-coming-to-canada-not-so-fast-soldier/#comment-77711 A friend asked me at a party last night when I'd be getting an iPhone. I mentioned that I never buy anything before 3rd gen (as proven by my 40gb iPod without photo/video support). Then we had a good chuckle at how useless the iPhone would be in Canada because you'd never get a good data rate plan. Rogers still wants to charge you by 5kb downloaded. We're Siberia of the mobile world. I wish the iPod Touch (or whatever it's called) had VOIP, it would have been perfect for the Canadian telecom situation. A friend asked me at a party last night when I’d be getting an iPhone. I mentioned that I never buy anything before 3rd gen (as proven by my 40gb iPod without photo/video support).

Then we had a good chuckle at how useless the iPhone would be in Canada because you’d never get a good data rate plan. Rogers still wants to charge you by 5kb downloaded. We’re Siberia of the mobile world.

I wish the iPod Touch (or whatever it’s called) had VOIP, it would have been perfect for the Canadian telecom situation.

]]> By: Warning: bitchy Canadian telecom post » mathewingram.com/work http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/09/20/unlimited-mobile-data-coming-to-canada-not-so-fast-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-76887 Warning: bitchy Canadian telecom post » mathewingram.com/work Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:09:42 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/09/20/unlimited-mobile-data-coming-to-canada-not-so-fast-soldier/#comment-76887 [...] It’s all well and good that our dollar officially hit parity with the U.S. greenback today, but it sure would be nice if we could get something approaching real competition in the mobile telecom market in Canada. Then maybe certain carriers who shall remain nameless — but whose names start with a B and rhyme with “hell” — wouldn’t be able to pull stuff like this. [...] [...] It’s all well and good that our dollar officially hit parity with the U.S. greenback today, but it sure would be nice if we could get something approaching real competition in the mobile telecom market in Canada. Then maybe certain carriers who shall remain nameless — but whose names start with a B and rhyme with “hell” — wouldn’t be able to pull stuff like this. [...]

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