Rogers roaming data charges

Submitted by wtd on 3 March 2013 - 11:33pm

Rogers charges 0.6 cents per kilobyte of roaming data use when their customers are in the United States, which works out to $199.41 for 32.45 megs when I was at Code4Lib 2013 in Chicago.

Screenshot of my Rogers bill for $199.41 for 32.45 megs of roaming data use

32 megabytes is a little more than four minutes of music if if it's encoded losslessly. I used it to run Layar a few times, a bit of Twitter, once to check Google Maps, and once to ssh to a shell and do some email.

The major Canadian mobile phone companies (Rogers, Bell and Telus) charge ridiculous prices for everything.

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous on 4 March 2013 - 5:44am.

I travel across the border often enough that I picked up a T-Mobile SIM last year. After the onetime $35 account setup charge (which I think you can avoid if your savvier than me), I pay $3 / day for unlimited data (200 mb @ 4g, slower after that), calls and text in the US for the days that I'm there... You give up your Canuck number for the time that you're there, but that can be liberating :) Dan Scott, http://coffeecode.net