Rumor: TELUS Picking up the iPhone 3GS This October?
By James Falconer on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 7:03 AM PST In Apple, Rogers, Rumors, Telus, iPhone
Canadian iPhone fans that are pining for the new iPhone 3GS, but are locked in over at TELUS (NYSE: TU) with no desire to make a switch to Rogers (NYSE: RCI) (heck, who needs another monthly bill, right?)… Good news may be coming your way. A shiny-new rumor has surfaced detailing that TELUS might be getting the iPhone 3GS this October, making them the second carrier to push the iPhone in Canada. Mmmmmm, competition!
This could be a bit of a shocker to say the least, because we all thought Rogers had that whole exclusivity thing down-pat… But again, chalk this up to rumor and nothing else. The information comes to us via a reliable tipster over at HowardForums, but tipsters are often wrong.
For what it’s worth, the rumor has TELUS picking up the iPhone 3GS this October once they get their HSPA network up. At the moment, TELUS is a CDMA-only carrier.
Again, this is very much a rumor. Chalk it up as speculation at best, but it sure would be nice to see some competition against Rogers on the iPhone scene. Might help drive down those crazy monthly rates, no?
[Via: BGR]
For all those of you, and for the people who wrote this article are concerned about the “exclusivity” of the iPhone on Rogers, when the iPhone first came out, in every country, the contract WAS exclusive. However, I heard from an agent at a BellAliant store that Apple was VERY unhappy with the way Rogers has been treating their iPhone customers and she said that although they are allowed to sell the iPhone 3GS, they no longer have the exclusive contract they did last year.
So it seems perfectly sensible to me that if Telus is turning on a new HSPA network in October, which the other rumors would have us believe, the iPhone 3GS would be the perfect flag of war to wave once they turn the switch on.
I, for one, am thoroughly excited about this.
well HSPA is getting turned on early september….Its already up in some areas.
Hey,
I really hope Bell or Telus get GSM to have some competition with rogers.
This is great! I switched from Rogers to Telus because of bad customer service & cost. I hate to switch back for the iPhone. Even if its next year, I don’t mind the wait as long as they sign the deal.
I’d like to switch from Rogers to Telus because of bad customer service & cost.
I almost bought into the Fido iPhone plan until I remembered I have 2 years left on a Telus contract. You can guess who’ll be first in line when it happens.