Rogers

So Rogers had a slight delay with the release of this app, but the Rogers Navigator is finally available! The Rogers Navigator is an iPhone application that turns your iPhone 3G/3GS into a GPS navigation device. The app is powered by TeleNav and further features voice-guided turn-by-turn directions on the road, and re-routes users automatically...

Last month, Rogers launched a promotion that gave customers six months of unlimited local calling. The Canadian wireless carriers usually provide one month or no months of unlimited local calling, so to come out with six months is definitely a Canadian first. Last month, the promotion for Rogers came out rather late in the month...

In the beginning of February, Rogers released a series of new price plans for both existing and new customers. At the end of February 2010, the company 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...

Back in late February 2010, Rogers released a new $25 student plan that targets individuals who do much more text messaging than calling. At that time, the plan was set to expire on March 31, 2010. The Student Plan has now been extended until May 3, 2010. The new plan primarily featured unlimited text messaging...

Looking to get an iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS on the cheap? Check out the "refreshed" iPhones from Telus. Telus is offering a limited quantity of low priced refreshed iPhones on a 3-year agreement. The refreshed iPhones are exclusive to the Telus online store, which means they are not available in a Telus store or...

A couple of months ago, Rogers/Fido extended their tethering "promotion" to expire on May 3, 2010. As long as users had a 1GB or higher data plan, they were able to use tethering as part of their 1GB data bucket. As expected, effective today, Rogers/Fido have dumped the May 3 expiration and made tethering a...

March 2010 is turning out to be the month of Canadian wireless carrier promotions! First Rogers launched their free 6PM early evenings add-on and waived the $35 activation fee (Fido too). Then Bell followed, with Virgin Mobile (only $35 wavier for Virgin), and matched the same promotions. Then Telus followed Rogers/Bell and released their own...

Effective March 12, 2010, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation fee 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...

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...

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...

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...

**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...