Hi Grant, One aspect does probably contribute to the cost of Canadian networks and that is the huge size of the country compared to the population. However, in some ways that also has to be viewed against the fact that 90% of the population lives on 10 % of the area. Maybe those are not totally exact figures, but it's something like that.
There is no doubt that in many European countries the networks are faster and better or as fast and as good, but it's just a lot cheaper. The nice thing is that you can buy prepaid plans for data as well as voice or text and as long as you want to pay the price for an iPhone you can probably get away with a $20 or $30 a month cost for it. Another thing is that, for example, in countries in Asia like the Philippines you buy your SIM card for the equivalent of just under a Dollar. This gives you a phone number and people can call you on that even if you don't have any money on the card. Many people there load up their SIM with text messages only because it's way cheaper and even businesses often send out texts because that is what people do. The SIM cards also don't expire or at least not for quite a long time. I boght a T-Mobile SIM card when I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago and I put $11 on it. I then used their $2 a day plan which gives me unlimited US calling, texting and unlimited data although for some reason it was mostl 3G, but sometimes it went down to Edge. The problem is that if I went back to the States in a year that SIM would be no good anymore, the number will become inactive if I don't buy more money within 90 days and I think the minimum I can buy is $10 so I don't think I'll keep it up just so I can use it again when I go back even though it would be nice to just have a SIM card I could stick in there when I need it. Hopefully things will change here in North America as well in the next few years so it's a bit easier to use all that fantastic technology. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
