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The Netscape loading logo was pretty cool, and of course it took a while to load every page!

A bit later than what I'd call the early internet, I'd say my favourite memory was winning a Super Soaker CPS 2500 when I was 13.

No random drops to lower quality either!

A few hundred a year won't make much difference, unless of course their main income already puts them into the top tax bracket, even then it's gonna be less than $200

That's great and all, but we live in a real world where there's multiple possible outcomes, like actual anti monopoly/ oligopoly / pro competitive practices, regulations. A CRTC with teeth etc

With 250MB a month you're not going to care if it's fast. Chances are they lease bandwidth and connections from the big companies, so you'll get pretty much the same speeds (which will be of concern for their $30 a month packages)

Blazing fast. T-mobile for example can provide speeds up to 220Mbps. I think I've gotten like 75Mbps in Toronto, I'm lucky to get 20Mbps in my small city (band issue, not congestion)

I almost worked as a CSR for T-Mobile in the early 2010s and I remember them having $20 a month unlimited calling and texting when we were being gouged for that, before data was a big thing

MagicApp, calls and texting in Canada and the US but you need to pick an American interchange and number, which hopefully shouldn't be an issue. When I went to add it to my bank account the website stated Canadian numbers only, but it accepted the one I have with a New York area code.

Hmm that's not bad, I was looking at their offerings not too long ago, I'd want the $30 plan you mention.

I've got a VoIP number with unlimited texting and verification support (some VoIP numbers charge a lot extra for that) for under $6 a month, but for that I'd need an at home internet connection (or mobile which negates the need for a VoIP number). I'm going to try out just using public wifi for a bit, once my last month of Freedom runs out.

When I looked at Public Mobile they were about on par with Freedom

Last I checked I think the competition is starting to offer this as well.

Americans have had unlimited without caps since 2017. It's false advertising for Freedom to call what they offer unlimited. Everything slows to a crawl (about 30KB/s for me, which is abysmal considering I found a post from 2019 saying they used to cap at 250KB/s) and most modern apps and websites can't handle this and say there's no connection or just time out.

I can download torrents like the new episodes of It's Always Sunny at a trickle without issue though 🤔 which doesn't take long at all with x265 encoding

...what do you get for $9 a month? I'm guessing you're not in Ontario? Since I was a loyal long term customer I was lucky to get my bill down to 40 minus 10 bucks promotionally (which doesn't show up in my account or say how long it'll last) from 60 a month for 15GB of data. And now of course you can get more data for the same price or some shit as a new customer

Opening up to international competition is one option... Honestly we could have Canadian companies be competitive but that would involve work and effort from all levels: government, consumer, and business.

These dare the days of everyone wanting everything for free, but I'm not talking lazy hobos - I'm talking the entitled rich who think they can just keep sucking the rest of us dry indefinitely

It's just so nonsensical and corrupt. I'm desperate for uncapped mobile data, you CAN get uncapped LTE connections but only in rural areas and I'm guessing you can't pop the SIM card out of the modem and stick it in your phone

All this wonderful technology, the foundations for a free information utopia, and we're powerless to do anything against the profiteers.

Unless if you know, everybody is willing to boycott together and go offline for days, weeks, months, or God forbid years. Never gonna happen, Canadians are schmucks