Rogers allows iPhone tethering in Canada for no extra charge until 2010

Rogers customer care told me that they won't allow tethering to those customers who were original iphone purchasers with 6 gig plans unless we upgrade our data plans and pay for the 6 gigs separately from our voice plans. In other words, pay more for the same amount of service to get access to "free" tethering until the end of the year. Ironically, I wanted to pay voice and data separately when I first purchased the phone and was told it wasn't allowed. So much for the good will theory - Rogers is biting the hand that paid them first on this product. The outcome is, I need an internet stick for access to the internet away from home/office - I'll be looking to Bell for that product.

Never in a million years will Rogers offer reasonable service for a reasonable price. My guess is that they will retroactively charge us for any tethering. This is a company that "accidentally" charged me $1200 extra for cell service one month, then put me on hold for 2 hours, then charged me $50 for the privilege of viewing my old phone bills.

I pray for the day when ANY other carrier supports the iPhone, so I can say goodbye to Rogers forever. Good riddance.

I pay $30/mo for my 6GB plan. I use less than 100MB/mo under normal iPhone usage, that leaves me with 5.9GB unused every month. I bought my iPhone last September so that means I've used around 53 of the 54GB traffic I've paid for, nowhere near the "limit". I plan on tethering and no, I don't want their "free" RocketStick (which they called me about on a promo call last week, thanks for nothing Rogers) when I already have a perfectly good iPhone and a data plan that can do the same thing. If Rogers starts billing me extra for the ability to do so, I'm going to call them up and tell them to go fvck themselves.

I will be surprised if Rogers doesn't try to chisel customers out of some cash once the policy changes.

I'm thrilled that tethering is an option though! I'll be using it up at the cottage all summer!

I'd say the truth is closer to #3. I don't buy that they're turning over a new leaf (I need to see a pattern before assuming they've gone "good"). Also, they probably figure with a capped data plan, you're more likely to max out if you're tethered to a computer than just on an iPhone and thereby more likely to be slapped with additional charges.

I talked to a Fido Rep this week, she said that the way she understood from what she was told, after December this year it will only cost extra for those who are activating in January. Those with 1GB+ Data plan between now and December will be able to use their tethering for no extra charge!

Amazing! Tethering works, perfectly.

I'm writing this comment on my Mac connected to my iPhone with BlueTooth. The mac is also syncing with Mobile Me while I'm writing and all this flawlessly. I have a 6Gb/month data plan with my carrier Fido (owned by Rogers) so I don't bother.

Should I be proud to be Canadian with this? Bah! But I sure love this millennium ;)

Not only are they being nice on the tethering, they're also coming up with a reasonably decent upgrade policy. It really makes me suspicious...

Wow the sucker train doesn't just start and end in the states, it's spreads like wild fire.

they are doing this in hopes people will go over their limit and be charged with bandwidth overage fees. canadian isps love making money in this fashion.

rogers has not changed and the story remains the same.