Bell, You Can’t Possibly Be Serious
Rogers has recently lowered their Blackberry Enterprise Server rate plans significantly. It used to cost $60 for 25MB, and since the release of the Blackberry Bold, they’ve now got a much more reasonable plan, at $45 for 300MB. Where’s Bell in all this? Still screwing me with my $60 for 30MB plan. After I read about Rogers’ new BES plans, I decided to check out Bell’s site, to make sure they still sucked before I went off on a rant. Aside from Bell’s BES plans still being as bad as always, I also found this quote referring to their System Access Fee being higher than the other Canadian providers underneath the list of plans:
System Access Fees are charged by all wireless companies to help pay for the network and the ongoing software, technology and other upgrades to that network. Generally, the higher the fee, the greater the opportunity to invest in network quality to enhance your experience. Just one more reason to choose Bell.
Really? You’re telling me that I have to pay a higher SAF to access a network that’s only used by a limited number of carriers in North America, when the rest of the world uses GSM? And that’s supposed to be better? Bell, you’re not Ferrari, you can’t charge higher prices and just claim you have better products to justify it. I mean, where’s the Blackberry Bold on Bell? Oh wait, they’re still using the crap-tastic CDMA network which only certain phones (which were released on GSM first) get ported over to, and it’s usually months later! I guess that because I can’t take my phone over to Rogers, and because it’ll cost me $400 to terminate my contract, they can charge whatever they want. Maybe they should put that on their web site so that people can really understand why they’re being screwed.
