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I've never been to Canada but I've heard tons of stories about low data caps and high overage fees. I'm on a cheap cell phone plan that toutes that it includes

• Scoundreller 6y ago
  In Canada, there are some 'value providers' (that are just subsidiaries of the incumbents, no real MVNO competition here) that sell 3G plans. But it would be stupid to restrict them to 3G spectrum because that's a waste of spectrum, so they get rate-limited to "3G-speeds", which they consider 6mbps. Funny thing is, I'm on the same network, and if I disable 4G and go on 3G, I get ~16mbps on my speed tests... Like, 5G and 4G save telecoms money by being more efficient with their spectrum, requiring less tower/leases and less power. Their equipment needs regular refreshment anyway, upgraded or not. But in Canada they still sell it as a more premium service.