Hi Sieghard, Oh for sure, I agree with you. I do definitely feel a bit sad when I look at international prepaid plans and see that they are better than our postpaid plans. :P On the T-Mobile plan you mentioned you could have unlimited talk, text and data for $62/month (I believe the data is throttled after 200 MB per day? But still well over 6 GB of unthrottled data per month). That beats $56 on contract in Canada for just 2 GB of data for the whole month. If you take a full subsidy on an iPhone from Fido, then you're looking at $67 for the same plan, which is even less economical.
Cheers. Grant On 12/13/12, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
