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Originally Posted by Tesladom
Everybody like to complain about Cell Phone prices in Canada, yet they don't really understand it and the challenges and costs to deploy such service in a vast area as Canada. Its easy and cheap to deploy cell coverage in Singapore with the huge population densities, but here we need towers in vast fields to provide coverage for 2 people and a bunch of cattle and deer, so much more expensive to deploy and maintain.
Overall, I am satisfied with my cell service and cost, I just upgraded wife's phone to iPhone XR yesterday for $100 and she pays $50/month for unlimited talk/text and 5GB. Once I factor the 24 months contract for the smartphone subsidy (around $25/month on the tab), that's $25/month for the service... pretty cheap, Canada wide on Fido (Rogers)
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I also got an effective service cost of $25 a month with Freedom Mobile, but it has 12GB of data instead. Freedom is awesome.
I would highly recommend Freedom. Their new plans no longer charge roaming fees for talk and text outside of their home zone, and my plan also gives 1GB of free data I can use while on Canada roaming. The concern about leaving the city doesn't really apply anymore.