I can't imagine paying $10/GB for data, wow!
For reference, I'm paying about $23/month for unlimited everything in NL. I'm pretty sure that's not even the cheapest plan you could get, I just haven't switched providers in a couple of years.
For reference, I'm paying about $23/month for unlimited everything in NL. I'm pretty sure that's not even the cheapest plan you could get, I just haven't switched providers in a couple of years.
For example you might want to consider their current 10GB for $40 plan here: https://www.freedommobile.ca/en-CA/plans?planSku=Freedom%202... (note there are some conditions to get the full 10GB of data)
It always seemed like calling it "unlimited" was just boldly lying, especially when the limits are there in the fine print.
The policy makes sense to me.
It’s easier and cheaper to provide cellular service to dense populations like NL.
The population density of NL is over 100X more dense than Canada. Of course, once you exclude the largely uninhabited areas of Canada the difference isn’t as large, but it’s still significantly more costly to build cellular infrastructure across large and spread out places like Canada and the United States than smaller, densely populated places like NL.
Finland population density: 18 per km^2
Canada population density: 4 per km^2
Population density doesn't explain everything, but it's a big factor.
That would be harder, of course.
Providers in Canada are a cartel in every definition of the word. The three major cartel members can "compete" in a province and amazingly all have identically bad pricing and policies. Then they go to Quebec or Manitoba (or maybe it was Saskatchewan?) where there is a location-specific alternative and their pricing is significantly better.
Having said all of that, I should be fair and note that some of the providers have "infinity plans" now. So if you got a Rogers 5GB plan and have used 5GB by day one, you still have free data for the rest of the month at a speed of 512Kbps (again, amazingly all three of the major providers have identical policies). Which is still an entirely workable speed for a lot of things.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Collines-de-l%27Outaouai...
The county I live in, is 2200 sq km, with a population density of 24/sq km. This is in Quebec, at 1.5M sq km in size, and beside one of the largest metro areas in Canada, the National Capital Region of Ottawa and Gatineau, 5th or 6th largest.
NL is 423/sq km density, 20x. It is only 40000sq km, or about 18x larger than my county.
Quebec is 35x larger, Canada 230? 240 times larger.
Further point, my municipality is in a populous province, and effectively a suburb of the nations capital.
Lots of places have far lower population densities, and we have parks, and counties larger than the Netherlands.
Lots more area to cover, for sure.
It's not something I would recommend as a substitute for wifi, but definitely worth it if you travel to multiple countries, and don't want to deal with getting and/or swapping sims at every destination.
Bill pay plans end up way worse on the low end though. The cheapest bill pay plan from my provider is €40/month, only includes phones that are €30 outright, and comes with 20gb of data. A year or two ago it would have been €30/month with only 1gb of data included.
It still ends up cheaper than our previous unlimited plan because we just make sure to use Wifi whenever possible.
Fi has an unlimited plan, but it costs more and it doesn't include roaming (outside of country) data.
We've got a huge credit because we got deals on a couple expensive phones, but after that credit runs out (in like a year, I think) we'll probably re-evaluate.
Also, I assume mobile networks are doing heavy QoS when towers get congested, where people who result in more profit for the mobile network get higher priority/more bandwidth.
Mint Mobile in US is $15/4GB/mo , which is plenty for everything except extensive video chat/streaming movies.
Your deal seems far better than all the plans mentioned here:
I will be honest, it usually isn't too bad when I am in my work-home routine due to having Wi-Fi in most of places, but becomes quite obvious (and painful) once I travel.