10 Comments

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   Imagine Engine says: August 4th, 2012 a 11:49am

   There’s a lot coming out from Rogers lately. I’d like to know if Rogers has plans to release Anyplace TV app on iOS for the Apple TV? Apple recently made broadcast deals with Hulu Plus in the USA and the Skynow TV service which is based in the UK. This is a viable market which Rogers should consider investing in before Bell or Telus offer their own streaming TV service on the popular Apple TV. Benefit to Rogers is that you reach even more consumers and generate revenue through subscription based live and recorded TV content over IP. This can also win back customers who cancelled cable or get new customers who are not in your cable area (outside Ontario) another low cost alternative since no cable equipment and no tech install is required.
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     RogersNicolas says: August 5th, 2012 a 11:06am

     Hi,

     Thanks for your feedback! We don’t comment on the potential release of plans but we’ll make sure to keep everyone posted.
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   random72 says: August 5th, 2012 a 3:36am

   “Though currently not available to Canadians, you’ll recall back in May that Rogers announced our partnership with CIBC for the upcoming launch of Canada’s first mobile payment solution as well.”

   More ‘we’re so awesome’ marketing fluff.

   With the pace of innovation in this laggard, overregulated, competition-free country, it’ll be 10 years (at least) before anyone other than a handful of Executive VPs at Rogers and CIBC have access to this technology.

   The world is leaving us in Canada in the dust- as per usual.

   But what do we hear from Rogers all the time? Lots of ‘coming soon’ garbage, along with ‘we’re creating world-leading experiences’.

   Really? Who else is saying that besides Rogers? Is any independent, credible source that isn’t housed in the bowels of the Rogers campus will to put their name to that unverified boast?

   No, of course not.

   I dare anyone at Rogers to produce an impartial, international source for that boast. Take your time.

   The only ‘innovation’ in Canada is the hand-me-down stuff that arrives three years after it was created somewhere else (usually the US or Europe), and companies like Rogers get to brag about ‘bringing it to Canadians’ complete with the world’s highest prices.

   Hey- how’s that town-by-town, gettin’-er-done-in-3-5-years national LTE network coming along?

   No more suburbs to announce? Aw, that’s too bad.

   Sorry, couldn’t resist. Such an easy target.
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   random72 says: August 5th, 2012 a 3:44am

   Google Wallet has already been out in the US for almost a year.

   By the time the nanny state bureaucrats are done strangling the technology and the techno-laggards in this country (like Rogers) finally figure out how it works and declare it safe for consumption by tender Canadians, it will have circled the globe.

   But that won’t stop some Executive VP nobody at Rogers from proclaiming that they’re creating ‘world-leading experiences’ even as Canada becomes an increasing technological backwater.

   This company has no shame.
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   random72 says: August 5th, 2012 a 3:47am

   Thanks for deleting my comments.

   Only happy-face boosterism allowed apparently.

   Gawd, this comapany is sooo pathetic.
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     RogersNicolas says: August 5th, 2012 a 11:02am

     Hi random72,

     None of your comments were deleted. You posted late at night and we didn’t have anyone online to approve them at that time.

     Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help!
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   Lyndon says: August 5th, 2012 a 6:28pm

   I cant wait to try my One X on LTE at the end of this month…hopefully its still on for the end of august.
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   random72 says: August 11th, 2012 a 2:18am

   No one dares to counter anything I’ve said about all of these so-called innovations that are ‘coming soon’, I see.

   Not surprising, I suppose. I am right, after all.

   But, on the off chance, do let me know if anyone at Rogers is willing it address anything I’ve said.

   Don’t worry- I’m not holding my breath.
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     Gustav says: August 13th, 2012 a 9:33pm

     Random72, you will notice the relatively unregulated US banking industry got itself into trouble in the last several years. I’d rather Canada too it’s time t ensure we have a safe and secure system of payment before jumping head first in the latest fad tomhitnthe streets in the US.

     And before you ask, no I don’t work for Rogers, or a bank.
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       random72 says: August 14th, 2012 a 12:53pm

       Gustav, my issue with Rogers is that these so-called innovations are described in the most breathless, ‘we’re awesome’ kind of way, as if they don’t exist elsewhere and haven’t been pioneered by someone else.

       The pace of innovation in this country crawls big time for the reasons I’ve outlined, except that no one connected to this project is willing to admit that it’s nothing less than a long-term deal.

       This mobile payment project Rogers and CIBC are working on isn’t going to change our lives in meaningful ways anytime soon- any talk to the contrary is done purely to make the press release seem impressive.

       Canadians need to stop thinking we’re the ‘envy of the world’ and ‘the world looks to Canada’.

       Stop- please.

       Get out in the world a little and you’ll find most people know very little about Canada and think about it even less.

       Yes, I am Canadian, but that doesn’t mean I have some overinflated sense of where my country ranks in the grand scheme of things.

       For all of its flaws and problems, the US remains one of the world’s biggest innovators when it comes to technology. We benefit so much from being right next door, yet we spend most of our time feeling smugly superior while our own tiny tech industry, which consists of RIM and little else, withers away.

       Not exactly a cause for celebration in my mind.