> The difference between metered plans and unlimited data is pretty small these days in my observation.
That’s if you have a competitive environment. In Canada, the cellular providers are the fixed-line internet providers and very much don’t want to tank one for the other.
(But maybe Freedom Mobile, without much of a physical wireline footprint, will pull a t-mobile and go all-in on a 5G wireless home internet plan… we can pray)
Oh, yeah, all of these considerations only apply to a somewhat functioning/competitive market, unfortunately.
I have my fingers crossed for you! I've had friends of mine live in Canada for a while – it sounds as bad as (or even worse than) what was going on in Germany in the 2000s, when mobile operators had spent ridiculous sums on 3G licenses and almost ruined themselves in the process financially and as a result just sat out on infrastructure investments for the next decade or so.
As far as I know, these are possible even without a SIM card in the US and most other countries.
> The first kb/s gets me a loooot of value and each additional is less useful than the last. Data is very much diminishing returns.
And it’s arguably priced accordingly: The difference between metered plans and unlimited data is pretty small these days in my observation.