Well, my e-mail to Rogers has received a response.  This isn't surprising, as their customer support is actually not bad.  Plus they are somewhat obligated to at least respond. I would say least response is probably accurate in this case, too. The e-mail has a strong generic ring to it, and the general message is "this is priced well" and "you don't know how you'll use your iPhone as well as we know, so we are looking out for you".  Sure.  I call bullshit, of course.  Anyhow, here is their response verbatim:  Dear Peter Andersen, Thank you for taking the time to write to us, we appreciate your use of online customer service. In your recent email, you have informed us that you are dissatisfied with the price of our iPhone plans. Rogers has designed a pricing structure that offers high-value, flexible voice and data packages so that Canadians can make the most of their iPhone 3G experience. The majority of carriers offering iPhone 3G worldwide do not have unlimited plans for this device. Some carriers have implemented a soft cap so the plan isnt truly unlimited. For example, in France the soft cap is 500MB where we have a plan that includes 4 times that amount ...

Having just announced their new "high value" iPhone voice/data plans in preparation for the July 11th launch, Rogers has managed to completely disappoint once again.  Not only have they charged excessive rates for small amounts of data, they have LIMITED that data to low numbers.  An unlimited data plan simply does not exist, even though they have existed in the past for other (lesser) phones.  They have adjusted their rates so that we no longer are violated with $.05/kb charges, but even at the new levels the rates are, well, ridiculous.  In a nutshell, if you want an iPhone you are going to be paying at least $60/month.  $60 a month for a very stunted plan of 150 voice minutes, "free" evenings and weekends (if your evenings start at 9pm that is) and a whopping 400mb of data.  Oh, and you can send a whole 75 SMS messages as well.  On a phone that oozes text messaging and data. But not to worry, if you want "more", you can bump it up in small increments all the way to a lovely $115 a month.  That'll give you 800 minutes of voice, 2gb of data and 300 SMS messages.  But you're still ...

I am pleased to say that 6 of my photos from this year's Pender Harbour Blues Festival were published in the local papers last week. Two in The Local, four in the Coast Reporter. [flickr]photo:2585530893[/flickr] [flickr]photo:2585529413[/flickr] Great to see, especially the Coast Reporter article which appeared on the front page of their Arts & Entertainment section. In fact the full page is the article and photos (less the ads at the bottom). Kudos to Carole Rubin for writing a nice article and requesting my photos for submission! Also 'grats out to my brother, Chris Andersen, for writing the article in the Local. Nice job considering you were running on about 2 hours sleep after, oh I don't know, putting together the entire festival. I hope to do a lot more of these, of course, including the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival in September. Should be a blast.