Gerard’s CC:World

There has been a lot of commenting, discussions and complains about the price plans that Rogers / Fido are offering for the 3G iPhone in Canada. The Ruined iPhone web site is an online petition for Rogers to revise their monthly pricing.

The one huge thing that is a potential show-stopper for me is the 3-year contract that you have to sign to be able to have an iPhone in Canada. I don’t know what will happen in 3 years time, but I am 100% certain that I won’t have the same phone (iPhone 4.0 should be out by then). I would not mind paying more more for the phone now so that I don’t need to get locked in for such a long period of time.

Digging further into the offering, I wanted to do the math behind cost for data usage, to get a better picture of what we are actually talking about… and the findings are quite interesting. All pricing below are in Canadian Dollars.

In a nutshell, if you expect to transfer more than 2.1Gb per month and don’t use the iPhone as a phone a lot (under 150 minutes per month), go with the $60 plan, it’s cheaper! If you transfer 5Gb per month, it will cost you $229.80, $234.30, $251.08 and $235.36 on the $60, $75, $100 and $115 plans respectively.

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Just trying out some features of my blogging server… Sorry to add irrelevant messages to your RSS reader.

Another very busy year has just rushed through and it’s already the start of a new one. I wanted to wish you all a very happy new year… and yes, as there needs to be good resolutions for the new year, here is one from my side: I’ll try to be more active on my blog

OK, Wordpress has this cool feature that enables you to post blog entries by sending an email… so here is a quick try to see if everything works

An initial post on my weblog as it seems to be a requirement if you are somewhat in IT to have a blog, and a few thoughts about blogging, this blog and a few words about myself.
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