I have ranted on a few occasions about how Canadians get reamed with respect to wireless data plans, and their cost thereof (really high), particularly with *personal* inequity I feel about not having any unlimited data plans. This made sense in a sick sort of way; after all, how could anyone charge $15 for 2 megabytes with a $10/megabyte overage without requiring six figures for an “unlimited” data plan?
And yet — the unlimited data plan has finally come to Canada.
Seems like the heralding of the almighty Jesus phone iPhone to Rogers has forced its competitor Bell to bite the bullet and, in effect, blink. While its unclear exactly when the iPhone will be coming to Canada (surely not before Christmas), it seems like Bell wanted to get on top of the ball and offer something incredibly enticing — in effect, going “over the top”, in poker parlance, waiting for Rogers to try and top it.
You might love the iPhone for all kinds of reasons; I love it already because of the kind of “price war” this is going to start, which is a very *good* thing, as it has already put unlimited data on the table, which you can be _sure_ the other wireless carriers are going to have to match.
Which, again, is excellent. I mean, unlimited data should have been an option years ago — this isn’t 1997 after all.
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The plan isn’t all it’s crack(berry)ed up to be. It’s only for any cell phone that is not a smartphone (re: Blackberry) or PDA.
And still, the price makes using a Touch about 20% more expensive than that of comparable plans in the States!
I wrote up some more about this plan over at Torontoist if you’re interested in more info: http://torontoist.com/2007/11/bell_touches_us.php
Jaime Woo
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 pm | Permalink
Hey Jaime,
Thanks for the heads up. As for the Touch being 20% more expensive than the US, I think that’s about par, don’t you think? :)
Cheers
t