iPhone Issues in Western Canada

Friday July 11, 2008 

No matter what happens with the release of the 3G iPhone today, some people are going to be happy, and some are going to be pissed off.  It’s just the way it works.  People at the Rogers flagship store in Toronto were a little less than thrilled to find out that the store only had 80 phones in stock.  When the line is a couple of hundred people long, though, it’s not hard to figure out why.

To be honest, though, this isn’t really a new occurrence.  I’d be willing to bet that by Monday or Tuesday you’ll be able to walk into any Rogers retailer in the country and pick up a 3G iPhone.

Regardless, though, it doesn’t sound like Rogers had a good morning.  Their activation system went down (at least in the west) and customers were forced to stand around with their new purchase waiting for the system to come back up so that they could activate their new phone.  Would have been a rough morning for the sales reps, without a doubt.  I wonder if the problems seemed worse out west because those in the east were in the process of getting their phones activated as well and the whole country just overwhelmed the system.

If you’re looking for more updates on the whole thing, have a look at Buzz Bishop’s Cyberbuzz post, which seems to get updated when he gets new information on the whole thing.

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