Rogers

Mini-Me arrives!

November 25, 2008

Over the past weekend I picked up one of the new HP Mini 1000 netbooks.  As much as I love my HP DV6000 entertainment laptop with its massive 17″ screen, it is heavy (12 cell battery), near impossible to work with on an airplane without paying for a business class seat or being lucky enough [...]

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Please sir, may I have an iPhone?

November 17, 2008

Sometimes reality really is stranger than fiction.  Take, for example, my efforts to buy an an iPhone from Rogers for my son.  You may recall that a little two over two weeks ago I paid a visit to the Barrhaven Rogers store with Jon, money in hand, to buy an iPhone.  On that occasion, we [...]

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Comrade Rogers’ Soviet contracts

November 4, 2008

It goes without saying that cellular contracts are consumer unfriendly with their myriads of coercive clauses designed to lock customers into long term relationships. Every so often the byzantine array of rules they ask  you to sign up for, however, reaches new heights of absurdity. Case in point: This weekend I took my 18 year [...]

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Rogers cuts BES data prices. Enough to quell the complaints?

October 7, 2008

Rogers cuts data prices for BlackBerry Enterprise Server users. Now only SLIGHTLY more expensive than BlackBerry with BIS.

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Rogers to deliver Nokia Maps to Canadians

September 11, 2008

Nokia’s on a bit of a roll at CTIA, unveiling a series of announcements, including an agreement with Rogers here in Canada to launch their NGAGE and Maps applications to Canadian customers.  Rogers has but one Nokia smartphone available — the N95 8Gb — but nonetheless it’s a welcome development to see these applications come [...]

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How iPhone’s pricing screws RIM

June 19, 2008

The rumours around Rogers pricing for Canadian data are certainly encouraging, and I’m as happy as the next guy at the reports that Rogers is finally going to drop its data rates to reasonable levels.  According to various reports, iPhone 3G data will be priced at the same levels as AT&T in the US: $30/month [...]

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Squawk Box May 5th

May 5, 2008

Yahoo and Microsoft’s dead deal. How could we not think of discussing it? And so we did. We discussed the possibility of shareholder lawsuits, the price of the shares, morale at both companies, and whether or not the executives involved should keep their jobs. We also heard from Jim Courtney about the ground breaking announcement [...]

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Verizon forbearance and the FCC

December 3, 2007

There's an interesting regulatory battle going on south of the border. "Forbearance" is a provision in the 1996 Telecom Act that allows the FCC to set aside the competition rules when enforcement of the rule is not required to protect the public interest.  Incumbent's have learned how to use the forbearance provisions of the the [...]

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Boston, McDonalds and iPhone

October 29, 2007

It was early evening last night when I slipped into the McDonald's across the street from my Boston hotel.  Inside it was pandemonium. The half dozen young women behind the counter serving customers were having a fierce argument.  As the words — an ebonics spiced stew of english and spanish — flew back and forth [...]

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Rogers Portable Internet

October 6, 2007

It's Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada, which means that once again we're visiting the in-laws in Kitchener, Ontario.  As I've mentioned previously, that means no internet.  This time around it also made a great excuse to try Rogers new Portable Internet product.  Rogers Portable Internet runs over the Inukshuk WiMax network, jointly owned by Rogers [...]

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