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It's taken more than a year for the iPhone to make its way across the world's longest undefended border, which may help explain why so many Canadians are upset this weekend.
On Friday, Rogers Communications (RCI) — Canada's largest mobile carrier and the only one with a contract to sell Apple's (AAPL) iPhone north of that border — announced the details of its voice and data plans. They struck some would-be customers as unreasonably high and unnecessarily restrictive, especially when compared with those in the U.S. and the U.K., and thousands of angry Canadians have made their feelings known in various homegrown websites, including eh Mac, GeekCulture, and blog.r4nt,.
10,000 Canadians petition for iPhone rate relief
Seeded on Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:33 AM EDT
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Canada for some reason only known to the mandarins in the boardrooms of cellular carriers, have the highest rates in the western world. Canucks are being ripped off of their hard earned money by these leeches who have the balls to say that the average user is well served by the plans offered to them. Well I am an average user and I am not well served and I have no recourse other than not having a cell phone, which in today's society is like not having a " land " line 20 years ago. Give us a break... please!
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#1 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:26 AM EDTWe here in the grand rip off New Zealand get completely and utterly raped by both our telcos (Telescum and Vodapricks), $12/MB anyone!! Oh and about 50% of our largest city still cannot get broadband, and those who can is around the speed of dialup. NZ is truely the land of rip off corporates with no remorse.
#2 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:25 AM EDTAgreed. We are continually getting ripped off. High prices for crap service.
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