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I remember the spectacular pricing of around $10-15/MB in Canadian mobile networks back around 2004-2005, just when 3G was getting started. (So it was really 2G pricing.)

As a reference, typical European pricing was around $2/MB at the time, IIRC. The US of course had their typical "plans" that made price comparisons hard.

It's fascinating that the network owners in Canada have managed to keep prices so high, for so long.

We were launching a mobile J2ME-based service back then; I remember thinking we'd get back to Canada when they'd got their data pricing in order but that never happened...



Canadians' situation is definitely an after-thought for app developers.

The NPR app keeps pre-buffering several hundred mb of audio when I start it and chews through my data. Ugh.

And then there's the time my bank forced me to update their app and I wasn't on wifi...


$10/mb vs $2/mb...

Things have diverted more. French plans now have 25x the data for lower prices than Canadian plans...




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