iPhone 3G Promotions

Did you sign the petition against Rogers Wireless yet? If you're one of those that would like to do it, but didn't manage to spare those minutes required for this, then I think you should think again! Don't get me wrong - I am not crazy about Rogers Wireless either, but it seems they are finally giving in to public pressure, so they announced a very interesting promotional plan for future iPhone 3G owners, as we're going to see right away...

Ladies and gentlemen, beloved future iPhone 3G owners, the news goes like this: the almighty Canadian mobile carrier, Rogers Wireless, together with its sub-brand Fido, decided to offer its potential subscribers to the available iPhone 3G service plans a serious data package. Why? Leaving aside the prices of the plans announced already, none of those had a serious amount of data included, so...what about iPhone 3G porn? Oh, no, it slipped...I wanted to say "what about business users of the iPhone in need of large data transfers," please believe me! ;)

The promotional plan for the iPhone 3G is being offered to those that are going to sign up for the Apple device before the end of August will have access to a $30 monthly plan that offers 6GB of data per month while purchased with any existing voice plan Rogers or Fido are already offering. Oh...so this is an ADDITIONAL PLAN? Not quite interesting, if you ask me. So, you get a voice plan, pay $30 more, and you receive for them just enough bandwidth to watch "nearly 105 hours of YouTube videos" per month, as Rogers claims. Great, just great!

Now, it should also be added that Visual Voicemail is considered separate from the data plan, and requires an additional $8 monthly payment, as will text messages. Obviously, you can still order these individually, or as part of "value packs," but in the end, I think you'll pay the price of a iPhone 3G every month...

I guess I should have said something more, but this is so outrageous, that I can't, so I'll leave Rogers Wireless in its misery, and move on to the European theatre of operations, where we find much better options.

For example, in Austria, T-Mobile offers a Classic plan, with 1,000 minutes of calling time to any mobile network, 3GB of data, Visual Voicemail, and free Wi-Fi, for a special $55 rate for the first 10,000 customers.

In Belgium, we have Mobistar, offering extremely expensive iPhone 3G phones($826 and $967 for the two models we all know about), with pretty poor service plans, too, starting at $47 - 180 minutes calling time, 300 text messages, and only 200MB of data.

Well, the war still rages on, and I think Rogers Wireless should look at the best offers currently announced to become available in some areas for the iPhone 3G, and do the right thing. I know they can do it, they only have to try harder!