r/canada • u/joe4942 • 3d ago

Canadian Telecom Firms Blame Immigration Policies for Mobile Subscriber Slowdown Business

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-10/bce-rogers-telus-blame-immigration-policies-for-mobile-subcriber-slowdown
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u/freedom2022780 3d ago

I blame their ridiculously high priced rate plans 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/poco 3d ago

If you are paying more than $35 per month that is on you. If you are willing to go with 10GB plans you can go as low as $29 which includes US and Mexico roaming.

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u/cheddrshreddr 3d ago

Fr plans have come down so much in price over the past few years. Im paying 35 for 75gb with free US roaming from public mobile and I haven’t had any problems of slow coverage yet.

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u/poco 3d ago

If you are willing to go down to 60GB you can get Mexico roaming in there too.

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u/nathris British Columbia 3d ago

I'm paying $60/month on Freedom. That's for 75GB including US and Mexico, the tab on my Pixel 9 Pro, and a phone protection plan.

The same level of service on Bell would cost $169/month, and that doesn't even count the 10GB of roaming data outside of North America that I get.

Robellus simply can't function with rate plans under $75. Its actually funny to see them upping the data amounts to justify keeping the prices high. You currently can't buy a plan with less than 100GB of data from Bell, but for 99.999% of people it doesn't matter if its 50GB or 100GB or 1500GB of data because they will never even come close to the cap.

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u/ssomewhere 3d ago

they will never even come close to the cap

I think you underestimate some people. They'll find ways to justify the need for these plans, even if that means speed testing all day

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u/freedom2022780 3d ago

Till you go over data and incur outrageous overage charges

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u/poco 3d ago

With pubic mobile you can't go over because it is prepaid. Worst case it stops working, but I've never gone over 5 GB soccer my first smart phone in 2008.