As expected, there are so much news about the iPhone today since it has just launched here. It’s not a pretty one too as it seems like almost everything that can go wrong with a product launch is happening. What was interesting to me though was how Rogers, the cell phone provider you must use here for the iPhone, dropped the monthly fee by half due to pressure.

It used to be at minimum $60/month and that has apparently dropped to $30/month for a limited time period. I guess that shows you that if enough people put pressure on a certain business that you can semi control the prices that you pay.

I was just reading about the new data rate plans for the iPhones that are going to come out here and wow are they ever expensive. There is an article online at the globe and mail where you can read more about it.

The lowest plan is $60/month which gives you 400MB of data and 150 phone minutes with unlimited evenings and weekends. Not only that, but apparently you have to sign up for a three year contract as well.

I honestly thought that the iPhone would create some kind of unlimited data plan here in Canada since the demand for the product is probably going to be pretty high. Then again, a lot of people had no problem paying hundreds of dollars in service fees for it before and so I guess as long as enough people think it is a fair price it will stick.

Judging by the comments on that site, it doesn’t look like there are many happy campers.