As more and more professionals are being required to go mobile, wireless data access is slowing becoming almost a necessity. I even recently changed my cell phone from the black Motorola RAZR I had previously mentioned (which I found to be a great phone BTW) to the HTC S621 (aka HTC Excalibur aka T-Mobile Dash). So far it's been a good phone and mobile data device.

The limitation, however, really comes from the amount of data I can use. My current data plan gives me 5 MB of data, which was recently bumped up from 2 MB I was using before. There's been endless rants about how data is overpriced in this country compared to the United States, where some carriers offer unlimited data for about $20. The latest rant really illustrates how bad it is: Not only do people from the United States, the UK and Australia have it much better, Rwanda has better data rates than Canada.

The writer makes a good point: If we want businesses to come to Canada and create high end white collar jobs, we can't keep allowing the big cell phone providers to keep data rates the way they are.

Competition Bureau, are you out there and reading this?