Comments on: Quick Guide for Canadians Traveling with an iPhone to the USA http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/01/quick-guide-for-canadians-traveling-with-your-iphone-to-the-usa/ A Guide to Social Media for Bloggers Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:55:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: François La Roche http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/01/quick-guide-for-canadians-traveling-with-your-iphone-to-the-usa/#comment-6013 François La Roche Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:43:44 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=526#comment-6013 Thanks for your post Kim (and Jérôme !). This proves my point : telecomm is still way too complicated for consumers. I just called Fido to try to understand the fees that I would incurr for my 10-day trip to the the US these coming days. It is ridiculously complicated and intertwined with exception clauses and Ifs and Buts that honestly make the offer, well, certainly not appealing at all. It will end up costing me less to but a cheap phone in a US store with a prepaid card (unless I go the unlocking/jailbeaking way with my iPhone which I don't necessarily want to do...). Sigh... Quick ! Open the airwaves to US competition in Canada. Enough with this consumer gauging! Hear my cry, folks. This is nuts, don't you think ? Thanks for your post Kim (and Jérôme !).

This proves my point : telecomm is still way too complicated for consumers. I just called Fido to try to understand the fees that I would incurr for my 10-day trip to the the US these coming days. It is ridiculously complicated and intertwined with exception clauses and Ifs and Buts that honestly make the offer, well, certainly not appealing at all. It will end up costing me less to but a cheap phone in a US store with a prepaid card (unless I go the unlocking/jailbeaking way with my iPhone which I don’t necessarily want to do…).

Sigh…
Quick ! Open the airwaves to US competition in Canada. Enough with this consumer gauging! Hear my cry, folks. This is nuts, don’t you think ?

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