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Nova Scotia resident here, prices are already incredibly high even with the limited options for third party providers. For proper fibre my only option is Bell with a base price of $80/mo (w/ discount, typical rate of 109) for 150 symmetrical. With many people here switching to remote work, Bell knows what’s coming and is eager to continue raising prices.

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You know, that ($80 Canadian for 150 sym) is not too far off international prices.

I pay £29pcm (regular, no discount/promotion) in the UK for exactly the same (and actual service exceeds the headline 150 comfortably) which is, at time of writing, CA$46.67.

Are you in a large city or rural area? Rural prices in Canada are extortionate, and the commenter your are replying to, their price is is likely in a City

Yes, that's in London. In actually rural UK you're very unlikely to have fibre.

(Even in smaller towns/villages the cost to hook up an unconnected house to the cabinet, to the owner if they want it ahead of when Openreach might eventually get there, is North of £10k. I imagine if you want to pay for that installation somewhere rural it's even considerably more, since the nearest fibre might be miles away. They might not even do it, I don't know.)

Symetric? Do you get 150 both ways?

Yes. Or as I said, service actually exceeds that whenever I've tested, typically ~160/190Mbps down/up respectively, but it's a 150 symmetric plan.

That's good ! Who are you with? I have 1GB / 100mb with BT but it costs me £80pcm

Hyperoptic, FTTB so only in cities and perhaps only London - I think might only be flat blocks too (copper to each individual flat) - but if you can get it it's great, I'd definitely recommend. Pretty sure you'd get your 1Gb symmetric for less.

I showed my Korean friends and they were laughing at how expensive and slow the internet is in Canada.

For what it’s worth, they’re also more than an order of magnitude more dense. They’re playing the ISP game on easy mode.

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