Comments on: Talking Turkey on Canadian Data

By: Rogers and the N95 — Alec Saunders SquawkBox

Rogers and the N95 — Alec Saunders SquawkBox — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:34:11 +0000

[...] impressed. I’ve thrown a lot of rocks at Canadian carriers, including Rogers, over the last year for their regressive data plan pricing. Rogers has just [...]

By: Paul R. Pival

Paul R. Pival — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:03:20 +0000

Boy howdy! The CBC had a good series of posts examining this phenomenon back in Nov…

By: Wirelessnorth.ca » Blog Archive » Solving Canada’s mobile data problem

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:29:27 +0000

[...] Saunders had a great post earlier this week on the subject Talking Turkey on Canadian Data. “The answer, of course, is price elasticity. Because the cost of mobile data is so high, [...]

By: Why Mobile Internet In Canada Is Terrible | Adam McNamara

Why Mobile Internet In Canada Is Terrible | Adam McNamara — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:05:13 +0000

[...] a minute to read this great article on why mobile internet in Canada isn’t being adopted as widely as in other [...]

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:55:51 +0000

Lousy experience Luke. Wow.

By: Luke Closs

Luke Closs — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:51:49 +0000

Thanks for the post. After Bell released their “Unlimited data plan”, they’re cancelling (AFAICT) all of the plans and kicking people off.

I’m one of the people building the services that these networks will use, and while my american friends have $20/unlimited plans, Bell tries to sell me their best plan in my area (after they canceled the unlimited plan) - $100/month for 250Mb. That’s about 8MB per day! WTF are they thinking?

I’ve blogged my bell unlimited fiasco experience here: https://www.socialtext.net/lukec/index.cgi?Bell%20Unlimited

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:44:10 +0000

Great post, Alec. I’ve been singing the same tune for a while now but it’s great to have some real numbers behind it.

I’ve posted more reaction to this post at mikel.org.

By: Saunders on Canadian data rates | this is mikel.org

Saunders on Canadian data rates | this is mikel.org — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:41:31 +0000

[...] written a long post comparing the rates for data plans and carrier revenues internationally called Talking Turkey on Canadian Data. Alec brings out the numbers behind the point that I’ve been making based on instinct for [...]