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Old 06-20-2009, 06:58 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tisonlyi View Post
Asia's better than both, though.
Asia generally leads in all things technological.

As for this issue of text messaging, it's shocking to see this number, but that the markup was high is not surprising. Canada is generally overcharged on all cell services, especially data plans. Things are still set up as though data transfers are a casual thing: checking the weather, downloading ring tones, etc. You know, the extent of what people did five years ago.

Have a look see:



This one's from a couple of years ago:

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