[VBprogrammer]

> Oh and if you think the internet situation is bad up here in Canada, then wait 'till you hear about our mobile phone rates.

I wasted a good half a day going around different mobile phone shops in Vancouver because I couldn't understand why none of them had a $20 pay as you go simcard which would have me a dozen GB of data and some calls.

In the end one of the shop assistants who had been to Europe understood our confusion and explained that those just don't exist in Canada. He also showed us the coverage map and that the minute we left Vancouver cell service would be next to nothing anyway.

[frosted-flakes]

Well yeah, cell service is going to be bad in the mountains, of course. No one lives there and there are giant mountains in the way. But any populated area of the country has good service.