Hah. For the exact same price, Vodafone NZ provides the same 200mn and half the data[0]. 2500 texts though, I don't know what you get on the plan you quoted.
Although technically, to qualify for any phone rebate you need 24 months, which includes a rebate on the plan as well, so you would take the $85 plan for 24 months ($400 off of the phone and $15 off of the plan), yielding a $60 plan (same as the $65 one previously quoted but 300mn voice) and a free iPhone 4 (a 16GB 4S would be $150).
Belgium has cheaper prices (e.g. 40€ prepaid with 285mn, 2000 SMS and 2GB data[1]) but absolutely no phone subsidies (they're pretty much illegal) so an iPhone costs you the full price, 529€[2] (~730 CAD)
> 2500 texts though, I don't know what you get on the plan you quoted.
You get zero texts in the plan he quoted. A texting add-on is a minimum of $5 for... wait for it... 125 texts. Oh, and unsolicited/solicited incoming texts are subtracted from that total, if you don't have a texting plan you pay for them at a rate of 15c each.
No, I'm not kidding.
> Belgium has cheaper prices (e.g. 40€ prepaid with 285mn, 2000 SMS and 2GB data[1]) but absolutely no phone subsidies (they're pretty much illegal) so an iPhone costs you the full price, 529€[2] (~730 CAD)
I'm only a year and a half into my 3G contract, which is three years long and provides no early upgrade. I had to pay $750CDN for my iPhone 4 anyways. Upgrading in Canada is a joke.
Everyone wonders why Canada was one of the first countries to get officially unlocked iPhone 4s without a law in place requiring it. It's no big mystery, Apple saw the situation and realized that without the unlocked option on the table, many people would simply refuse to upgrade because their carrier wouldn't let them for another couple years.
I'm sure someone else already covered the fact that mobile long distance is a concept exclusive to Canada and still exists in the year 2011.
Honestly, besides some token niceties (the 6GB/$30 plan, free tethering, and one of the lowest subsidized prices for the iPhone in the world, $159) we are completely screwed. It's genuinely sad.
However, on the flip side, I have little sympathy for the guy who also owns and operates the North Korean cell network for the political and business elites in that country. WIND is not exactly the moral choice in my eyes IMO.
Although technically, to qualify for any phone rebate you need 24 months, which includes a rebate on the plan as well, so you would take the $85 plan for 24 months ($400 off of the phone and $15 off of the plan), yielding a $60 plan (same as the $65 one previously quoted but 300mn voice) and a free iPhone 4 (a 16GB 4S would be $150).
Belgium has cheaper prices (e.g. 40€ prepaid with 285mn, 2000 SMS and 2GB data[1]) but absolutely no phone subsidies (they're pretty much illegal) so an iPhone costs you the full price, 529€[2] (~730 CAD)
[0] https://www.vodafone.co.nz/phones-plans/plans/smart/
[1] https://mobilevikings.com/en/offer/price-plans/full-option/
[2] http://store.apple.com/be-fr/product/MD128