Who knows what they’ll do with it after, but free tethering of your Rogers cell phone to your computer has been extended. It commenced July 2009, and was set to expire–read, you were going to be *charged*–as of December 31, 2009. But the new decade will bring a new, free extension of wireless [...]
Read the full post...Just the news trumpeted by the title above: the data plan that was supposed to end July 31st on Rogers has been extended to September 15, 2009.
It’s an industry-leading data plan. Even AT&T’s supposedly ‘unlimited’ plan in the United States is capped at 5GB per month.
So for those of you waiting impatiently for Rogers to [...]
If you’ve been sitting on the fence for a year, waiting to subscribe to a Rogers data plan because, well, you really only wanted to use an iPhone as a wifi enabled iPod, but have been secretly craving data all this time, Rogers has a secret for you: their retentions department has added a couple [...]
Read the full post...After Apple released the software upgrade for the iPhone version 3.0, there were many reports of hacks that allowed tethering (using your iPhone as a wireless modem and connecting to the internet anywhere) on AT&T in the United States, even though–unlike in Canada–tethering is not allowed on that wireless provider’s network.
Now there are reports that [...]
I looked around for the best instructions to share about tethering your iPhone to your computer to use it as a modem: that is, if your data plan allows it, you can use your iPhone to connect your computer to the internet. Apple itself wins the day for clearest instructions.
Tethering uses up data from your [...]
It has been ‘confirmed’. We will see new iPhone plans on Rogers and Fido come October 1st. These will replace the joke plans that they are currently offering.
Here are the details:
$60
1GB Data
250 Daytime Minutes
Unlimited Evenings and Weekends from 7
Unlimited Network calling
Visual Voice Mail
75 SMS
Rogers / Fido Hotspots
$75
2GB Data
400 Daytime Minutes
Unlimited Evenings and Weekends from 7
Unlimited [...]
This is the question of our latest poll. I would like to know how many people don’t have a data plan. I believe the number is around 15% of iPhone 3G owners in Canada. People have many reasons for choosing not to have a data plan.
The obvious reasons for not having a data plan are:
Sheer [...]
Read the full post...The special promotional $30 - 6gb data plan is set to expire on August 31st. Then what? Do we go back to paying ridiculous rates for data on Rogers and Fido? Good thing most of us got this plan but what about everyone else? Rogers/Fido might have a hard time selling iPhone’s with their specific [...]
Read the full post...Visual Voicemail will now work on an unlocked first generation iPhone on Rogers or Fido.
Here is the proof:
Here’s how to add it:
1. Update your iPhone to firmware 2.0. You can follow the guide here: http://www.ehphone.ca/2008/07/pwnage/
2. Call in to Rogers or Fido and add the $15 iPhone visual voicemail value pack. The CSR wasn’t sure if [...]
i just want to make sure people know what is going on so we don’t have another $7 plan fiasco. The $30 - 6gb promotional data plan is only available to 3G smartphones that are sold by Rogers/Fido. This plan is not for unlocked phones. Unlocked phones can use the $30 - 300mb plan or [...]
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