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If Ewan lived in Canada, he’d have blown…

Started by Ewan · 1 year ago

$13,465.60

yes that’s right dear reader. Ewan’s pockets would be hurting a lot more than they currently do if he was in our fair country.

Here’s how we figured it out.

Ewan would have the exact same plan I do. On Fido, the now defunct $18 value pack that gives me 12MB of data a month.

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10 comments

  • Ricky Chotai

    1 year ago

    To think we complain here in the UK about data charges! :S
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  • Ana

    1 year ago

    If Ewan was in Poland...
    on any business tariff he's chose with Era (my current provider), I'm guessing he'd choose the biggest data plan:
    39,00 zł for 500 MB data usage, which I'm covers his usage.

    39 zl at current exchange rate = 9.1472 GBP

    any usage above that is 0,001 zł for 1K. I leave the maths on this one to you

    There go your jaws ladies and gents
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  • Ewan

    1 year ago

    geez!
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  • Ana

    1 year ago

    i wonder how is it that in other country it only costs about a tenner... i use net of my phone all the time back home, but i wouldn't dare in uk, not with this prices.
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  • Ricky

    1 year ago

    Heh, AT&T's next-up-to-unlimited package is 5MB, and I blew through 1.5GB last month.
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  • Ewan

    1 year ago

    And what was the cost?
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  • DanLane

    1 year ago

    I'd actually like to move to Canada one day, so y'know, if Mr Rogers could sort his data plans out, that'd be great :)
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  • Krystal

    1 year ago

    He's probably too busy running his baseball team and television stations, but I'll see if I can give him a call for you Dan.

    Don't let it stop you from moving here one day, we have Tim Hortons.
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  • Matt

    1 year ago

    Fido do have some data options, specifically billed as "Internet Options for Wireless Internet Access" http://www.fido.ca/portal/en/domore/options.shtml

    If Ewan was on fido, he could sping for the $100/mo option that gives 200M/mo, with overage at $5/MB, so his 275M would have cost the $100 for the month, plus $375 overage - $475 still isn't pretty, but it's a hell of a lot better than $13.5k. Of course, then there are the months you only use 50M and end up paying the $100 anyway.
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  • Ewan

    1 year ago

    Nice!
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