Count me in.
I paid over $1000 total for three months to Rogers for data overusages over a 3-month period (Dec 2004, Jan 2005, Feb 2005) before I significantly curbed my data usage. I have already tried to petition Rogers, but we can all do it again, since there are probably dozens more users exceeding the 25-meg cap thanks to the Rogers 8700r model.
The Over-25-Megabyte BlackBerry Data Club
And:
- Communications With Rogers on $300-per-Month Bills
- Rogers Market Analysis PDF
- Modern 2005-era BlackBerries More Likely To Be Used More Heavily [PHOTOS]
The landscape has changed for the worse:
- High speed models of BlackBerries are on the market -- EDGE in 8700r -- encourages more data usage.
- BlackBerry Browser, by default, now downloads more data (tables, JavaScript, CSS, etc). This means many webpages gobble well over 100 kilobytes. A few minutes of surfing on the bus or train, everyday, easily exceeds 1 or 2 megabytes per day.
- Google Maps is now available for BlackBerry at www.google.com/glm. Doing fully graphical scrollable Google Maps, gobble a horrendous amount of data. I have used 10% of my monthly cap in just 10 minutes, sometimes!
- Some downloadable BlackBerry games are 700 kilobytes now, including Asteroids from mobile.blackberry.net. If you download 3 games, you already got an immediate 10% monthly hit.
- Treo users can get a 100 megabytes plan. Why can't BlackBerry users get this? Today's multimedia 8700r model can do a lot of the same things Treo can do.
- Fido users can roam on Rogers, and get a true unlimited plan without a 25megabyte cap. Why no BlackBerry option on Fido?
- BlackBerry is more consumer friendly nowadays than in the past. More individual users nowadays for BlackBerry. It's no longer reasonable for Rogers to take advantage of business users' willingness to pay extra.
Roger's network can handle the extra capacity, since many users won't use more than 25megs, while others will be using more than 25megs.
Is there any grounds for class action lawsuit? This was supposed to be called "Unlimited", but it is not actually unlimited. Plus, the "excessive usage" loophole is moot, it is no longer "excessive usage" to go beyond 25 megabytes, given the changed circumstances today. Rogers is a GSM monopoly in Canada (they own Fido too). So this is an anti-competitive pratice. I believe we have grounds for a lawsuit, no?