Rogers Still Sucks
I get a kick out of the various sites proclaiming what criminals Rogers Communications are. Specifically their wireless division. I’ve asserted for some time that the problem is deeper than that: The whole company stinks. From customer service to the jackasses running their websites. It’s a terrible customer experience. Why, in the midst of the Bell DSL throttling scandal the CRTC doesn’t do something to improve competition in this country is a huge question worthy of your MP. Rogers is doing the exact same thing (at a cost to your privacy), and requiring customers to pay $60 for a relatively “lightly-throttled” line. The only reason Rogers isn’t involved in that suit is because they’re not leasing their cables to third parties who might complain. There is no safe and reasonably priced third party for data in Canada, wireless or otherwise.
The funniest aspect of the Rogers iPhone debacle is the marketing counter-measures they’re using and using poorly. Phrases like,
“The [prices announced Friday] are only the plans that we think make the most sense for users,” said spokesperson Elizabeth Hamilton. (source: CBC - Rogers draws fire for iPhone rates)
From the “Why Can’t I Buy This?” department
If you’ve seen the movie There Will Be Blood, you probably wish that you had a full set of “There Will Be Blood” action figures, just like me. Imagine re-enacting the baptism scene with Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday. “I’ve abandoned my boy!”
Or sitting a fully poseable Daniel Plainview down in front of a room full of townsfolk and acting out the “You might say I’m an oilman” speech. Or, with the Oil Well Prospector’s Kit, working a dig and experiencing the heady rush of a full oil strike!
And who could get tired of setting up the final scene in the Oilman’s Bowling Alley and explaining “drainage” to a mortified Eli Sunday?
Good times.
