Think you pay too much for EVDO, try $4,202.95/month!

CraigCraig · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 141

Check out what the poor Canadians have to shell out for EVDO and data...

On the best plan that I see they'd be paying $4,202.95 for a month that had a 5 GB downloaded.

http://www.telusmobility.com/ab/business_solutions/connect_megabyte_rate_plan.shtml#you_pay

Am I correct or am I missing something?

I wonder what people pay in other areas of the world? I know we have some people from other countries here, what do you pay if you are not in the U.S.?

bill_best · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 15

In the past few weeks the big cell companies in Canada have started coming out with good data plans. I just signed up for an unlimited EVDO rev.a plan for $75/month on Bell Mobility. Of course once to add taxes and system access fees it comes to $100.

Some people are saying that there is a limit of about 5gb, but 5gb is good enough for me since I only use it on the road.

A few months ago I used my GSM phone without having a data package. I was charged $34 for 700kb.. yes KILOBYTES! Not even a meg!

freightliner · EVDO User Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 61

In July, when I had my verizon motorola q tethered to my laptop, I connected in Victoria for about 2-1/2 hours for a windows update. I d/l about 266 MB. When I got my bill the following month I discovered that I did not have a roaming data plan in Canada. My bill was $2788. I about had a stroke. After a lot of back and forth bs with customer service, I wrote a letter to the west-coast president of Verizon Wireless.

For what it is worth, I have to say that the top brass of Verizon Wireless are a bunch of decent folks, at least to me. I was treated with kid-glove service and got a giant credit on my account in effect waiving the roaming data charges. To boot, they threw in an extra bill's worth of credit for all my heartache.

I am a loyal Verizon customer.
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