Bell? Protecting their customers? What?
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2023
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And here I thought Canada was dead set on imitating the worst aspects the US has to offer.
Surprisingly it was conservatives who enacted the laws protecting people.
Considering how far the left-wing went off the deep end, I suppose it shouldn't surprise me.
I heard bell is bad, is that true? (I’m in the US)
In truth, all of the Canadian telecoms are awful, awful, completely vertically integrated companies. They're our ISPs, they're our cable television and broadband internet providers, they're our cellular phone networks, and they own our TV and radio stations. They have an obscene amount of influence over the media we're soaking in, and control over our means of communicating.
And Bell's probably the worst of them. But it's not like it's not a competitive field in that regard.
Yup, worth noting that the issue isn't just poor (unreliable and slow) service, but also the integration of data caps. Something that is rare in the US (and I'm assuming in europe?). Basically, on many plans ISPs will limit the amount of data users are allowed to send or receive in a given time (usually it's per billing cycle, so per month). TO be clear, this is for your home network, not just your cellular data.
Luckily data caps for internet is pretty rare. Data caps for mobile data, though, is ridiculous.
My business pays Rogers $100/month per phone on a BYOP plan for 100MB of data with $15/GB overages.
I just recently bought a personal plan. Decided to get the cheapest one I could, and went with Bells subsidiary Lucky Mobile, and it is still $40/month and I get 1GB of data. At least there's no overages, as the speed just drops to 128kbps. Still, at $40 it's basic. No VoLTE, no visual voicemail, no wifi calling, no hot spotting.. nothing.
We get ROBBED here.
I haven't been living in Canada for a while so things must have changed a bit since then. The strat is to get an american plan with roaming at that point...
I've heard a few people say that, but the issue I have heard is that you require a US address/ID and have to go in person to sign up.
The only two I am aware of that are actually good are Teksavvy and SaskTel. But, Teksavvy is just a reseller, and SaskTel is a crown corporation only available in Sask. Not sure about the smaller mobile providers anymore - there have been too many buyouts for me to keep track of.
TIL
Well Bell Canada was a division of the huge American monopoly of Bell Telephone.
I don't have first hand experience with Bell Canada, but with the American divisions of Bell becoming Verizon, AT&T, and CenturyLink, I don't have high expectations.