Pluses and minuses of living in Canada
Minus: Putting up with second rate mobile phone companies.
This week us Canadians are sitting here watching America go crazy for the iPhone (launching at 6pm this Friday). You’d think now would be the perfect time for Rogers to announce a release schedule for Canada. But no, silence. To rub salt in the wounds we all got a nice look at the AT&T/iPhone rate plans announced yesterday. They are about half the price of a regular Blackberry plan in this country and they include unlimited data transfer!!
Comparison…
AT&T iPhone plan: $59.99 (USD)
- 450 daytime minutes
- 5000 nights and weekends
- Unlimited mobile to mobile
- Unlimited data
- 200 text messages
Rogers Blackberry plan: $112.95 ($90 + $6.95 system access + $6 text plan)
- 350 daytime minutes
- Unlimited nights and weekends
- 25 MB data
- 125 text messages
Today’s USD exchange rate: 0.94
Tom had a great post a couple of months ago detailing our fate as Canadian mobile data consumers. It’s not pretty.
The cult of Mac is officially out of control
So, some guy snaps a picture of Steve Jobs at his kids soccer game, possibly speaking on an iPhone. He uploads the photo to flickr and it gets 90,000 views in 3 days! Madness.
About Pema Hegan
A Kiwi living in Canada.
I love music, obsess over architecture and miss the ocean.
I'm a partner and managing director at Rethink Toronto.
Before Rethink, I founded and then sold GigPark (a social web startup), and was the founding editor-in-chief of Dose.
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