You want to know why we don’t have the iPhone yet in Canada?Data plans. Canadian ones are too expensive.
While you can run an iPhone in the US for less than $100 a month, it would cost you many times that in Canada. Our mobile carriers are too few, so there’s not a lot of inspiration for competition.
Need proof? Check out the Calgary kid who just got a bill for over $85 000.
The Motorola Krzr model Piotr Staniaszek bought from Bell Mobility allows him to use the phone to connect with his computer; downloading data to the computer resulted in the shocking charges.
“I didn’t know what to think. I thought there was probably a mistake,” the 22-year-old oil-field worker said of the extraordinary total.
“What happened is that the client used the cellphone as a modem linking it directly to the computer and downloading huge files, … high-res movies for instance.”
Staniaszek said he pays $10 a month for unlimited mobile browsing on his cellphone. “So I figured that was the same thing, but I guess not.” [source]
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Bell supposedly has a $7 flat-rate data plan (mentioned here and here ) but I have yet to see any indication of it on their site or in any of their print ads. If that’s the case, they could bring both Telus and Rogers to the point of submission and then (possibly) we wouldn’t be the laughing stock of the wireless world anymore.
Arrrrrgh! My blood boils when I think of the data rates in Canada. Seriously, I can’t even talk about it.
If you need me, I’ll be in a cold shower.