Windows Phone Thoughts: Rogers Canada to Offer $30 Unlimited Data Plans...for iPhones

Yeah, I know most of you are sick of seeing the word "iPhone" on this site, but this is news worth sharing for our Canadian readers. I've been waiting for this moment for over a year now: I knew that our one and only GSM phone provider here (Rogers/Fido, same company) couldn't release the iPhone with the same insanely expensive data rates they've kept us shackled with for years, and believe it or not I was rooting for Apple to come up here and shake things up. It looks like my wish was granted: if the information in this thread is accurate, Rogers will be offering two flat-rate data plans: one consumer-based plan for $30 per month that offers "Unlimited Data (E-mail/Web), includes Visual Voicemail", and one enterprise-based plan for $45 per month that offers "Unlimited Data with personal and corporate e-mail, web, includes Visual Voicemail". I'm not sure what qualifies as "corporate email", but even if I have to pay $45 per month, I'll do it gladly.

If they somehow shackle this data plan to the iPhone hardware it might present a problem, but I'm confident someone will figure out a clever way to get this type of plan working on any GSM phone. Or maybe in a stroke of business sense, Rogers will realize that it's ridiculous to offer certain data plans restricted to certain types of phones and everyone will have access to flat-rate data for $30 to $45/month. I'm not holding my breath though...