[karen]

We Canadians just laugh, then cry, at the thought of doing this. With our unlimited plans maxed out at 30 MB per MONTH, the thought of running up a muti-million dollar monthly bill will stop us from using this year 2009 technology. Probably until Telus, Rogers, and Bell start offering data plans that work in this century.

...which means when a certain warm spot turns icy....

[karen]

We Canadians just laugh, then cry, at the thought of doing this. With our unlimited plans maxed out at 30 MB per MONTH, the thought of running up a muti-million dollar monthly bill will stop us from using this year 2009 technology. Probably until Telus, Rogers, and Bell start offering data plans that work in this century.

...which means when a certain warm spot turns icy....

[Brad Adrian]

Originally Posted by karen

...With our unlimited plans maxed out at 30 MB per MONTH...

I had forgotten all about that wonderful Canadian definition of the word "unlimited.!" It always reminds me of that running joke in The Princess Bride:

Vizzini: He didn't fall? INCONCEIVABLE!
Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not tihnk it means what you think it means.

[karen]

Originally Posted by Brad Adrian

I had forgotten all about that wonderful Canadian definition of the word "unlimited.!"

And I'm not just a whiner about these plan prices. I seriously believe that the Canadian telecommunications model puts Canada at a strategic disadvantage when it comes to competitiveness, innovation, and public safety.

I tweeted last week that I thought is was very, very odd that I saw ZERO live twitpics of Obama's visit to Canada. Sure, there may have been some, but it was nothing like other Obama sightings around the globe, even before he held the office of President. This week I saw dozens of live twitpics of a specialty conference in Vegas. You'd think that I would have seen many times more of those from the Obama visit.

I don't believe that the average Canadian cell phone user can reasonably adopt wireless data technologies and actually make use of them in any meaningful way. Sure, we lived for centuries without twitpic, twitter, and mobile phones. But the rest of the world is conducting business, living their lives, and saving their lives via these newish communication methods. The world is moving on, and Canadian mobile customers are being left behind. The pricing and restrictions (think about Bell Mobility's recent bad PR about their twitter war on device tweets, think the extra year of committment required on an iPhone contract, think about the 30MB "unlimited" plans...) are barriers to entry into a global discussion that the rest of the world has been having for years.

Get clued in, Telus, Bell, Rogers, and Fido.

[psyjohn]

Can anyone help out with a problem? I have no problem connecting to the internet using my phone as a modem. My wife, however, has a recently reformatted laptop that does not recognize her phone when she tries to connect. She can access files, etc. through USB, but when she tries to connect with Internet Sharing she gets pop-ups on her laptop saying "new device installed" and then the new hardware wizard comes up. She gets messages referring to Broadcom Security Platform Personal Secure Drivers and another that says the TPM Connection is disabled or not installed. This is all beyond my understanding, but if anyone can help I'm generally pretty good at figuring things out.

Her laptop is a Dell Latitude D810 and her phone is a Samsung Omnia i910.

Thank you,
John