Its such an eye opener when I moved from Iceland to Canada in 2001. Back then we already had 3 cell phone companies (country of 300,000) and you never had to sign contracts. You only bought a sim card, and paid for a monthly package with whomever you chose.
This in a socialist country.
You had to buy your cell phone upfront, and eventually they offered contracts with a free phone, BUT you could always drop the company and pay a small fine. But you owned that phone number, you took it along with your business to whatever provider you wanted to sign up with.
Canada's cell phone companies are an utter joke, the rates, the slowness of the upgrades to our systems, etc.. Richard Branson of Virgin even came to Canada to protest this sillyness.
The biggest choke hold a cell phone company has is owning your phone number, and that is simply not fair practice.
Next time the change your provider day comes up that Branson managed to get, I'm gonna finally leave Telus who'm I loathe.
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