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by thisacctforreal 2648 days ago
AKA Canadian standards.

https://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/canadas-almost-th...

My grandfathered $140/month mobile plan has 14GB of data; 320MB is 70% of a day's bandwidth, or 2% of the month's.

If I wanted to add another GB I could accrue $100 in overages ($0.10/MB), or pay another $25/month. But Bell will charge for another month in advance if you change the current month's plan.

Strangely enough it was only $5/month to up it from 13GB to 14GB :<

All this despite being able to download at 7MB/s; I could blow my cap in half an hour, and another half hour would cost $1,400 if I didn't up the plan.

Edit: I use my cellphone's data heavily, but 20, 40, 50GB cable internet caps are common with a lot of people not understanding what that means for streaming video / downloading pictures.