Wireless Review: Rogers says low-cost, data-only plans were not the answer

And, MVNOs won't help By Ahmad Hathout GATINEAU – The CRTC’s last mandate for the wireless industry – low-cost data-only plans which originally stood in lieu of a regulatory regime for mobile virtual network operators – have not been popular with customers, Rogers executives told the CRTC today. “A substantially bigger package of data without voice and text is not as appealing” as less data with talk and text, David Watt, Rogers’ senior vice-president of regulatory affairs, said Wednesday in front of CRTC commissioners reviewing the wireless industry. “I think we had thought low-cost data-only appeal to people who use...