A Canadian iPhone 3G launch day experience

Got up early this morning to ensure a spot near the front of the line of my local Rogers dealer for the iPhone 3G launch. I was a man on a mission. That mission, was to secure a black 16GB iPhone 3G for myself, and a white one for my wife. Things [...]

Rogers announces it’s *real* iPhone data plan

WOOT! Rogers has just announced a special ‘limited time’ promotional 6GB data plan for anyone purchasing an iPhone 3G on any voice rate plan on a 3 year contract for only $30 extra per month! From the press release:

Effective July 11, and as a limited time promotional offer for customers
who activate by August [...]

A closer look at Rogers’ iPhone voice/data rates

Rogers announced their new voice & data rates this past weekend, and boy did it create quite the stir, first on the internet, and then getting coverage in mainstream newspaper and television news. So what’s the big deal? Essentially, that Rogers voice/data rate plans are some of the least competitive rates available in [...]

Futureshop.ca game pre-orders are a scam [Update 1]

[Update 1] Given the difficulty I had securing a PLAYSTATION 3 on launch weekend back in 2006, I got in the habit of pre-ordering popular PS3 games from Futureshop.ca months in advance as a security precaution in case they were in short supply come launch day.

So far this hasn’t really been worth it, because there [...]

Bell, get your grubby hands off my ISPs bandwidth! [Update 2]

[Update 2] We’ve known for a while now that major ISPs in Canada have been utilizing traffic shaping technology to throttle the transfer speeds of certain types of traffic. Rogers Hi-Speed and Bell Sympatico customers who use Bittorrent to transfer files know all too well. It’s for this reason that some consumers have [...]

Switching ISPs: Good-bye, Bell Sympatico. Hello TekSavvy! [Update 1]

[Update 1] We Canadians put up with a lot of abuse from our telecom/internet providers. As if high prices and poor customer service weren’t enough to endure, we’ve also put up with data transfer caps on supposedly “unlimited” internet connections and now our supposedly high-speed internet connections are only high speed for some types [...]