Hi, For the canadians on the list who haven't heard about this, it's time to thank our CRTC for the latest ruling about unlocking fees. First of all the article I just read on CBC News mentioned that the major carriers collected over 37 Million in unlocking fees last year. That sounds like a lot of money, but for the likes of Bell, Rogers and Telus this really is not a lot especially if you more or less divide it evenly among them, a little over 12 Million each. Anyhow, the CRTC has ruled that as of December 1 carriers cannot charge a fee for unlocking a phone and it actually goes further in that all new phones sold after that date have to be unlocked. If of course you buy a phone on contract this does not mean you can get out of said contract early without penelty, but I wondered all along why carriers locked phones since with or without a locked phone a contract is a contract. Anyhow, it's a small victory and step in the right direction. We still have some of the highest costs for cellular plans and data here in Canada although our networks also rate among the best in the world. A lot of people complain that nobody offers an unlimited plan, but I think it is only a matter of time until that happens either because one carrier starts it which of course means the others have to follow or maybe because the CRTC rules that carriers have to offer unlimited plans. In that case they could of course make them so expensive that nobody wants them, but I am a firm believer that 5, 6 or 8 years from now we all look back and wonder how there ever was such as thing as a plan that was limited to 2 Gb or that 3G really existed. One thing we must also keep in mind is that we expect our carriers to provide nationwide coverage and that in a country which is larger than the US including Alaska and which has a total population that is less than that of California.
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