So, it seems all those folks who’ve been waiting a year with bated breath for Rogers to unleash Apple’s iPhone are not only disappointed, they’re downright angry.
Upon discovering that the base plan includes only 150 daytime minutes and 400 megabytes of monthly data on this data hungry monster, some have taken to protest at RuinediPhone.
As I type this, more than 20,000 people have “signed” a digital petition to say these rates are not good enough while others are calling for a boycott on the July 11th release date.
While these plans are pretty terrible, I can’t help but note that they’re probably the best Rogers has offered in the entire time they’ve been in the wireless phone industry. I mean, did anyone actually think the company that until a week ago offered a base Blackberry plan at 2 megabytes per month was actually going to provide an unlimited data buffet?
Also, where were these 20,000 angry voices when data plans started at 500 kilobytes per month?
Frankly, I’m going to have to agree with Ottawa Citizen reporter Vito Piliechi’s assessment that the iPhone isn’t meant for anyone whose going to have trouble paying $100 per month for usable plan anyway.
In the meantime, I’m going to enjoy my new 300 megabyte plan on Blackberry, while will be pretty much impossible to use up with Research In Motion’s Waterloo servers compressing all my data before I get it along with Opera Mini doing the same thing for my full-HTML browsing (seriously, Apple isn’t the only one who can pull that off on a mobile device.)
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