It's Good To Be A Monopoly: Rogers Prices iPhone Service At 2 Ar...

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 14:28

There's been a fair amount of complaining about the pricing of the new iPhone 3G over the last few weeks. While plenty of people were initially enamored by the cheaper price for the actual phone in the US (and in some other countries), this subsidized low price often hid higher service fees (with a locked contract) that came with it.

However, it appears that the folks at Rogers Communication up in Canada really went overboard in its service pricing: offering...

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