Italy Has Worse iPhone Rates Than Canada!

Well I’ll be damned. It looks like our Italian friends will be paying the highest 3G iPhone rates in the World. The honor of this title, thought to have been rightfully awarded to Canada (who has the world’s greediest telecom company, Rogers Communication), has been given to Italy.  

According to CBCNews.ca’s iPhone iNdex, which compares basic service plans from the 27 carriers in 21 countries that have announced pricing for the device’s launch on Friday, Canadians who buy the device before Aug. 31 will be faced with a total minimum cost of $2,176 US over the course of the three-year deal they must sign with Rogers. That is second only to the $2,554 US customers of Vodafone will pay in Italy with their two-year service agreement.    

The lowest of them all on the graph, cost-wise, is Switzerland! They will be paying $34/month for 2 years. Sounds like a sweet deal to me :) Too bad I live in  the 2nd most expensive place on Earth to pay for an iPhone (yeah, you guessed it, the Great White North). CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) came out with a nice little interactive web page where you can compare the iPhone rates of Canada to Hong Kong, Mexico to the U.K. or just about any place where the iPhone is available. It is available here.

CBCNews.ca story link is here.