Telus today made a surprise announcement that it will be the first North American provider to carry the Touch Diamond, HTC's new flagship touchscreen phone.
Telus ships the Diamond later this summer and will sell it for $150 on a three-year contract; unlimited web, e-mail, and messaging on the device will be available for $30, while messaging alone costs $15.
Something someone posted on another forum struck me as funny:
KY could use July 11 as a real attention getting marketing vehicle. They could send out guerrilla marketeers to hand out free samples of KY. "If you are going to sign an iPhone contract, we'd like to help"
Rogers needs to wake up and realize that the majority of their customers are not idiots and can tell when they are getting good value for their spending and when they are being gouged for every penny they have. Prior to Rogers announcing the iPhone 3G Voice & Data plans Telus already started advertising on their website their $30.00 unlimited data plan for smartphones. I'm wondering if Rogers was completely blind to this fact or were they hoping consumers in Canada would not pick up on the value being offered by Telus compared to Rogers data plans? I would really love to see Rogers come up with a similar low priced unlimited data plan for all their smartphones instead of nickel and dime their customers with high priced data fees and data bandwidth caps.
Maybe $10 for unlimited data for the Instinct from Bell will show Rogers what a real data plan looks like.
The $10.00 unlimited data option from Bell you're referring to is for browsing on select sites stated by Bell, not for full HTML web browsing to any site you desire. Bell does have a competitor offer of $30.00 for unlimited data to any site including covering the data from application used on the device. This competitor offer is matching Telus who are advertising $30.00 for unlimited data on all smartphones.
All this bickering about the potential for profitability in Canada is pointless... the fact of the matter is that Rogers' profit in 2007 was up about 27% to a quarter billion dollars on a couple billion revenue. This is not a company that is hurting. And they already have infrastructure in place to handle unlimited data plans and reasonable SMS rates. The fact that they are raping their customers like this is simply them taking advantage of the lack of competition.
All this bickering about the potential for profitability in Canada is pointless... the fact of the matter is that Rogers' profit in 2007 was up about 27% to a quarter billion dollars on a couple billion revenue. This is not a company that is hurting. And they already have infrastructure in place to handle unlimited data plans and reasonable SMS rates. The fact that they are raping their customers like this is simply them taking advantage of the lack of competition.
Rogers hired additional sales staff to handle the iPhone launch, all of whom have been fired effective immediately
Apple has informed Rogers that they will be diverting a “large percentage” of their iPhone stock that was destined for Canadian shores, sending it instead to their European distributors. According to the rumor, this would leave Rogers with as few as 10-20 units per store for launch day.
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Bell has dived headfirst into the fray.
It takes a lot of incompetence to make Bell look good, but Rogers and Apple now look like profiteering idiots.
Maybe $10 for unlimited data for the Instinct from Bell will show Rogers what a real data plan looks like.
http://www.electronista.com/articles...ond.for.telus/
Telus today made a surprise announcement that it will be the first North American provider to carry the Touch Diamond, HTC's new flagship touchscreen phone.
Telus ships the Diamond later this summer and will sell it for $150 on a three-year contract; unlimited web, e-mail, and messaging on the device will be available for $30, while messaging alone costs $15.
Something someone posted on another forum struck me as funny:
KY could use July 11 as a real attention getting marketing vehicle. They could send out guerrilla marketeers to hand out free samples of KY. "If you are going to sign an iPhone contract, we'd like to help"
Maybe $10 for unlimited data for the Instinct from Bell will show Rogers what a real data plan looks like.
The $10.00 unlimited data option from Bell you're referring to is for browsing on select sites stated by Bell, not for full HTML web browsing to any site you desire. Bell does have a competitor offer of $30.00 for unlimited data to any site including covering the data from application used on the device. This competitor offer is matching Telus who are advertising $30.00 for unlimited data on all smartphones.
All this bickering about the potential for profitability in Canada is pointless... the fact of the matter is that Rogers' profit in 2007 was up about 27% to a quarter billion dollars on a couple billion revenue. This is not a company that is hurting. And they already have infrastructure in place to handle unlimited data plans and reasonable SMS rates. The fact that they are raping their customers like this is simply them taking advantage of the lack of competition.
nice if this is true:
boy genius
Rogers hired additional sales staff to handle the iPhone launch, all of whom have been fired effective immediately
Apple has informed Rogers that they will be diverting a “large percentage” of their iPhone stock that was destined for Canadian shores, sending it instead to their European distributors. According to the rumor, this would leave Rogers with as few as 10-20 units per store for launch day.