Effective March 12, 2010, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation waiver promotion and are continuing to waive the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account.

Eligibility & Restrictions

The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans:

Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature” plans: Unlimited Network Calling, MY5, Double Your Minutes, Messages)
Family/Couples Plans, primary and … Read More

Oh boy, Rogers customers are going to love this.

Navigating over to the 911 fee area of the Rogers Website (or checking out your Rogers invoice), visitors will notice that effective April 12, 2010 Rogers will be increasing their monthly charged $0.50 911 fee to $0.75 per month.

Rogers has given no reason for the price increase, but that isn’t different than any other Rogers price increase.

However, do note that this … Read More

In November 2009, Rogers/Fido launched apps that allowed their customers to track their wireless usage in almost real time. The apps were called “MyAccount” and provided users with great account management functionality.

After the success of the MyAccount app, Rogers may be releasing another iPhone app on March 26, 2010. The app is to be called “Rogers Navigator for iPhone” and will provide users with turn by turn directions.

It … Read More

Effective May 4, 2010, Rogers/Fido will be increasing the price of sent international text messages by $0.10, from $0.25 to $0.35 per sent international text message. The price change applies to both prepaid and postpaid customers:

The pay-per-use rate for received international text messages will stay the same at $0.15 per received message.

The pay-per-use rate for sent text messages to the USA will also remain the same at $0.25 per sent … Read More

**The following is a guest post by Justin Luey from CanadaStrikesBack.com**

Rogers has introduced their One Rate Plans that will allow 1GB of data to be used anywhere in Canada and the USA. One iPhoneinCanada.ca reader, Justin Luey has given his take on Rogers One Rate Plans:

Rogers has just announced new North American data plans, these plans allow customers to use data while traveling in the U.S … Read More

Effective today, and expiring on March 31, 2010, Rogers has released a new $25 student plan that targets individuals who do much more text messaging than calling.

The new plan primarily features unlimited text messaging (not video or photo) and evenings start at 6PM for free (usually $7).

New $25 Student Plan:

Daytime: 50 minutes
Evenings & Weekends: Unlimited at 6PM
Features included: Unlimited Text Messages, Call Waiting, Group Calling, Call Forwarding, Who Called, Call … Read More

In the beginning of February, Rogers released a series of new price plans for both existing and new customers. Today, the company has modified some of those new plans to include newer and better features.

One of the more negative changes made at the beginning of February was made to the $50 Voice and Data combo plan. At that time, the $50 combo plan lost its 50 bonus minutes … Read More

Effective today, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation waiver promotion and are continuing to waive the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account.

Eligibility & Restrictions

The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans:

Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature” plans: Unlimited Network Calling, MY5, Double Your Minutes, Messages)
Family/Couples Plans, primary and secondary lines (new activations only)
Business sharing … Read More

Sometime this week, Apple and the Canadian wireless carriers increased the 3G file size limit for App Store downloads up to 20MB.

Previously, when users were connected to 3G, they could only download apps that were up to 10MB in size. Anything greater than 10MB needed a WiFi connection.

The new limit is now 20MB and anything greater than 20MB will need WiFi.

However, unless you have the Rogers/Fido 6GB data plan, we … Read More

Effective February 11, 2010, Rogers and Fido are waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account.

Eligibility & Restrictions

The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans:

Mega Value Plans (All “choice of feature” plans: Unlimited Network Calling, MY5, Double Your Minutes, Messages)
Family/Couples Plans, primary and secondary lines (new activations only)
Business sharing plans, primary and secondary lines (new activations … Read More