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Rogers is expensive, but what you're paying that 2x premium for is the cell phone towers in the rural parts of the country. The one time I saw download speeds o
by cbhl 10y ago
Rogers is expensive, but what you're paying that 2x premium for is the cell phone towers in the rural parts of the country. The one time I saw download speeds on my cell phone approach the maximum theoretical was on a highway in the middle of nowhere in Ontario where I was probably the only person using that cell phone tower. If you live in an urban area and don't need the coverage, you can get a reasonable "unlimited" plan from WIND Mobile for $60 CAD/month.
- vkou 10y agoThis is great advice for a Canadian who needs cellphone coverage. This is not great advice for an American who is visiting. (The best advice for that situation is ordering a pre-paid SIM card. Or not using your phone for navigation.)
- cbhl 10y agoIf you're visting from the US: T-Mobile ONE gives you unlimited* 4G LTE data in Canada and Mexico, and throttles you to 128kbps in ~140 other countries (enough to get basic maps). Their previous plan, Simple Choice, would throttle you to 2G speeds when you were in Canada, but it was still enough to use Maps. If you're a long-term visitor, then, yes, you should just get a local prepaid SIM from Rogers. Disclaimer: I'm a T-mobile customer.
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- justin66 10y agoOr using the free Nokia navigation app, which works fine.
- maxerickson 10y agoHERE got bought by a group of automakers.
- jes5199 10y agoverizon's new plans give you your data in canada for no additional charge.
- ohstopitu 10y agoI'm on Wind mobile for my primary phone and pay around CAD 35/m (40 if you factor in taxes) for unlimited data (3GB full speed, throttled for more - but have yet to throttle me even though I always go above my data limit). It's great if you travel in any area with coverage, anything outside and you'll have trouble - I recently decided to drive to Scugog (from Oshawa) - I didn't have data from almost the entire ride. I was lucky as I had HERE maps (with downloaded offline maps).