Setup Rogers EDGE Settings for the iPhone

By Gary Ng on December 16th, 2007 134

Canada has some of the most expensive data rates in the world. Remember the guy with the $85,000 phone bill?! Anyways, if you want to setup your iPhone with Rogers, make sure you’re on a data plan if you want to use mobile internet (WiFi remains free). It’s going to be expensive so get ready!

How to Setup Rogers EDGE Settings on the iPhone

  1. Settings –> General –> Network –> EDGE
  2. Enter the following settings:
    • APN: internet.com
    • Username: wapuser1
    • Password: wap

There is a VISION 10MB data plan for $10/month that requires a 36 month contract. Cancellation fees are as follows:

  • Cancel before 12 months: $100
  • Cancel after 12 months: $25

Regular price for monthly plan is $10/month for the 10MB plan. Also, a plan that isn’t advertised is the 1GB plan for $65. Why someone would pay this much for data is beyond me!

Here’s the scary part: the fee is $0.05/kb over the 10MB–that means if you go over by 1MB, you’ll pay about $50! This package is not for the lightweight user–for those times you have no WiFi.

Here’s a small breakdown of usage.

SENT/RECEIVED
Application – sent/received (kb)

For every restart – 1/1 (Apparently also does this periodically)
To check weather – 3/4
Google maps – 7/43
Zoom and a small pan – 9/75
Email check (3×50) – 18/320
Open email – 4/14
Safari (Google.com) and search – 9/34

The numbers above add up to approx. 60/500 (That’s half a megabyte already)!

Thanks to user happysmp for his contribution to the information above, courtesy of the Hackint0sh forums! The bottom line is that data plans on Rogers are a big rip off! I can’t wait for the day when another GSM carrier enters the Canadian market, to break down this monopoly by Rogers!

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  • Ivan

    I am having issues with my edge on rogers. I got the package of $30 for 300mbs plan for smart phones but got text stating large amounts owed. I called them and was basically told that i have a non-rogers phone and even though i have a data plan they are not reading the data properly for there billing plan. I may have the wrong edge settings as i only had internet.com on my settings not the password etc… Can someone guide me on this? Could that be the issue i was describing?

  • Ivan

    I am having issues with my edge on rogers. I got the package of $30 for 300mbs plan for smart phones but got text stating large amounts owed. I called them and was basically told that i have a non-rogers phone and even though i have a data plan they are not reading the data properly for there billing plan. I may have the wrong edge settings as i only had internet.com on my settings not the password etc… Can someone guide me on this? Could that be the issue i was describing?

  • mahone

    same shit for me, iphone 16bg on 1.1.4. -ziPhone,
    $30 data plan on rogers-Toronto..
    used
    internet.com
    wapuser1
    wap
    nothing works
    I am about to re-hack the iphone using ipawn.
    whoever tries this first , pls post the results.

  • mahone

    same shit for me, iphone 16bg on 1.1.4. -ziPhone,
    $30 data plan on rogers-Toronto..
    used
    internet.com
    wapuser1
    wap
    nothing works
    I am about to re-hack the iphone using ipawn.
    whoever tries this first , pls post the results.

  • Bruce

    My Edge has worked fine since Jan.08 with the standard internet.com, wapuser1, wap settings. Like I mentioned before, I am using the Windows Mobile Plan for $25/mo for 4MB of EDGE with no problems what so ever. I have averaged about 2.5mb to 4mb of EDGE per month.

    I know people are complaining about the new plans, but even with 400mb of Edge per month, that will be tons for me. (Don’t need a 3G phone get the new plans and use Edge BTW) I mostly access the web on wifi anyhow, regardless of how much 3G/EDGE I would have available.

    We have 30 million people in the largest geographical country using cell phones, so it makes to me that our wireless would cost more than the USA where they have the advantage in terrain and over 250 million people for economies of scale. Sure I would like a lower price, but people get real, this is a great phone not a computer.

    Bruce

  • Bruce

    My Edge has worked fine since Jan.08 with the standard internet.com, wapuser1, wap settings. Like I mentioned before, I am using the Windows Mobile Plan for $25/mo for 4MB of EDGE with no problems what so ever. I have averaged about 2.5mb to 4mb of EDGE per month.

    I know people are complaining about the new plans, but even with 400mb of Edge per month, that will be tons for me. (Don’t need a 3G phone get the new plans and use Edge BTW) I mostly access the web on wifi anyhow, regardless of how much 3G/EDGE I would have available.

    We have 30 million people in the largest geographical country using cell phones, so it makes to me that our wireless would cost more than the USA where they have the advantage in terrain and over 250 million people for economies of scale. Sure I would like a lower price, but people get real, this is a great phone not a computer.

    Bruce

  • kiwi

    I just got the $30/300 plan added to my account.. (I blocked data last month) and its working fine after I restarted my iphone.

  • kiwi

    I just got the $30/300 plan added to my account.. (I blocked data last month) and its working fine after I restarted my iphone.

  • mel

    I have tried to get on the net and e-mail with my unlocked iphone from the U.S. I have rogers data plan and have set the phone to wapuser etc. but no luck. Can someone walk me through this and help

    thanks

    Mel

  • mel

    I have tried to get on the net and e-mail with my unlocked iphone from the U.S. I have rogers data plan and have set the phone to wapuser etc. but no luck. Can someone walk me through this and help

    thanks

    Mel

  • mahone

    I fixed the data reception (see my post above)
    I’ve tried to install winpwn several times and didn’t work (crashed everytime on verifying software) then I went back to ziphone 3.0-reinstalled everything, used same sets wapuser1/wap/internet.com and everything works fine. A bit slow EDGE on rogers. It does switch automatically to wifi while at home.

  • mahone

    I fixed the data reception (see my post above)
    I’ve tried to install winpwn several times and didn’t work (crashed everytime on verifying software) then I went back to ziphone 3.0-reinstalled everything, used same sets wapuser1/wap/internet.com and everything works fine. A bit slow EDGE on rogers. It does switch automatically to wifi while at home.

  • steven

    Why doesn’t my iphone work on wi-fi at home? i put in the password and doesn’t give me an error message but it still doesn’t work.

    also having a problem getting the e-mail to work. I set up the accounts properly but they still won’t retrieve messages on the edge network. i have sent them out no problem

  • steven

    Why doesn’t my iphone work on wi-fi at home? i put in the password and doesn’t give me an error message but it still doesn’t work.

    also having a problem getting the e-mail to work. I set up the accounts properly but they still won’t retrieve messages on the edge network. i have sent them out no problem

  • Ivan

    I just upgraded to 2.0 with pwn tool and it does not give the option to set edge, b ut it works just want to make sure i am not missing something as i have the 6gb plan with rogers and want to make sure i get billed properly.

  • Ivan

    I just upgraded to 2.0 with pwn tool and it does not give the option to set edge, b ut it works just want to make sure i am not missing something as i have the 6gb plan with rogers and want to make sure i get billed properly.

  • tiffer

    Hi I was just wondering how you upgraded to 2.0. I have a first generation iphone with 1.1.1 and i was wondering if i could upgrade?

    Also I just got the 6GB plan from rogers, and I was wondering what you put in for edge settings
    i heard that you shouldn’t put anything with wap because you will be charged huge.

    I am assuming this would be the one not to put in?
    APN: internet.com
    Username: wapuser1
    Password: wap

    so what would i put?

    thanks

  • tiffer

    Hi I was just wondering how you upgraded to 2.0. I have a first generation iphone with 1.1.1 and i was wondering if i could upgrade?

    Also I just got the 6GB plan from rogers, and I was wondering what you put in for edge settings
    i heard that you shouldn’t put anything with wap because you will be charged huge.

    I am assuming this would be the one not to put in?
    APN: internet.com
    Username: wapuser1
    Password: wap

    so what would i put?

    thanks

  • tiffer

    i tried the

    internet.com
    guest
    guest, but this seems to erase every time i turn my phone off

  • tiffer

    i tried the

    internet.com
    guest
    guest, but this seems to erase every time i turn my phone off

  • Alanna

    Hey,

    I have the older iphone and i could never use any wifi or anything because i wasn’t suscribed to edge. I recently (today actually) put in the internet.com stuff for the edge settings and everything is working fine, including my wifi. now, becaues my wifi doesn’t work without my edge, will i be charged for anything?? i turned off my data roaming and i’m not on an iphone plan or anything. it’s an unlocked iphone. i just want to know if i’m going to be getting charged for anything.

  • Alanna

    Hey,

    I have the older iphone and i could never use any wifi or anything because i wasn’t suscribed to edge. I recently (today actually) put in the internet.com stuff for the edge settings and everything is working fine, including my wifi. now, becaues my wifi doesn’t work without my edge, will i be charged for anything?? i turned off my data roaming and i’m not on an iphone plan or anything. it’s an unlocked iphone. i just want to know if i’m going to be getting charged for anything.

  • Robyn

    You are amazing. Thanks sooo much for getting this working for me. I would definitely buy you a beer if I could. paypal?

  • Robyn

    You are amazing. Thanks sooo much for getting this working for me. I would definitely buy you a beer if I could. paypal?

  • Robyn

    Thanks soooo much for your help getting edge to work on my rogers data plan. You are amazing. Please enjoy a beer on me, (sent through paypal). Cheers!

  • Robyn

    Thanks soooo much for your help getting edge to work on my rogers data plan. You are amazing. Please enjoy a beer on me, (sent through paypal). Cheers!

  • Tj Khun Khuna

    hey i dont know how old this thread is but i was thinking about getting an iphone 3g not unlocked from my freiend and then going out and buying a standerd student plan with unlimted web browsing

    will this work on the iphone and i wont have to pay for 3g data service if i got the unlimted web browsing right?

  • Tj Khun Khuna

    hey i dont know how old this thread is but i was thinking about getting an iphone 3g not unlocked from my freiend and then going out and buying a standerd student plan with unlimted web browsing

    will this work on the iphone and i wont have to pay for 3g data service if i got the unlimted web browsing right?

  • val

    Hello I am on the rogers network and trying to set up my email accounts and nothing seems to work of have used the Other and POP and entered in the Pop account and STMP account and still nothing. Would somebody please be able to let me know what the correct settings are. As well as what to enter in the SSL settings.

    Thanks

  • val

    Hello I am on the rogers network and trying to set up my email accounts and nothing seems to work of have used the Other and POP and entered in the Pop account and STMP account and still nothing. Would somebody please be able to let me know what the correct settings are. As well as what to enter in the SSL settings.

    Thanks

  • ol

    I have a locked Fido iphone I bought from Craigslist, which I put my old Fido SIM into. Fido don’t know I have an iphone. I told them I wanted my data blocked on my phone so that I can only use WIFI, they said it was but if there was no WIFI signal that it may kick in. I turned my phone on last night for the 1st time, the WIFI works, today I was out and checked my email the ‘E’ (edge) symbol came up, does anyone know how this works and if I will be charged everytime the ‘E’ symbol comes up? What is this Edge thing? I haven’t set anything up for it on my iphone.

  • ol

    I have a locked Fido iphone I bought from Craigslist, which I put my old Fido SIM into. Fido don’t know I have an iphone. I told them I wanted my data blocked on my phone so that I can only use WIFI, they said it was but if there was no WIFI signal that it may kick in. I turned my phone on last night for the 1st time, the WIFI works, today I was out and checked my email the ‘E’ (edge) symbol came up, does anyone know how this works and if I will be charged everytime the ‘E’ symbol comes up? What is this Edge thing? I haven’t set anything up for it on my iphone.

  • Yorgi

    Thanks!

    This worked like a charm for my jailbroken original iPhone. Now if Rogers would just stop screwing us on dataplan rates the world would be a better place.

  • Yorgi

    Thanks!

    This worked like a charm for my jailbroken original iPhone. Now if Rogers would just stop screwing us on dataplan rates the world would be a better place.

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