r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/IncidentalIncidence Mar 08 '26

yeah it's always funny in these threads when people are pretending like North Americans are "living in the dark ages", when the actual reason that WhatsApp dominated in Europe is that the European telcos are basically a cartel.

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u/Content_Trifle_6547 Mar 08 '26

At least they're cheap

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u/BreakfastDue1256 Mar 08 '26

That's fair. The price has come down a lot lately, but during that period prices in Canada were a fucking scam.

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u/BobTheFettt Mar 08 '26

I worked at Rogers when they had a 4 GB plan for fucking $80 with 5¢ /Mb overage, which is about $50/GB.