[bryanlarsen]

Mobilicity and/or Wind Mobile not available in your city? $45 a month for "unlimited" data, NA voice and global text.

Of course in a few years the big three will purchase them ala Fido and PCS and it will back to the status quo, but in the meantime I am enjoying sane cell phone rates.

[cdelahousse]

Just remember that Wind and Moblicity are on a different network than Rogers, Telus, Fido and Bell.

My experience with Wind is that the reception is my city (Ottawa) is terrible at best. I'm considering switching to Moblicity.

[dholowiski]

I haven't checked mobilcity, but Wind Mobile is only available in a few cities (and not very far outside of the cities) over here in western canada.

[jarek]

Mobilicity's network is even smaller geographically, but both are excellent options for those covered.

[dholowiski]

I think this actually has something to do with why we pay so much for this kind of service in Canada. Our population is so thinly spread (other than a few major cities, who do have these cheap alternatives) that I bet if they even tried to cover second tier cities, they'd lose money. European countries have the advantage of being really small.

[jarek]

There's plenty of small remote towns in Sweden

[dholowiski]

According to Wikipedia,Sweden has 20.6 people per square kilometer,compared to 3.4 in Canada. Also,Canada is slightly larger. Much easier to cover all (or most) of Sweden than Canada

[jarek]

Here's another stat to look at. Southern Ontario, roughly up to Algonquin Park, has around 12 million people on about 140,000 km^2. Sweden has around 9.5 million people on about 450,000 km^2. Going purely by area or density criteria, southern Ontario should have telecom service miles ahead of Sweden, even in towns that are tiny and remote by southern Ontario standards.

[jarek]

Sure, but you don't live in the middle of the Northwest Territories, and neither do the vast majority of Canadians complaining about telecom prices. The population density figure is a bit of a red herring.