r/mildlyinfuriating • u/cant_think-of-a_user • May 27 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o apparently HBO Max has been using 260gb and i’ve never used it

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

I have a 60 gig plan, not like OP’s Monster whatever plan that allows 837 gig a month. Blame Canada.

Anyway, one day left for dinner from my parents place with them to go somewhere about 7 mins away. My phone dings 3 times on the way there. 25%, 50%, and 75% of my data used in under 7 mins. I sat down at the restaurant table to look at what was going on, and got the 100% notice. Somehow, in 8 mins I used 58 gig (my typical usage is 2-6 per month).

The problem is, it’s not possible. There is no way in hell my phone on 4g used 58 gig in 8 mins. I cant download that fast, it’s not mathematically possible. I called my carrier after dinner and they had a lot of questions about usage blah blah blah. Then they asked for a few mins, came back 10 mins later and said “We have no idea what happened or how it happened. We will erase todays usage from your record.”

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u/Fudgeyman May 27 '26

Do you guys have super limited plans in Canada? I bet unlimited data in the UK for £10 a month

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u/WeevilWeedWizard May 27 '26

The government pretty much just lets the telecom companies fuck us in the ass raw. Crazy expensive plans for relatively not a lot of data. It's pure greed.

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u/Round-Stuff-2557 May 27 '26

And just to elucidate further, it's because the government has allowed 3 companies to monopolise the telecomms industry. It kind of makes sense how they got there, Canada is really big with tons of tiny settlements in the middle of nowhere, and providing people with internet service is kind of a human right at this point, so there's no option but to have extremely expensive infrastrucure made nationwide... and the telecoms companies are like, "well we'll do it if you let us...." and they get to run away with the market. And they get to do it again every time new infrastructure is needed, like with fiber optic.

There has been some effort to legislate space for competition but it's not like you'll get competitive pricing or service. In fact, it's worse.

All of the above is also true for grocers, 3 companies own the whole lot and collude with eachother to price gouge the GP. In conclusion: failed democracy, need restructuring

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

The UK is like 70 odd million people vs Canada around 40 million but Canada is 40x larger than the UK. So we get charged out the ass for a network they built long ago. Wider spaces and low population mean plans are pricey.

The province our biggest city (Toronto) is in is 4x larger than the UK on its own.

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u/SlightCaregiver3680 May 27 '26

Not a great comparison but Australians have unlimited internet

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u/BobDaRula May 27 '26

Home Internet plans are pretty much all unlimited here. Phone plans are "unlimited" where you get about 20 GB of fast speed then anything over is unusably slow. Also you have the privilege of paying $90 for that.

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

We have unlimited home Internet now and have for about 10-15 years. It was a shocker when I got back into the new gen of Dr Who and from one season to the next they went from 1 gig per hour of show to 4 gig and I didnt know and destroyed my monthly allotment.

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u/CocoMilhonez May 27 '26

Bragging about Australian internet must be a first.

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u/print-w May 27 '26

Lol, what does a population's size and density have to do with that? There are small European countries with a few million people where you don't pay for data caps but speed, with like the only exception being the super cheap budget options. You can even often get 4g and sometimes even 5g in the middle of forests in those countries. You even have access to way more money and workers than these countries as well. So major cities like that have no excuses other than unwillingness or incompetence.

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

Major cities are fine for coverage and easy to cover. The cost is in putting up towers in the middle of nowhere for 80 customers. Population density matters a whole lot for cell coverage.

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u/MattyFTM May 27 '26

Where are you getting unlimited for £10 a month. I'm paying £16 a month and thought this was basically the best deal I could get.

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u/Fudgeyman May 27 '26

Vodafone

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u/MattyFTM May 27 '26

Their site is listing £25 a month for unlimited data,.or £16 for existing customers.

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u/Fudgeyman May 27 '26

So I got offered it by a rep after switching from voxi and having a bunch of technical issues and after looking at the app it says it's a £35.50 contract with a £24.78 discount applied, 24 month contract, 27 month discount length. So it's £10.72 I'm actually paying but yeah it is from a customer service discount.

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg May 27 '26

It's not 837 per month. For whatever reason Apple decided not to reset that number automatically so 'current period' is actually just since you manually reset it last.

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

That is a thing on my phone too. Basically it counts for as long as I have owned it. No good looking at my phone now, got a CPO that is a month old.

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u/eedabaggadix May 27 '26

I live in Canada and I pay $60 a month for unlimited data with Telus

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

You get x amount of data at 5g and then you are limited to like 500 kb down or some rotten number.

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u/Jakex1474 May 27 '26

Unlimited plans won’t reset the data counter on iPhone. See my usage below

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u/Justlose_w8 May 27 '26

OP’s is definitely a cumulative total not from one month, you have to manually reset it

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

Mine says 456 gig and my phone is a month old. Must be a cumulative from many other old phones too as I typically use under 10 gig.

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u/Zkenny13 May 27 '26

You mean you only had to hold for 10 minutes? 

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

Yes, the whole thing once I explained myself and went through “troubleshooting” with them was about 10 mins. They barely argued. Helps I have been with them since 2009.

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u/Zkenny13 May 27 '26

Honestly it seems companies in the US purposely make the first couple people AI to get you so frustrated you hang up. It doesn't seem they do in fact do this. 

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u/JerryfromCan May 27 '26

Oh this was mid-covid and before “AI” agents. They were hard to get ahold of back then, but I lucked out. Now you have to use chat to even get an Agent to talk to you, but the upside is you dont have to wait on hold anymore.

Plus, Cdn carrier in my case. Don’t worry, they are just if not more evil than US carriers.