You guys are getting robbed.
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
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Are they? I pay $25/month for unlimited data here in the US with Visible.
I think it's available in Canada with their premium version for $35/month.
checks article
Yeah, they're getting scammed. Hard.
Data caps are the biggest joke in the first world. Can't believe so many people have them.
There are options in Canada for cheaper phone plans. When I moved to Lum Mobile there was a promo that gave me 25gb of data for free, and data on Lum never expires. Since I am basically always somewhere with wifi, I bought a data I can pay $180 CAD to Lum for my phone for the year. I used a little over 1gb last year.
That's $10.89 American a month.
I'll switch to Lum as soon as I learn that they support WiFi calling on Android. We have no cell service, but do have Starlink internet.
Depends on the deals you can get. I'm currently getting 120gb/month for $55. Sure not great when compared to a lot of other companies but definitely a lot better than many of the advertised prices.
Really? What’s a better plan in Canada for a better price?
I think you did not get the meaning the phrase “you guys are being robbed”.
Robbed implies illegal, which it’s unfortunately not. It’s a matter of government not allowing healthy competition because politicians have their campaigns legally funded by scumbags.
And yes it should be illegal but..
Spoiler, it's just Bell.
Spoiler, it's just Bell.
There's only 2 (ish) physical nationwide phone networks in the country. Anyone else is going ro be running on that same infrastructure.
Either they're running on Bell's infrastructure (which will include Telus in the west), or they're on Rogers infrastructure.
No low(er) cost brand or new company is going to be able to spend the hundreds of billions to build their own nationwide infrastructure.
Which is why we have 50 'different' providers who all offer the same service for the same price.
It's unlikely that we'll see another company willing (or able) to spend the money to build another physical network.
The networks that currently exist were built incrementally over 30+ years.
Anyone starting today would be at a massive coverage area disadvantage while they were building their system.
And until it covered most of the places where people wanted to go, they would have to compete against well funded incumbents using cut rates to attract customers. At the same time they would be spending hundreds of billions on their capitol build project.
It's a hard mountain to climb. Several have already tried and failed.
Notably, the plans priced $29 to $50 are pretty much the same as what’s offered by PC Mobile, which offers 5G speeds.
The photo shows only data, but the article mentions also about calls, texts etc. With that price I don't think it's worth.
It includes Canadian voice and text. The article links to the source: https://www.nonamemobile.ca/en/plans/