It's totally obscene. I traveled to the USA recently for 5 days and my options were:

i) Pay Telus $14/day * 5days = $70 (plus tax)

ii) Buy a US 30GB 10-day esim for $11.27 taxes included.

Plus in option i) I'd be using the data from my own data plan. Unless you really need to be able to use SMS and receive calls, it's really a no brainer. Especially with how easy esims are to setup, I just had to switch a setting in my phone when I crossed the border. Crazy part is, if it was ``only" twice the price, I'd probably have just paid Telus.

But do they?

I still have my British SIM card which gives me roaming in the states for an astonishingly cheap amount.

Canadian roaming is a nightmare to me. I'd be horrified if I accidentally left my phone on roaming or something.

This is a good thing, but why aren't people giving the "discount" brands a shot? I use Public Mobile (it's been fully owned by Telus for years) and I have 50gb that also works in the US for under 40 bucks/month. I can't think of any reason people should be willingly giving these companies twice as much money for less service.

Can we remove the "roaming" from that sentence? Our rates are too damn high!

The CRTC has asked Rogers, Bell and Telus to share steps they're taking to reduce roaming rates by November 4th.

Well if they asked....