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Buried in an obscure tab of Chatr's list of mobile-phone plans is a *25* dollar/month plan with unlimited data. I'd actually seen it a while back and thought it was gone now, but no, it's still there.
It's not amazing by *international* standards, sure. It's strictly inferior to the Twigby plan I recommended towingedcatgirl: you pay just about exactly the same (adjusted for exchange rate) while getting less stuff. But it's not as *much* inferior as one might have assumed given the general state of Canadian telecoms: you just get less data before the throttling kicks in (1 GB instead of 3 GB) and pay through the nose for outgoing calls. (Bear in mind that I currently cannot make *any* outgoing non-Internet-based calls on my smartphone. A Chatr-planholder me could use all the same mitigation methods I use now but with the added option of sucking it up and paying 40 cents/minute in a pinch. And incoming calls are free, so if you can convince the person to call you back...)
I don't know if I'm going to go with it. $25 is still significantly more than $12, especially for a recurring monthly cost. I have very little idea how valuable unlimited mobile data is to me in the medium term: that requires knowing stuff about what my lifestyle will be like in six months that I have no way of knowing from this vantage point. (Will I be working from home? Walking to work? Riding the bus for 5 minutes? For 15? For 90? All of these are serious possibilities!)
(of course, it *would* let me join Signal without fear, in any case)
I'll have to bear it in mind. I can always start with the $12 plan and switch if I find the $25 plan would be worth it.
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(edit: part 3)
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Buried in an obscure tab of Chatr's list of mobile-phone plans is a *25* dollar/month plan with unlimited data. I'd actually seen it a while back and thought it was gone now, but no, it's still there.
It's not amazing by *international* standards, sure. It's strictly inferior to the Twigby plan I recommended to
wingedcatgirl: you pay just about exactly the same (adjusted for exchange rate) while getting less stuff. But it's not as *much* inferior as one might have assumed given the general state of Canadian telecoms: you just get less data before the throttling kicks in (1 GB instead of 3 GB) and pay through the nose for outgoing calls. (Bear in mind that I currently cannot make *any* outgoing non-Internet-based calls on my smartphone. A Chatr-planholder me could use all the same mitigation methods I use now but with the added option of sucking it up and paying 40 cents/minute in a pinch. And incoming calls are free, so if you can convince the person to call you back...)I don't know if I'm going to go with it. $25 is still significantly more than $12, especially for a recurring monthly cost. I have very little idea how valuable unlimited mobile data is to me in the medium term: that requires knowing stuff about what my lifestyle will be like in six months that I have no way of knowing from this vantage point. (Will I be working from home? Walking to work? Riding the bus for 5 minutes? For 15? For 90? All of these are serious possibilities!)
(of course, it *would* let me join Signal without fear, in any case)
I'll have to bear it in mind. I can always start with the $12 plan and switch if I find the $25 plan would be worth it.
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(edit: part 3)
