Originally Posted by
BigFlyer
You need a revolution up in Canada. The mobile phone rates are crazy high to begin with, and the roaming costs are even more insane. The US carriers have free Canadian roaming on most of their plans. Canada is the outlier on prices, e.g., look what you can get in the UK:
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/be...topnav~1~1~2~1
Yeah, no kidding.

Consumer protections and regulations often seem to be a two-steps-forward, one-step-back kind of thing here. I've been doing okay with some travel hacks, such as using free 90-day T-Mobile data plan trials for my U.S. travel. But it's criminal what these companies can charge here. It's especially insulting when you look at countries with similarly low population densities like Australia or Sweden.