Canada - Mobile plan's

[KazuSnow]

I will be moving to Canada soon and am trying to find a good sim plan (i have the phone) mainly with data, however they all seem so expensive!?

TO put it into context in Australia I pay AU$45 for 5 GB of data and unlimited calls/text's.

So I would like to ask two questions
1) What plan are you on and do you think its a good deal
2) Toronto freinds, are there good free wifi station in and around the city?

 

[firedept]

You are going to find all plans in Canada expensive. If you are coming with your own phone then the plans are a little more reasonable. Unfortunately the big 3 providers in Canada (Telus, Rogers & Bell) have a stranglehold on the consumer.

I am with Telus and own my phones outright. My plans are the minimum at $40,mth CDN per phone. Which only provides me with 1GB shared data. For each additional GB of data, I would have to pay $5/mth.

Some of our smaller providers are slightly better, but are owned by the big 3. For a real plan with most of the options ticked off., you can look at something in the $100+ range. It is expensive in Canada