“I have spoken with several representatives from Rogers regarding the availability of the iPhone and it turns out that they are in fact planning on providing the iPhone to Canadians. There are no official statements but the average wait time is 6-8 months minimum once they become available in the US (check the track record with previous smartphones). I’m also told the iPhone will be available on a two or three year contract, and a data plan must also be purchased (data plans in Canada aren’t cheap). Looks like an accurate release date in Canada is sometime Q4 2007 and into early 2008. About the same time that the phone will be available to European carriers,” John Wiseman reports on his blog.
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Good news for those canadians. Any word on an Australian release?
It’s these “data plans” that are going to be the key to success or failure. I have an old grandfathered in Sprint plan with what should be unlimited data service. That is wonderful. ANY other plan that charges by the bit would be terrible. And some of those plans are so bad now, you just would use the phone.
I hope this is handled well by Apple and Cingular. Currently, Cingular’s data plans have not looked particularly good to me. That, by itself, can stop me from getting the phone. In addition to Sprint, I also have a Cingular phone. Sprint has better quality service and sound. Cingular has service in more areas (specifically, Alaska, where I spend increasing time).
Apple had better have addressed this issue in the U.S. – and in Canada.
Oh sure… and just after I got an LG Chocolate phone on a 3yr contract.
<shakes fist at Steve Jobs>
Forgive the ignorance but what is a data plan?
I’m perhaps one of the few who still hasn’t jumped on the cellular bandwgon..
Thanx
A 3 year contract?? Damn, and I thought Cingular was awful.
Y CUANDO LLEGARA A MEXICO???
When it is going to arrive to Mexica? Looks like TELCEL has some kind of bounds with AT&T.
Noooooo! Not Rogers! They have great coverage if you live in a city of over 500,000 or drive between Calgary AB and Edmonton AB or between Windsor ON and Quebec City PQ. You wander anywhere else you are SOL.
Looks like I will be buying the iPod only version.
Yes, too bad it’s Rogers, but at least it’s somone, and soon!
When the product and programs are released, I’ll look at my options then. I’ll continue to live without a cell phone now.
Yeah baby! Can’t wait!!!
3 Years? And an LG to boot? You had to know this phone was coming – everybody knew it was coming, we just didn’t know when exactly.
We have a two year contract with Cingular – we just renewed last year and upgraded our phones in the process. January ’08 is upgrade time
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Unfortunately, I have a feeling Cingular will probably require the data plan as well. And my wife and I both want an iPhone. Maybe they’ll offer two-for-one data packages as a result of the iPhone’s popularity.
I hope Cingular beefs up their network. From what I understand, it’s pretty crappy. We get decent coverage here – but we don’t have data plans.