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These rumors come from a blog and have been repeated at Boy Genius Report, a phone blog I look at regularly.

It sounds like Apple is cutting back on the stock of iPhones that Rogers will get, and that Rogers dealers are reducing the number of extra staff that were originally going to be used to help out the “iPhone rush” of initial sales. The rumor is that the extraordinarly high priced data plans have caused Apple to rethink how many handsets to allocate to Rogers.

The sad thing is, I think Rogers doesn’t really care how many iPhones it sells. They are happy making piles of money on the highest mobile data rates in the first world. With zero threat of the iPhone coming to another Canadian carrier (iPhone is GSM only) Rogers enjoys a complete lock on it’s availability. Moreover, no preferential data rates for iPhone users are required by Rogers since that would only endanger their current data profitability, something they want to keep as long as possible.

Source: Boy Genius Report and Smithereens Blog

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