Cheaper phone plans for Canadians could be closer than we think.
On Monday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that it’s reached a significant milestone in increasing phone services competition in Canada.
- SturgiesYrFase ( @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year ago
When I moved from Vancouver to London, loads of things shocked me, one of the ones that hit me hardest was the cost of phone plans here compared to back home. I can’t remember who I was with, mobilicity or wind or some such, I was paying basically $50/month, I got 15gb of data and unlimited calling. Except it was 3G, borderline 2G data. When I moved to the UK I got unlimited data (actually 4G) and unlimited calls/texts for £10/month
- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) 14•1 year ago
Data is still horrible in Canada. Noone is texting hundreds SMS per month nor using 1000 minutes per month, so those are free unlimited but damn data… it’s still expensive.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
Koodo has been decent, I’m at 75Gig for $55, with free unlimited calling to 28 countries . (pick a perk) Also, not sure not sure what you mean about no one is texting nor using 1000 minutes per month?
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
I text 0 characters a month and use 0 minutes.
It’s all Skype, fbmsgr, hangouts.
Because it’s 2023.
- k_rol ( @k_rol@lemmy.ca ) 12•1 year ago
I’ve never thought of using Skype as being modern. Maybe Discord, Matrix, Teams, Whatsapp…
- Auli ( @Auli@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year ago
Hangouts in 2023?
- MyFeetOwnMySoul ( @MyFeetOwnMySoul@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year ago
Urbanite spotted.
Sometimes I wonder if people in cities have no idea the digital divide exists.
Texting and calling via a cellphone network is a far more reliable where I live, and even at that, there are known dead zones along my road (a main road) where calls drop, and texts either don’t send or a painfully slow.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
Well not sure why you have downvotes, but for me its also used as work phone so texts via sms and regular phone calls are a thing because you can’t control customer app choices or device choices, so a standard sms or phonecall is required.
- NotLewsTherin ( @jimmyjamxoxo@lemmy.ca ) 12•1 year ago
Canada is WAY WAY BEHIND in the MVNO game. It is RIDICULOUS that it’s taken THIS LONG for CRTC to implement what is already common everywhere else in the world. Honestly, CRTC is there to protect the telecom monopolies, NOT the Canadian consumers.
- eezeebee ( @eezeebee@lemmy.ca ) English10•1 year ago
Inb4 they put $5 back in one pocket and take $10 from your other pocket
- NathanielThomas ( @NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca ) 9•1 year ago
What a joke, eh. Spinning it as helping Canadians. Where was the Canadian Competition Bureau when they allowed 3 companies to own the entire cellular network in a country second only in size to Russia?
CRTC is helping nothing.
- Auli ( @Auli@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
What does size have to do with anything? We are a tiny country population wise.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Global warming-related migrants: “Hold our beer.”
- peterbata ( @peterbata@lemmy.ca ) 8•1 year ago
Great news. The same should apply to internet rates as well. There is a problem when my ISP charges me almost as most as what I pay to insure my single family dwelling
- Cobrachickenwing ( @Cobrachickenwing@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
The fact that there is no company advertising starting a new cell phone company in Canada after this announcement is all you need to know how significant this announcement is. It’s why the original founder of Wind/Freedom mobile pulled out of Canada and no American company bothered to look north since AT&T left.
- ikidd ( @ikidd@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
Does anyone know of a Canadian provider that offers an IOT data plan for multiple SIMs that share the data pool? I have a pile of telemetry devices I’d like to move to LTE with minor data needs per month each, but I need a low monthly cost per device with a shared data pool of like 5GB.
- 1993_toyota_camry ( @1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Have you looked at https://www.hologram.io?
I haven’t used them yet, but a business associate does for his IOT deployments, and he’s pretty happy with them.
- ikidd ( @ikidd@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
I had ordered a SIM from them, then threw it in the drawer and promptly forgot about it. I’m going to see if I can find that again, thanks for the reminder.