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Rogers One Rate roaming plans “shatter people’s perception”

By on February 23, 2010 at 9:15am in Mobile News, Rogers Wireless News, Various News

Rogers officially announced their “One Rate” roaming plans today, we mentioned these in a post a few weeks back. Roaming is a big concern for wireless customers, mainly because our rates are incredibly high to begin with.Think about stepping outside your country and paying even more when hopping on another network. The “One Rate” plans allows you to use data in the U.S. like you do here in Canada (it all gets deducted from the same data bucket).

John Boynton, EVP of Marketing for Rogers said “Our customers have told us they are uncertain as to whether to use their smartphones while travelling in the United States… we are pleased to introduce breakthrough North American One Rate wireless data plans. These plans provide cost certainty to the frequent business traveller, Canadian snowbird or cross-border vacationer to the United States who wants to keep in touch with work, family and friends. These new offers shatter people’s perception of wireless data roaming when visiting the United States.”

Check out the plans below… do they shatter your perception of wireless data roaming?
$20 per month: Personal Email on BlackBerry (Canadian and U.S.)
$35 per month: Consumer or Small business BlackBerry (BIS) 500MB Canadian and U.S.
$35 per month: Consumer or Small business 500MB Canadian and U.S. Data Plan
$40 per month: Consumer or Small business BB (BIS) 1GB Canadian and U.S. Plan
$40 per month: Consumer or Small business 1GB Canadian and U.S. Data Plan
$45 per month: 500MB Canadian and U.S. Mobile Internet Flex Rate Plan
$50 per month: DAP (for MSD customers) 1.5GB Canadian and U.S. Data Plan
$55 per month: Corporate BlackBerry (BES) 1GB Canadian and U.S. Plan
$55 per month: Corporate BB (BES) 500 MB Canadian and U.S. Flex Rate Plan

Related posts:

  1. Rogers introduces new Roaming plans called “One Rate”
  2. TELUS introduces new $1.45/min flat rate U.S. roaming fee November 5th
  3. Koodo to change rate plans effective July 20th
  4. Breakdown of the TELUS “Clear Choice Rate Plans”

Discussion

19 comments for “Rogers One Rate roaming plans “shatter people’s perception””

  1. about $10 more than I would expect nice to see Data Roaming getting cheaper though.

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    Posted by Nadim | February 23, 2010, 9:23 am
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  2. Earth shattering? no… but a step in the right direction for sure!

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    Posted by sickens | February 23, 2010, 9:30 am
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  3. So what’s Bell’s response? The public has known about this for a few weeks now, so Bell must have caught wind of it well before that.

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    Posted by Dorbit | February 23, 2010, 9:57 am
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  4. They must be addons to ride on your normal plan.

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    Posted by Larry | February 23, 2010, 10:00 am
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  5. meh, sucks…
    If youre a businessman, you dont really care, if you’re a regular user you overpay @ $40-$45 for data usage. Best response you’ll get is from WindMobile, because of their partnership with T-Mo.

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    Posted by grush | February 23, 2010, 10:27 am
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  6. I am curious to see what happens with the 30$/6Gb special offer dataplan.

    40$ per month for 6Gb North America sounds pretty good to me.

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    Posted by Labrat | February 23, 2010, 10:29 am
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  7. What about Europe?

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    Posted by Tom | February 23, 2010, 10:30 am
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  8. I would rather not give up my 6gb for $30 deal to get roaming in the U.S. but I guess it’s good for a frequent traveler though I think you would have to travel there quite often to make it worthwhile versus the roaming add-on already offered by Rogers.

    I’d rather have an unlocked phone and get a pay-as-you-go data plan.

    Or maybe pay WIND’s $0.10 per 25kb.

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    Posted by Pearl | February 23, 2010, 10:40 am
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  9. Great news! Now time for Bell to match this. I am getting sick of $40+ data roaming fees…

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    Posted by Frank N | February 23, 2010, 10:44 am
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  10. Another step in the right direction. I never travel, but neat none the less. We need reductions that target the average consumer, however.

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    Posted by Pederson | February 23, 2010, 10:48 am
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  11. I contacted Fido this morning about this, and they have no plans to introduce similar plans.

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    Posted by Chris | February 23, 2010, 11:29 am
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  12. Fyi guys these are NOT addons they replace your current data plans… these are pretty good… considering data cost are approx 6$ per MB in the US especially with an Iphone that uses alot of data

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    Posted by Sam | February 23, 2010, 11:47 am
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  13. I travel to the US frequently

    this will (and has already) saved me a Ton of money. Especially with GPS and email.

    Thank you Wind for the competition

    I like to ask everyone with the 6gb plan, tethering not withstanding, how many of you are even CLOSE to that 6gb limit.

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    Posted by Lorne Cohen | February 23, 2010, 4:40 pm
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  14. it’s not bad.

    it normally cost $25 for 500MB within Canada so, for $35, you’ll get 500MB of data anywhere in US and Canada…

    but i wonder how this work with grandfather data value packs…

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    Posted by Joanne | February 23, 2010, 7:15 pm
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  15. Magically they “forgot” to address the $30/6GB data plan. I would potentially be interested in paying an extra $10 for the months that I am travelling in the US, but there is no way I am giving up the 6 Gb.

    Granted that most months I sit around 1 Gb, but there are months that I tether and if Rogers ever rolls out streaming TV I can see that adding another chunk of data to the monthly tally. Unless I could manage to drop my data consistently to under 500 Mb I am not giving up the plan.

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    Posted by bj | February 23, 2010, 11:28 pm
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  16. This is a ploy to get some of you to give up that $30/6GB data plan!

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    Posted by Keith | February 24, 2010, 5:49 pm
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  17. hmm interesting…but what if you dare to travel outside of CANADA and USA?? What about travel to Euro zone or Africa?? Canadian rates (aka ROGERS et al) ARE A RIP OFF !! like most things in Canada, its all a monopoly that stifles competition!! Nanny state for the 21st century!! Bah to roaming! use a local pay phone and your laptop! oh and by the way, it doesnt matter how much you pre-pay for add-ons, they ALWAYS find some way to charge you MORE $$$$.

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    Posted by steven hodgson | February 25, 2010, 3:37 am
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  18. @Lorne Cohen : Not often but on those occasions that I get close, it’s well worth keeping the plan if you think of the overages I would have had to pay!!

    I use to have a temp office space that didn’t make sense to set up wired internet with Bell or Rogers so I tethered. And when you’re on a laptop, you go through MBs like nobodies business.

    And it’s sort of attempting to future-proof too. What if my phone, in 3 months, could watch steaming t.v. or movies?

    I would be a fool to give up my plan… except to go to WIND or maybe the new DAVE wireless.

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    Posted by Pearl | February 25, 2010, 11:04 pm
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  19. iPhone users screwed again.

    I just got confirmation from Rogers that they are not currently offering an add-on for iPhone users who have the 6 gig plan. Rogers never seems to get that the people on that plan are the early adopters, they are also the customers that tend to spend the most money, and are the most vocal and loyal.

    The interesting thing is, Rogers first instinct is always to screw or ignore iPhone users but they have always been quick to change that if there is a public outcry.

    If you are on Twitter, send @ replies to @rogersbuzz that they need to take care of iPhone users.

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    Posted by Justin Luey | February 27, 2010, 3:16 pm
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