{"id":638,"date":"2017-04-12T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gizmogrind.ca\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2020-11-13T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:32:09","slug":"owning-a-smartphone-in-canada-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/owning-a-smartphone-in-canada-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Cost of Owning A Smartphone In Canada &#8211; InfoGraphic 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Infographic on rising cost of owning a smartphone in Canada and the solution to get rid of it.&nbsp; You know the feeling, that gut turning moment when you get your cell phone bill in the mail. By the way, not opening it for a week doesn&#8217;t make it go away. It still sits on your counter, a juicy chunk out of your bank, really out of your life. Canadians are well travelled, comparing price plans abroad to what we pay here, most of us know its exorbitant. I\u2019ll explain how they&#8217;re extortionary! You probably also noticed that buying a new smartphone is getting pricey. These two factors are becoming a serious expense for Canadians, and many are slowly getting blindsided by the upward trend hoping it will get better. I hate to break it to you but after this, you\u2019ll see why its just getting started and prices will continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a graphical illustration as to why Canadians may remain one of the most expensive places in the world to own a smartphone. In fact, it&#8217;s a golden age for the big three telecommunication companies&nbsp;with competition being at its lowest point since 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-649 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gizmogrind.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/New.png\" alt=\"Cellphone Usage Cost in Canada - The rising cost of smartphone usage in Canada\" width=\"600\" height=\"4154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/New.png 296w, https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/New-36x250.png 36w, https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/New-148x1024.png 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"responisveClickLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/jean-pierre-blais-lower-phone-bills-in-canada-by-promoting-and-support-competition?recruiter=707818082&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=copylink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infographic on rising cost of owning a smartphone in Canada and the solution to get rid of it.&nbsp; You know the feeling, that gut turning moment when you get your cell phone bill in the mail. By the way, not opening it for a week doesn&#8217;t make it go away. It still sits on your&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/owning-a-smartphone-in-canada-infographic\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rising Cost of Owning A Smartphone In Canada &#8211; InfoGraphic 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,88,86,84,83,89,87],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-phone-tips","tag-85","tag-bell","tag-big-three-monopoly","tag-infographic","tag-rising-cost-of-owning-a-smartphone-in-canada","tag-rogers","tag-telus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizmogrind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}