It's all still rumors and hearsay until Canada's Rogers and FIDO officially announce their iPhone 3G pricing structure, but that doesn't mean this latest leak isn't on the reals.
Howard Forums' prolific rumor-monger, i.Fido, has posted what could be an internal document detailing the pricing structure for the Canadian launch of the iPhone 3G on Rogers and FIDO. True to Jobs's word that $199 would be the max price for the 8GB iPhone 3G, Rogers and FIDO will be asking $199 for the 8GB iPhone 3G and $299 for the 16GB version on all new activations and qualified upgrades for existing 2 or 3-year agreements.
And, in a rather surprising move from Rogers, the "Consumer Data Plan" is priced the same as its AT&T counterpart - that's $30 for those of you not keeping track at home - and will offer unlimited data, web, email access with Visual Voicemail to boot (when used with a voicemail service). Enterprise users looking to access an Exchange server will have to pop for the $45 "Enterprise Data Plan" that will offer the same unlimited data as the "consumer" plan, but also opens the doors to Exchange email.
3-year contracts and in-store activations on at most three iPhone 3G handsets are pretty much what we expected from Rogers and FIDO, no surprises there.
So, $199 for an 8GB iPhone 3G with a $30 unlimited data plan on top of your voice plan, sound good? Sounds good to us (except for that whole 3-year contract nonsense).
[Posted by Will on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pm under Rogers, Rumors, iPhone, Apple]