From I.never.nu
Thomas Purves is a Canadian consultant, entrepreneur and co-founder of firestroker. He has compared mobile data plans in US and Canada, and came up with a simple nice graphic that speaks from itself:
It shows how Canadian Telcos love us so much.
It’s funny how he brings later the example of Rwanda, he says that data plans are more accessible there than in Canada.
As a matter of fact, I have family in Rwanda who subscribed to unlimited Internet access for 30 euros per month, with their GPRS mobile phone. The system works well, they can skype and videoconference to Canada or Europe, while moving around Rwanda, and connecting their cell phone to their laptop. Can you imagine that in Montreal? Here, Bell charges you 40$ for 8MB per month.
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Comments
Montreal Tech Watch » Blog Archive » Telus in talks to merge with Bell June 21, 2007
[...] have liked to hear something like: “this would enable us to upgrade our network and offer less scandalous data plans for canadians” but Telus’s representative talked about increased business and revenues, [...]
CWTA: Canada enjoy the lowest prices in mobile services | Montreal Tech Watch July 13, 2007
[...] everyone who works in the hi-tech industry knows otherwise. Canada has the highest prices of data plans in the world. Pierre-Karl Péladeau, head of Québecor and Vidéotron, has said recently the big 3 telcos have [...]
ix July 14, 2007
Google launching Android challenge — surprisingly, Québecers not allowed! | Montreal Tech Watch November 12, 2007
[...] you, but it’s weird to see Quebec after Cuba, Iran, Syria … ! Is this because of the scandalous data rates? or maybe because they would have had to make a track in French? Well surely no, we are not there [...]
Montreal Tech Watch » There is something rotten in the Canadian telecom world May 25, 2008
[...] industry. We are currently in a state of oligopoly, with 3 big carriers running the market and charging the highest prices in the world to their customers. As a result, Canada is lagging behind every other developed country now [except [...]
Why I Hate my iPod Touch (and you shouldn’t buy an iPhone)-- Greg and Kat’s blog July 08, 2008
[...] the Rogers plans are worse than the plans from AT&T in the US. But if my memory and this chart are correct, they are an order of magnitude better than previous data plans. I’ll take that [...]
Geoff Crane February 02, 2011
@mypmexpert this is very obsolete now http://bit.ly/emkbE2 but it's representative of what we deal with