Rogers sells 255k iPhones, adds 191k subscribers

oddest of all, at least to me, is requiring a three-year commitment to buy a device that comes with a one-year warranty.

I have to say I think it sucks that Rogers is taking advantage of the Canadian consumer the way they do (Yes, Bell and Telus are bad too). I'm all for a company making a healthy profit, but requiring people to pay obnoxious amounts of money for hardware AND agree to three year contracts makes them seem pretty shitty. Add crappy customer support on top of that and you have a perfect batch of alienated customers. If Rogers doesn't start making friendly with its customers, they will loose a lot of people to Bellus' (Bell/Telus) HSPA network and to whoever else pops up (AWS spectrum winners)

I can believe the numbers. I dumped Telus on the iPhone roll out day.

I was bombarded by Telus the months before with offers of free smart phones etc. Of course they used call centers from India and I could not understand a word of what they said which made the choice even easier.

After switching from Telus I was contacted not once but twice to take a survey to ask about why I dropped Telus (50/50 for the iPhone and Telus screwing me over in the past 10 years on various home phone / mobile phone / DSL products)

Rogers / Bell / Telus are all the same - I figured I may as well have an iPhone and let Rogers take a turn at screwing me over.

When Shaw enters the market then the game will really change...

Dan

As much as I would like to get an iPhone, I just simply refuse to pay that kind of dough per month. 191K of subscribers? I highly doubt it. If it is true... Then people will realise after a year, it was a stupid thing to do.

I tried to get the iPhone without the plan and they said it not allowed. I demanded to speak with their manager which made me wait 30 minutes so I just hung up. I heard you can get the phone without the data-plan but they would charge you over 500 bucks for the iPhone because the data-plan subsidies the overall cost of The phone. I think that completely bull****.

Keep it I say!

I just buy an iTouch For wireless at home and buy a full priced phone with Koodo which gives me unlimited text messages for an extra 5 bucks. So for 28 bucks a month and buying an iTouch I am still way further ahead than being suck with paying 100 bucks a month for the next three years!

Not only are Bell and Telus going LTE for 4G but they are collaborating with each other to roll out a nationwide HSDPA 3G network along side the existing EVDO 3G network and its supposed to be up and running by 2010, so who knows they may get the iPhone sometime soon.

And I thought they were selling iPhones for 255k...

Maybe I need some sleep.

I was an existing customer and had to cancel my contract to sign a new 3 year contract for the iphone. The $100/month bill really sucks considering I only use about 400MB of data a month. However, since they had that 6GB for $30.00 deal, it was the same price as the 300MB for $30.00 data plan. Regardless, if we manage to get another GSM carrier in Canada next year, if Rogers thinks I won't cancel my contract to switch to someone with lower rates, they are mistaken.

The Rogers data plan is an absolute travesty.

I find it hard to believe Rogers added 191K customers. Made 191K customers re-commit to a three year contract most likely.

yet again, rogers makes me mad... 33% increase in bill rate because of exclusivity, come on. and they just posted an 85% increase in profits this quarter after saying they needed to increase message rates to remain competitive. this is on top of their abysmal customer service record for internet and tv.
this is why i will not be pushing my company to rogers for the iphone, but to the bbry storm instead.
sorry if i sound angry, just really have had enough of rogers.