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Rogers Adds Voice & Data Usage Tracking To Your Account

About a month ago Rogers began testing a new addition to customers' Rogers.com accounts. The new addition was the ability to track your Voice and Data usage online, which meant you could track how many minutes, data and messages you have used and what remains in relation to your current billing period. The feature went...

18000 Reasons Why iPhone Data Roaming Should Always Be OFF!

If you are an iPhone owner, or any user of a data plan in Canada, you should know that data roaming should always be turned off. Why? Well, because if you turn it ON and surf the internet freely and liberally, you're going to get a hurt real bad. Winnipeg Student Gets $18,000 iPhone Data...

Rogers Increases Data Protection Cap; Not Good News

Along the release of the $150/month 15GB data plan, Rogers Wireless has increased the Data Protection Cap for all new and existing customers. At first this may sound good, but it is not good. Not at all. Therefore, it will be added to our growing list: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16...

Rogers iPhone 3GS Still Out of Stock in Canada

If you've been thinking of getting your hands on the latest iPhone 3GS, and you plan on getting it from Rogers/Fido, think again (or get in line!). Currently, iPhone 3GS stock levels in Canada (and around the world) have been in short supply. When the iPhone 3GS first went on sale it was expected they...

Rogers/Fido Reduce Your Local Calling Area

As standard procedure would dictate, we are are at number 14 and oh what a great one this is (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13). Beginning July 1 2009 and ending on October 15 2009, Rogers Wireless and Fido have and will be reducing the local calling areas for the following cities (dates included): Sarnia...

Rogers Reduces Visual Voicemail Storage Rules

Number 12. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) If you are a Rogers customer, have an iPhone 3G/3GS and use Visual Voicemail service, I have some bad news. I hope you do not rely on your voicemail storage capacities too much. Effective October 1 2009, Rogers will be reducing the storage capacity of your Visual Voicemail inbox...

Update: Rogers Updates Student Plans, Adds My10

At the end of July we reported about the release of the Rogers Student Plans. While the plans were far from great, I had noted that Rogers will announce the free 6PM student evenings overlay option and eventually a My10 option. The 6PM overlay came almost instantly and now effective August 18 2009, Rogers is...

Rogers/Fido Updated Hardware Upgrade Policy Brings New Tricks

Happy Monday morning!...Get ready to cry. Effective August 21 2009, Rogers/Fido are once again amending their Hardware Upgrade policies. The new policy now states that you can only get a hardware upgrade after 24 months (used to be 12 months). The new policy affects all consumer accounts (business accounts seem unaffected) and all devices (smartphones...

Rogers 8GB iPhone 3GS; Fun While It Lasted

Earlier this week we reported about the mysterious 8GB iPhone 3GS from Rogers. First it showed up on the Rogers website and then was seen on the Rogers internal sales systems. After a few hours that same day, the website was amended to no longer show an 8GB option for the iPhone 3GS. Well, it...