Rogers

It seems that unlimited calling plans are extremely popular in recent months with the Canadian wireless carriers. Today, in response to recent competitive activity, Rogers has launched a new $30 Unlimited Incoming "Competitive Response" plan. The plan is effective March 21, 2011 and the features are listed below: Minutes: 150 daytime Evenings/Weekends: Unlimited @ 6PM...

Update 1: Thanks to Jakub S for the email! :) Recently, Rogers/Fido completed an update to their free "My Account" iPhone applications. The "My Account" apps allow Rogers/Fido customers to view the amount of minutes, data and messages that they have used so far in the month, the amount of remaining usage for the month and...

If you live in Eastern Canada, specifically in Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, or Prince Edward Island, a Rogers dealer called "AML" has a good promotion for business customers. If you are a current or prospective business client with Rogers and are looking to set up two new lines, AML is offering a $100 activation...

Just a reminder from a report back in January 2011 that as of March 16, 2011, that's in two days, Rogers/Fido will be increasing the per-message text message rate and all non-premium message rate to $0.20 from $0.15 per sent and received message. Texts sent above the allotment included in a text plan or add-on...

Effective March 12, 2011, and until further notice, Rogers has launched their free 6PM early evening add-on for all new activations and existing customers. The 6PM early evenings calling bonus is available on the following 2 and 3-year term in-market plans: Unlimited Voice plans Unlimited Voice and Data plans Student plans Family plans All new...

In response to recent price reductions from Telus and Virgin Mobile, Rogers has launched a new $55 My10 "Competitive Response" plan. The $55 plan is not actually visible on the Rogers website, as the actual plan is the $60 Smartphone plan with a $5/month discount. Note that the $5 discount must be manually applied to...

Do you have Canada's worst cellphone bill? We've seen users rack up $37,000 via data roaming and others get hit with similar bills of $18,000 and $6000. CBC Marketplace once again called on Canadians to share their cellphone bill horror stories, and they've finally published their segment. Three bills related to Virgin, Bell, and Rogers...

This week, Rogers Wireless has reintroduced their famous $30 6GB data plan, but only for Business Corporate customers. In other words, your account must have a MSD company code on it and the account type must be "Business Corporate" to qualify. Details of Data Plans The data add-ons are standalone Non-poolable options Any data options...

Update: the image has been removed from the Rogers website. The Rogers website has various images of Apple products, such as iPads and iPhones. However, on their Internet page, there is an image of an Apple iMac that has a missing Apple logo on the front--but poorly removed. First spotted by our very own Ex...

Update: Rogers contacted us to say this forwarding has stopped. Let us know if you see these changes. We just got a tip about a weird change to the way Rogers handles 404 errors over the 3G network. If you're in Mobile Safari and visit a webpage that is down, you'll get the following message:...

Canadians are now complete. All of our iPhone carriers have confirmed they will support the Personal Hotspot feature coming next week in iOS 4.3. First it was Rogers/Fido, then Telus, and now Bell/Virgin. It's true--our telecom giants do like to make moves in unison. Our friends at MobileSyrup received confirmation from Bell: “Yes, we will.....

When Apple released the early betas of iOS 4.3, the Personal Hotspot feature caught the eye of many iPhone owners. We all wondered whether the feature would be available in Canada, and even more importantly, would it be free? For those that don't remember, Personal Hotspot is a new feature in iOS 4.3 that enables...