After some anger broke out about the pricing to be implemented on the Rogers Wireless data plans for the iPhone, the company has rethought through it all and decided to charge $30/6GB. But now it seems the old pricing may not have been too off base if the Rogers’ data usage info is correct.
The original plans were known to be quite pricey, causing many a Canadian iPhone user to grumble. But check out the stats Rogers has compiled for the first month of data use in percentages:
- 1.2% of customers used more than 1GB.
- 95% of customers used less than 500MB.
- 91.2% of customers used less than 100MB.
Looks like their prior idea to have a 400MB plan was actually pretty close to correct. But that doesn’t matter now. iPhone users in Canada can use their data like it’s going out of style.
[via Engadget Mobile]
1.2% + 95% + 91.2% = ? ….. profit!
How many of those users held back on their data usage in fear of going over?
I use my iPhone’s data all the time. I use data intensive apps and I use it daily as a modem, tethered to my MacBookPro.
Prior to tethering, I was surprised to find out I was using about 150-200MB per month. Using tethering, I use closer to 1GB.