The day after I wrote my last iPhone post, I received an email from the PR company working with Rogers Mobile (MS&L Digital) on the pricing plans:
Hello, My name is Nicole Burguess and I’m writing on behalf of Rogers to give you some additional information about the Rogers rate plans available for the iPhone. The iPhone 3G bundles released June 27 are not the only price plans available to customers, they are the high value plans that allow Rogers customers to use the device to its fullest and offer considerable savings …read more

When I was in Vancouver this week I was having lunch with Rebecca “Miss604” Bollwitt and Colleen Coplick and saw an iPhone ad in the Rogers store across the street.  Yep, the marketing push is in full swing.  Only problem is that until today we didn’t know what the plans would be like.
Now we do and all I can say is: ouch.
The official Rogers press release give us a table with all the plans:
iPhone 3G Price Plans at Rogers Wireless —————————————-
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Sorry Canada, no iPhone for youApple’s “Jesus phone” (aka iPhone) still isn’t really available in Canada yet.  Sure you can buy a hacked phone that is unlocked, but that is a risk that I’m not willing to take.  One of the big stumbling blocks, we surmise, is that Rogers Canada (the only GSM provider) doesn’t offer an unlimited data plan.  You might think that hope is on the horizon with Rogers’ recent ads for unlimited data plans.  Ah, but no, there …read more