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Canada’s Mobile Data Access Sucks

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about how much the current pricing structure for Canadian mobile data access blows. I managed to spend CAN $112 for 3 MB of data. Both James and Boris link to Thomas Purves’s chart that shows how absurd current Canadian mobile data pricing is (click for larger image):

I was mostly writing this post to encourage you, my dear readers, to Digg this story. However, in the time I took to write this entry, it made it to the front page of Digg. So, mission accomplished without our help.

UPDATE: You know one thing that bugs me about the Digg community? Their apparent lack of a sense of humour. They seem to take vicious delight in digging down (or burying, if you like) any humorous comments. It seems to reinforce the stereotype of geeks as overly-serious poindexters.

At least Slashdot has the ‘funny’ category for such comments. Comparatively, Digg has simplified the user moderation on comments, but they’ve lost some important diversity along the way.

6 Responses to “Canada’s Mobile Data Access Sucks”

  1. Rob Cottingham Says:

    I’ve followed up to your comment: you would have added a smiley, but it would have cost an additional 40 bucks on your mobile plan.

  2. Brian El Says:

    Darren: How is this site going for you? I know it’s satirical but do you plan on developing it further?

    http://www.getafirstlife.com

  3. darren Says:

    Brian: It’s strictly a fire-and-forget project. It still gets a fair schwack of traffic, but I don’t plan on doing anything with it.

  4. Jeremy Latham’s Blog » Blog Archive » Canadian Cell Phone Rates Says:

    […] I was reading a couple of my regular morning blogs today (darrenbarefoot.com / audihertz.net) and came across a cell phone rate comparison of Canada vs. a few other countries. […]

  5. Richard Akerman Says:

    It’s actually worse than that. With the basic Rogers data plan, 1000MB will cost you $30,000 (yes, thirty thousand dollars).

    My bill, without any plan at all, was $227 for 4MB.

    http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2007/02/internet_on_a_p.html

    http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2007/04/more_on_canadia.html

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