Rogers VP attacks online ‘rumour mongering’
p2pnet news view | P2P:- The real story isn’t efforts by major Canadian ISPs to blatantly cheat their customers.
It isn’t the fact Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility —- emboldened, perhaps, by the fact no one on George W. Harper’s government seems inclined to make a serious effort to stop the major ISPs from riding rough-shod over their own customers —- are trying to get into the act.
The real story is: The Medium is the Message, to re-apply the famous phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan.
The two venal providers are being foiled because for the first time in history, the people are in power and calling the shots.
And it’s only just started.
“Guess how many iPhones Rogers stores will have available to try to sell to Canadians?” – p2pnet posted on Monday, going on, “10 – 12 each. Not ten to twelve hundred. Just 10 to 12.”
We were quoting Smithereens blogger Daniel Smith.
Apple has decided to pull its iPhone 3Gs, Jesus Phones, as they’ve been dubbed, from its six Canadian retail stores for Friday’s launch because Apple is, “disgusted with Rogers Wireless for dumping egregious service plans on would-be iPhone 3G buyers,” we said in another story, referencing AppleInsider.
Apple joining the online consumer revolution?
Surely not.
But the company has, “decided that its Canadian retail stores will have no part in helping the carrier market the new handset to customers,” it said.
And according to a p2pnet Reader’s Write, a mere 2,000 Jesus Phones will be available to ‘early adopter’ Macolytes.
But, ‘Bullshit!!!,’ declares Rogers spokesman John Boynton.
As senior vice-president and chief marketing officer, he should know.
Actually, he didn’t really say that. Not in so many words, anyway.
But he might well have.
The Ottawa Citizen has Boynton angrily contesting Net reports of a major rift between Rogers and Apple.
However, “there is no truth to Internet reports that Apple has pared back the number of iPhones coming to Canada,” he says in the story, which goes on >>>
“Despite popular rumour mongering, which is always a popular sport on the Internet, we have more than enough inventory,” said John Boynton, senior vice-president and chief marketing officer for Rogers. “In fact, we are getting our inventory plus some.”
Online sites such as Smithereensblog.blogspot.com have been reporting on the relationship between Apple and Rogers, stating that Rogers’ cellular data pricing is too high and that Apple is not happy about them. The blog has since retracted most of its story, now referring to it as a “plausible rumour.”
In point of fact, “I am going to post a very plausible rumour that has caught my ear about the upcoming 3G iPhone launch on the Rogers network here in Canada,” said Daniel Smith, the guy who runs Smithereens, right at the beginning of the scandal, and well before Boynton added his $2, to allow for inflation.
But having slagged ‘rumour mongering’ and, by implication, blogs and bloggers, “We are definitely responding,” Boynton admits.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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