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Up here in Canada it's like Mad Max except instead of gas it's mobile data. Like $25/month for a gig. I know folks who have tried to do some crazy schemes to get US plans with T-Mobile because it's actually cheaper to roam non-stop with a US phone up here than to have a Canadian cell phone plan. Plus like it's usually $10 more to not incur long distance charges outside your home area. Basically pls annex us already and get us cheap phone stuff.
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Professor Shark posted:You know how China can't reign in their banks or whatever? Canada is like that, only with our Phone/Internet Providers They openly divide up the country into zones so that there's effectively only one cable and one DSL provider per area. But it's not a monopoly you see, because there's technically two *internet* providers  .They were forced to allow third party ISP resellers to use their lines they build with massive government subsidies, but then just subtly gently caress them over in anti-competitive ways. Like, all the installation and service techs have to be from the megacorp that owns cable or DSL or whatever in your area, and if you're on a third party, they'll randomly not show up, cancel appointments, and just gently caress around because how dare you not want to pay $70/month for a 25MB connection with an 100GB cap. Or that time they started buying up the streaming rights to a lot of poo poo people used to sneak on to US Netflix to get (politely divided between each company naturally), so they could launch their own streaming services. Then made it inaccessible unless you bought a full cable or satellite package, AND paid another $5/month. But we can't have more competition because "FOREIGNERS WILL BE STEALING GOOD CANADIAN JOBS" 
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