Comments on: Rogers/Fido Introduce Data Day Pass

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:40:13 +0000

He is quite helpful, eh?

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:26:12 +0000

Ty for much X1Zero your really nice

By: X1Zero

X1Zero — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:23:36 +0000

LG eve is different than an iPhone.

On wifi, you don't pay for any data. When not on wifi and using
Rogers, you pay per kb

By: X1Zero

X1Zero — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:22:48 +0000

On your device, go to:

Settings > Wifi > toggle it on

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:48:05 +0000

btw do you still have to pay the kb rate if you use wifi for market or like the funny jokes app. i have an LG Gw620/EVE

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:41:05 +0000

how do you download thorugh wifi becasue i donlt know which ones i was downloading with.

By: X1Zero

X1Zero — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:34:52 +0000

Yes.
It's highly recommended to downloaded apps on WIFI only

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:13:05 +0000

does downloading applications count in the 20mb data pass. plus do you still have to pay the data rate? as like 0.03/kb?

By: RuBBacHiKiN

RuBBacHiKiN — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:17:46 +0000

I was actually pleasantly surprised when this popped up on my browser, at work. Being a Pay-As-You-Go iPhone user, I don't really have much of a need for any sort of data plan, as I am often in an area that has Wi-Fi anyway. So I've pretty much gotten used to not using the data part of my iPhone when not either at home or on campus. I guess I'm just somebody who doesn't really need to download big files or stream videos onto my iPhone anytime I'm outside of a Wi-Fi zone. All I've used my $5(50mb/24hrs) for so far was simply the Facebook app, some Safari browsing to my favorite forum, and of course, E-mail. Not too sure how many megs I have left for this session, but I assume it should last me the whole 24-hour time limit. My iPhone is one of the first-gen ones, and I don't really mind the load-times of the pages over EDGE. It was just fun to get a chance to hit up the forums for a bit from work. I strongly favor this over the old pay-per-kb setup, especially because there's always the chance you could run a data service by accident and end up with your pre-paid balance raped, as was the case with my old Blackberries. With this system, there's no fear of unintended data charges. Of course I won't be buying day-passes frequently, as I have no need to use them on a regular basis. I might buy them occasionally to treat myself to a day or two of data each month when I'm on the go. Or if I'm expecting a good amount of E-mails, I can grab one and let my phone idle in Fetch mode, and be able to get my messages without needing to be in a Wi-Fi zone.

Overall, I am really satisfied with the Data Day-Pass setup. Of course when we're talking costs per MB, the Data Day-Pass is significantly more expensive than common data-plan rates, but for the occasional user, I could definitely see it coming in handy, every now and then. Especially since I use Google Sync for my contacts, calendars, and mail.

The only thing I really hate about Rogers PAYG now is that they removed US from the PAYG text packs, and made it a separate "International Text" add-on for $6/month for only 40 texts! Not only is that insane, both in limitation and price, but that cuts me off from like, half my texting contacts.

By: tekguy26

tekguy26 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:16:36 +0000

OK, I just got off the horn with our friends from Rogers. They told me that all non-Rogers phones get the $4.99 option. Of course she also told me that goam.com would not work, and that I would have to use internet.com. I don't know what to believe. With goam.com I can still browse rogers.mobi:8080/primary/, but I don't get a txt to buy a day pass. When I do that with internet.com, I can still browse rogers.mobi:8080/primary/ for free, but I get a txt to buy a day pass for $4.99 when I try to go to other websites. Quesiton is, is technical support giving me a lazy answer, or is that indeed the fact? Rogers Corporate is soo greedy, I swear.