• 250MB per month – $15/mo. (no contract, month-to-month)
• 5GB per month – $35/mo. (no contract, month-to-month)
• Add iPad to your existing Rogers data plan – $20/mo.
To start 3G service on your iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G, you will need a Micro-SIM card and a data plan. When you order your iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G from Apple Online Store, you can add a Micro-SIM card from Rogers. You can start 3G service any time after installing the Micro-SIM card.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple announced last Friday that iPad will be available in Canada (and Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK) on Friday, May 28th. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple’s online store in all nine countries beginning on Monday, May 10.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Mac Cheech” and “CdnPhoto” for the heads up.]
Why can’t we add the iPad to our existing data plan in the u.s.? Come on AT&T;.
Oh, and Canada already has tethering enabled on the iPhone.
Ya but we get way more screwed. I hate Rogers. Did you read how call display and name display are now two seperate items, hence two seperate charges.
And $35 is alot for just 5 gigs
Yeah Canada! No we need the Habs to beat the Pens tonight.
Wait a minute – add the iPad to your existing plan for $20/month? What is the $20 a month for? This option should be *FREE*.
I’m already paying Rogers close to $100 a month just to get the full feature set of my iPhone (on their ridiculous THREE year contract), and basically, they want me to cough up another $20 to add a device to the plan I am already paying a premium for?
This is the point where I think I’ll be jailbreaking my iPhone, so I can use the MyFi app (which is a one-time cost of $10), so I can tether my iPad – to my existing data plan.
What? Just ‘iPad’? Not “revolutionary iPad’, ‘amazing iPad’ or any other superlatives? Is this a different one, or are you just not feeling right?
@izod
Unbelievable.
I drive my car on a toll road and it cost X$ per mile.
I attach a motorhome behind it and you expect it shouldn’t cost anymore?
But what can you expect from a free-loader anyway?
C$35 a month for 5GB? Is proctology covered by Canada’s health system? Why not just tether a WiFi model to your iPhone without adding any plans?
Tethered my WiFi iPad to my iPhone using MyFi on Rogers and it works great! Drains the iPhone battery pretty fast, but other than that it is the best solution.
As for MDMac’s argument about the toll roads and trailers (??) – I can already tether my MacBook at no extra cost, so why should I pay extra to tether the iPad??
I have to publicly apologize to Rogers for asserting that they would never have a no-contract iPad data plan. I am speechless. That said, I already have a WiFi 64GB model that I’m perfectly happy with.
@ Essence
“Tethered my WiFi iPad to my iPhone using MyFi on Rogers and it works great! Drains the iPhone battery pretty fast, but other than that it is the best solution.”
Why would you do that? Rogers allows tethering your computer.
By the way, what does it cost you? And you are not tethering you iPad on the Rogers plan.
Sounds like Rogers intends to milk this for all it’s worth. They need some real competition to put a restraint on their greed.
Guys – look at this another way. Apple are trying to change the way mobile companies charge for air time. However this can only happen in steps.
1. Apple developed a brand new type of phone and got the mobile companies to sell with huge subsidies and no control over music etc.
2. They demonstrated that this is a very successful and profitable model.
3. Now they have got the telcos to offer no contract services. A bit like pay as your go phones but the telcos got none of the phone revenue.
Apple are changing the mobile landscape. Just like music, by demonstrating success Apple have been able to get concessions.
Believe me this is not over. The current restrictions will no longer exist in 5 years time.
Paying $20/month to add an iPad to your existing iPhone data plan is unacceptable.
I pay $30/month for my capped iPhone data plan, and now I get the privilege of paying $20/month more just to allow my iPad to drink from the same bucket! This is keeping in mind that no extra data is provided with this deal, and if I exceed my cap, I get to pay an additional $0.05/MB in overage fees!!!
Considering the only alternative is $15/month for 250 MB, or $35/month for 5GB, Rogers seems to have made an art out of cornering their customers!
Hello, this is Mary from Rogers online communications team. It’s great to see everyone excited about the launch of iPad in Canada and we’re thrilled have been the first Canadian carrier to announce we’ll carry the iPad on our network.
I can confirm that we have two iPad data plans available for our customers. Both the 250 MB for $15 and 5 GB for $35 include free unlimited access to all Rogers WiFi Hot Spots.
At this time, we do not have a sharing plan to announce. The reference to a sharing plan on the Apple website was an error and is being removed.
We have posted additional information about our iPad data plans on RedBoard: http://www.redboard.rogers.com.
Thanks,
Mary
Take the “www” out and the above link works:
http://redboard.rogers.com
Let your voice be heard.
@ MDmac
That was my point – Rogers allows tethering of the computer, but the iPad isn’t able to, unless you jailbreak and install MyWi. It’s also the only way to go mobile with the WiFi iPad.
I pay $30 for the 6 gig plan.
As a non-iPhone owner (I do have an iPod touch), I’m actually pretty happy with this announcement. $35 for 5GB is pretty reasonable in my view, considering that it’s very unlikely I’d ever come even close to maxing that out (although 250MB seems too low). Moreover, being able to turn on and off service for it whenever I want could be a big cost-saver as well.
The $20 fee does not seem unreasonable to me at all. Consider that in the US you can’t do it (legally) at ALL currently. For those of you saying that it should be free since you’re not paying for more data, that’s not exactly true. Technically your data allotment is the same, but in practice you will likely use more data overall having both devices active. The fact is, very few (according to rogers, 0.02%) of iPhone users actually max out even 5GB of data. I suspect the iPad will be a heavier user, and certainly adding another device will increase data use. In other words, it will cost the carrier more. And if it costs them more, they will charge you more.
$15/250MB to be too much; $35/5GB is “acceptable” but not as good as the limited-time $30/6GB promo they had a year ago.
However, $20 to add the iPad to your existing iPhone plan seems reasonable actually, depending on what exactly they’re doing. It seems you’re NOT tethering iPad to your iPhone, like you would your computer; you are actually given a second micro-SIM card that’s tied to the same data plan as your iPhone.
*IF* this is the case, people complaining about lack of tethering (e.g. for the wifi-only model) should address complaints to Apple for not allowing it.
Update:
Readers have pointed out that the $20 iPad add-on feature was published by Apple in error and will not actually be available. A Rogers Community Manager confirmed that this was a mistake as shown on Rogers site:
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/ipad-dataplans?cm_mmc=Redirects-_-Consumer_Wireless_Eng-_-iPad_PrelaunchDataPlans_0510-_-iPad
MacCheech
So what they are saying is we changer our minds and are pulling back $20 shared data plan cause greed got the better of us.
There is no $20.00 option. Rogers needs more money for the same data you are already paying for. Its like paying $30.00 per month per computer you have in your home for the same internet service, or how about another cable fee if you want to watch television in bed. I better stop typing or I might owe them more money.
Roger is an will always be zeros in my eyes. Yesterday morning when i git the email from apple giving the green light on pre-orders i went ahead and looked into it. To my surprise i saw the 20$ add on option from rogers and agreed that it was acceptable and went ahead with the pre-order. Later on in the day I get a call from Alan fro apple letting me know there was an error and rogers is no longer standing behind their 20$ add on option…..
I canceled the pre- order and will be calling rogers this week to cancel my line and 6gb plan as my contract has expired. I’m going to stand behind public mobile for my wireless talk and text needs and use wifi on my macbook air untill something more interesting comes about.
Alex