After causing potential iPhone 3G customers to rise up in horror at the proposed costs for its notes packages, Rogers Wireless is doing a whole lot of backtracking with a new, albeit-temporary, promotional plan.  Customers who sign up before the end of August will be able to choose a new, $30 monthly details plan on top of a standard voice tariff, that bundles 6GB of documents.

It’s not unlimited, no, but Rogers are keen to point out that 6GB is abundant to do plenty of data-intensive stuff:

“For example, with 6GB of notes, iPhone 3G users can visit 35,952 web pages, or send and receive 157,286 emails, or watch 6,292 minutes of YouTube videos each and every month” Rogers Wireless press release

Visual Voicemail, however, is being treated as separate

from goods, and as such is being priced at $8 a month.  Text messages too will be separate rather than bundled.  There’s no word on what - whether anything - will take the 6GB plan’s place once the promotion ends.  Incidentally, it’s not just new iPhone owners who can take advantage of the 6GB plan.  Any user signing up before August 31st can add it to their voice package.

The carrier additionally announced that six stores will be opening at 8am on Friday to cater for early customers.  These are:

• Toronto: 112-10 Dundas Street East
• Montreal: 1015 rue St. Catherine Ouest
• Ottawa: 690 Bank Street
• Halifax: Unit 265, 7001 Mumford Road
• Calgary: 5244 Falsbridge Gate, NE
• Vancouver: 2097 West Broadway

Original post by Chris Davies