@srlawren wrote:@LenK good luck in your search for cheaper rates for data. Hint: you may want to have a look here for some fairly appealing plans: https://www.zoomerwireless.ca/promotion_offer/data-bonus-offer.
A little more on that.
I do not have a need for very many calls using a cellular phone, being a retired old fart. A couple of years ago I started trying Wi-Fi calling apps. In order to do that, I piggybacked a "tablet" plan onto my wife's cellular account with Fido and using the SIM card in my phone. 2 gigabytes for $15 a month. Even though it is called a tablet plan and is intended for data only, I discovered on initial use that calling and messaging was possible, but with a very heavy surcharge. Just another way of gouging the public, I thought.
When I discovered Public Mobile and the 50/50 plan, that seemed ideal, because the Wi-Fi calling apps were not always reliable. Later, I decided to cancel the Fido data subscription. When I called to do so, they offered me an extension of 2 years for free. Obviously I couldn't refuse. From my own experience and that of others, it seems that almost any carrier will offer a "special" deal when a client requests a cancellation.
I decided to continue with the PM 50/50 because it was a minimal expense, but then I found another Wi-Fi calling app that is much better than any other I tried, TextNow. It offers Wi-Fi calling in Canada and the US, and plans to use data for calling, but only in the United States, so for some time I used it for calling only with Wi-Fi, including using their web interface on a Chromebook. A year ago I was in Bogota, Colombia, and was looking at posts on a forum about TextNow. One person said that it was too bad it didn't work over data in Canada, to which another person replied that he had tried it and it does. I tried it using my Colombian data plan to call a Canadian number and it worked!
Canada has by far some of the highest internet and cellular charges. In Colombia I get unlimited SMS and national calling, free Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, plus a reasonable amount of data for about 40 cents a day. It may not be a completely fair comparison, but I think you will agree that the difference is substantial.
(I guess this turned out to be a lot more on that - thanks for listening 
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