"Rogers Wireless is changing the eligibility of its HUP program.
Effective August 21, 2009, a minimum tenure of 24 months since initial activation or last upgrade will be required before a customer is eligible to participate in the hardware upgrade program. This change aligns all upgrades (voice, voice to data and data to data) with the current data to data HUP policy.
According to the internal bulletin, Rogers is implementing the change to the HUP for two reasons.
•Rogers Wireless heavily invests in providing the latest data devices at affordable prices to our data customers. This update to the Hardware Upgrade Program is designed to offer a consistent upgrade eligibility to an outstanding selection of the most advanced devices for the best value.
•In addition to the outstanding selection of available devices, there has also been improved level of quality and technology that has gone into the line-up over the past years allowing a longer hardware lifespan.
I always love reading companies internal documentations as there is always a few sentences that give you a good chuckle. Take this one from the Rogers’ bulletin for example.
This change also reinforces the importance of explaining to customers that HUP eligibility and quoted hardware/plan pricing are subject to change without notice and cannot be guaranteed beyond the time of quotation.
To me that paragraph means that Rogers’ is implementing the new HUP policy to remind consumers who is in charge. The change has nothing to do with devices costing more or the “longer hardware lifespan” it is just another way Rogers can make an easy buck.
As mentioned earlier in the post, the updated HUP upgrade policy is effective August 21st and will only apply to regular consumers, business accounts will not be affected. I recommend if you are considering upgrading you current Rogers’ device you do so before August 21st because even though you may have been eligible for an upgrade you may no longer be able to under the new policy."
Man_Devil
wrong thread.
dEsidEL
Great article and inspiring story about Globalive:
I really hope this guy succeeds in the face of the incumbents which are trying to do everything they can to stop him. Kudos to entrepreneurs like him who try and innovate and change the landscape.
smuncky
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Originally posted by dEsidEL
Great article and inspiring story about Globalive:
I really hope this guy succeeds in the face of the incumbents which are trying to everything they can to stop him. Kudos to entrepreneurs like him who try and innovate and change the landscape.
i'm really hoping they can have their launch soon, at least in the big cities.
dEsidEL
WIND Mobile: What I Can Tell You About Our Service
Does anyone know if you can still get a student plan if you have your old student card but have recently finished school? Do they actually double check with your school to make sure you are an active student?
E2EK1EL
Augmented Traffic Views for Android could be the coolest AR app we’ve seen yet
Augmented Reality is quickly becoming a hot ticket item in the mobile world and we’ve seen various nifty applications of the technology previewed recently. The key of course, is finding useful and valuable ways to apply AR concepts to mobile devices. Today, a preview of another infinitely useful AR app is making the rounds and we’re digging it big time. While the app name isn’t overly creative — Augmented Traffic Views — the application itself is fantastic. Built for the Android platform, Augmented Traffic Views combines a layer of AR above the device’s camera view with live traffic camera images and traffic data. Simply hold the Android handset up and the AR layer displays all available traffic camera points in the direction you’re looking. Tap one to see the most current available image taken by the cam. The app also packs some added features, such as an automated predictive tracking mode that will pop up traffic cam images ahead while you’re driving. Brilliant. Potentially dangerous, but brilliant. For the time being, Toronto is the only city covered by the app and there’s no word on when it might be available to the public. Hit the jump for the video and keep your fingers crossed that the developer decides to bring his work stateside to hit some major US metro areas as well.
E2EK1EL
Palm Pre LIVE
*Sorry if any of the images are blurry, had to take a few quick snapshots*
Paid a little vist to Bell to see the Pre today. This unit is no joke at all. Of course I did a reboot to really give this a fair chance for my test run.
Really amazing design, feels nice in the hands and really damn solid.
WebOS is ultra smooth in everyway, no wonder why Apple got alittle nervous and bumped up the iPhone's hardware and epecially the software ... just in time for the Pre's debute.
I was pretty amazed Palm made such a nice product and indeed the GSM ver will be off the hook. It's the first real rival for the iPhone and as I said before, it's no joke.
smuncky
In Japan, Sweden and other developed countries one can get 100 Mbps down/10 Mbps up fiber-to-the-home internet connections for the same price we pay for 5 Mbps down/1 Mbps up DSL "broadband" here in Canada. That's 20 times faster download and 10 times faster upload for the same price. Even the United Kingdom has seen broadband prices fall 40% in the last 4 years (ref: http://money.uk.msn.com/mortgages/b...entid=149237128) and Australia's government is building a $31 billion infrastructure of fiber-optic connections for its citizens (ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/t...&ref=technology).
The evolution of internet services Canadian citizens are given access to is being crippled by monopolies like Bell, Rogers & Telus (Big 3) and corrupt Government factions like the CRTC. Bell Canada's telephone network was funded by the Government and paid for by our tax dollars, and now they're using that same infrastructure to price-gouge the same people that paid for the network in the first place: us Canadian citizens. Both Bell & Rogers have been doing deep-packet inspection of all internet traffic on their network (the equivalent of the post man reading your mail), invading consumer privacy and discriminating against certain internet services. The FCC in the United States forced ISPs there to stop all deep-packet inspection activities (even president Obama said in a speech "[...] we have to ensure free and full exchange of information and that starts with an open Internet"). Ref: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/...hrottling.html.
Now the CRTC has approved Bell's latest anti-competitive tactic to charge ALL retail and wholesale customers based on usage. That means anyone that uses more than 60 GB of combined download and upload data per month is going to see their internet bills increase come November 2009. Ref: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/...net-usage.html.
It's time for everyone to speak out against Bell and the CRTC. It's time for Canadian consumers to voice their opinions. We need more competition, not less, in the Canadian telecom industry to improve the state of internet services in Canada. We need internet service prices to come down in this recession, not go up. We, as a country, can't allow our internet services to fall so far behind all the world's developed countries. 5 Mbps out-dated DSL internet is being deployed in 3rd world countries, yet we still consider that broadband here in Canada!
