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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 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.

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Some Canadian carriers are indeed still selling plans with local calls only. In 2019. It's depressing.

It 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.

I 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.

It'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.

Yeah! Freedom. Paying CAD45 for 4GB, when in UK I had unlimited data for GBP10.

Edit: did the low UK price offend someone?

where did you get unlimited data for GBP10?

GiffGaff, subsidiary of O2

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