Rogers Now Charging for Receiving Texts

Few things I want to bang out of the way first:

1) I’m well aware that Telus and Bell implemented this way before. I don’t feel I’m over-reacting to this new change. It’s horse shit and those under Telus and Bell plans will tell you the same. Just because they got shafted first doesn’t make getting shafted any easier for me.
2) I know I have until July 7th to restructure my contract. The new change doesn’t go into effect until July.
3) Yes, I do need a cell phone. For all you hippies out there who believe it’s the tool of the corporate devil and that I can live without it: I beg to differ.

I initially heard about this on Krishna’s twitter in the morning and decided to check out the details. After checking out the CBC site I was pretty pissed off at what was going on. Wireless plans in Canada are absolutely ludicrous. It’s nothing new, it’s been criticized in the past and I’ve been waiting for these new companies that are supposed to be set up this year to start coming up with better pricing plans so I can switch out of Rogers.

When I went to Hong Kong, my uncle told us to bring our cellphones so that he could gives us Sim Cards to use. He managed to set us up on Pay As You Go, from Sim Cards he bought at the local 7/11. Speaking of 7/11 do you know they charge your cellphones for you in Hong Kong? If you’re running out of batteries just bring it in and they will charge it for you (for a price), isn’t that great? Anyway, within a couple of minutes everything was set up, we had our own numbers and everything and it didn’t cost more than $15 Canadian. No activation fee, none of that system access charge bullshit, just affordable wireless services with a long-distance plan as well. I could also call long distance and text message long distance as well, which I definitely took advantage of, and you know how long this lasted me? Almost two weeks! $15 got me long-distance calls, text messages, God knows how many minutes for almost 2 weeks! Not just sissy long-distance calls either, I talked to my mom for about 30 minutes and passed the phone around as well and was surprised to see that at the end of the call I only spent about $1.

If I was to spend $1 calling long-distance in Canada through my cellphone, the most I can do is breathe into the mic before it starts accumulating. So fuck you Rogers Wireless for taking another step backwards! I can’t wait till I rid myself from this contract.