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Pricing in Canada for mobile plans are downright awful! I can buy a plan from Australia and use it there in Canada for cheaper with international roaming. I re
by obtino 7y ago
Pricing in Canada for mobile plans are downright awful! I can buy a plan from Australia and use it there in Canada for cheaper with international roaming.
I remember only 10 years ago that Canadian telcos still considered moving between state lines as ‘roaming’. I don’t know if it’s still the case.
- angott 7y agoSome Canadian carriers are indeed still selling plans with local calls only. In 2019. It's depressing.
- Scoundreller 7y agoIt also means people keep changing their phone number when they move. Whereas US family all still have the same phone number they got in HS/college.
- dev_dull 7y agoI am member when I moved to states and had to change my email, it was really annoying but long-distance email costs were really adding up.
- Scoundreller 7y agoIt's even funnier when you find out that cell phone infrastructure is incredibly centralized. Most calls in Ontario go through Toronto. The only mobile phone innovation in Canada is new ways to charge customers in ways that nobody else does. E.g. charging 15 cents for an incoming text message unless you have a text messaging plan.
- aledalgrande 7y agoYeah! Freedom. Paying CAD45 for 4GB, when in UK I had unlimited data for GBP10. Edit: did the low UK price offend someone?
- polymatter 7y agowhere did you get unlimited data for GBP10?
- aledalgrande 7y agoGiffGaff, subsidiary of O2
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