“Rogers gave a possible clue as to the launch timing of the next iPhone by reviving its 6GB data plan [$30],” Electronista reports. “The 6GB core plan needs a three-year contract with voice but isn’t tied to any one device.”
“The plan is available until September 30 and, in doing so, might have given a clue as to Apple’s plans for the iPhone in the country,” Electronista reports. “Rogers originally created the 6GB plan to assuage iPhone 3G buyers who were angered at the low caps they faced at the time. Since then, the provider has brought it back each summer and always in a timeframe that would cover at least some of an iPhone launch.”
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Im signed up with the 6gig plan now. Anybody know if I would be able to share it with an 3g iPad without tethering to the iPhone?
Yup, Rogers charges a monthly fee (I believe it’s $10) but the beginning of your contract would be a convenient time to get on that.
Rogers customers who subscribe to a data plan of 1 GB or more a month get tethering included at no extra charge.
He’s talking about the $10 to share data across multiple devices, not the tethering to a separate device. Having a 3G phone and a 3G iPad share the data for each month costs an extra $10.
Since both iPhone 4 (and, presumably, all future iPhones) and iPad share the same SIM card size (microSIM), shouldn’t you be able to just take the SIM out of the phone and stick it into the iPad? I know this probably makes your phone number unreachable by voice while the SIM is in the iPad, but the data plan ought to work.
I think in the more current versions of iOS, they took away editing the APN for the iPad. You would need to edit the APN to get it to work. I hear that Here in the states, AT&T has been shutting down sims that do that now.
I just opted out of the 6GB plan, having never actually used more than a couple hundred MB in any month. Most of my heavy downloading I do on WiFi, at work or at home. Their new plans offer 500MB/Month but unlimited usage on certain sites (IE: YouTube, Google Maps, FaceBook, etc, which is where roving cell data usage actually piles up). I saved a few dollars a months but gained more “free” time where I actually use it.
That said ….
Welcome to the new merchandising of websites folks – Corporate handshakes.
Now that the push for net neutrality has failed, the corporate result is remarkably swift: From today onward I can use GoogleMaps all I like for free. However, if I wish to use BingMaps or MapQuest instead, it’ll cost me from my data allotment. This small change, parading as a benefit for consumers, is going to make it impossible for small independents to gain any traction on the internet form here on out. It may well kill off small players like Garmin and other small service providers who rely on fair and equal internet access. The big corporations are setting up to drive out competition by making people pay extra to visit those sites or use their products.
Brau, think about it. Rogers got money from YouTube, Google Maps, FaceBook, etc, to let them be the de facto players in their field on Android phones and iPhones.
That means it’s not “The big corporations” it’s Rogers. They are the greediest bastards in Canada. They make Quebec look like an amateur.
So are you saying that Rogers is Google’s whore? Because it sure looks like that from here.
It seems we are saying the same thing, and I don’t think we disagree on anything, except your definition of a big corporation. Google, FaceBook, YouTube are some of the biggest profit-making corporations of the decade. How you can upend that to place blame on a small time player like Roger’s for taking the bait I find a bit hard to fathom. To me, it’s like blaming the cashier for the US produce at the foodstore.
Quebec? Amateur? Mais non! Mon ami.
Boy, if that is the case and this becomes the standard in the US, this will truly be bad. Googles efforts to shut down a truly blind or neutral net paying off big.
I’ve had the 6GB plan with my iPhone and I’m happy with the peace of mind that it brings. Monthly bill is still over $100 once I add the voice plan and “value pack”. Can’t make many changes to my account without giving up the data. Sucky.
I have the 6 gig data plan and Rogers would not let me share with ny iPad. They said, and I quote, ‘you are lucky enough to have the 6 gig plan you can’t share it with your iPad’.
Rogers is ALL about the merchandising of Web sites and choking any sites that present a threat. Just recently I’ve been victim of “Net preference” when I tried to sign into Netflix at a family members’ house. No dice, Rogers basically killed my entire connection when trying to access the homepage of Netflix.
Rogers uses the excuse that it hogs too much bandwidth, but the average television consumer can leave their digital cable on ALL day and never incur an extra charge. Too bad the CRTC is a neutered.