HD voice over LTE should fix some of that. You'll have to live with a bigger latency though.
[Rant] FUCK ALL OF THE CELL PHONE PROVIDERS
- Thread starter Chad Sexington
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With current data restrictions of 2 gb a month, any idea of how many minutes you'd get doing that?
I pay 25€ a month,which included a new Sony Xperia Z, an Internet Flat and a all-net flatrate. 
GasBandit
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That's way more than enough. Skype uses about 5kbytes/sec for highest quality audio, in my experience, and that works out to be roughly 20,000 minutes.
See why verizon blocked it? Even on 3G, skype was better. Latency wasn't usually an issue except when signal strength was, or the dumb thing started updating apps during a call.
I pay €30 to top up my phone occasionally. That gives me 30 days of free calls to anyone in the country, unlimited texts to my network, and some data (which I don't use anyway). Once that's up I pay per second/text...€30 usually lasts me somewhere between 3 and 4 months, so I'm paying about $10 a month for everything I need and a whole lot more.
I pay 130 a month through T-Mobile with insurance and unlimited everything for 2 phones I could take it down to 110 if I took off insurance
It's a racket
TELUS and MTS don't have a tower sharing arrangement south of Winnipeg so when I've been travelling there for work, my TELUS phone gets no service whatsoever. I had service in the middle of the Caribbean, but no service in Southern Manitoba...WTF? I could pop across to Minnesota or North Dakota to get service.
Fucking TELUS.
Fucking TELUS.
As much as I hate to DEFEND Telus, it sounds like it's MTS who are probably being assholes, saying "nah, we'd rather force everybody in the area to take ONLY us, so no, no sharing agreement for that area."
It took forever for Rogers to get tower sharing with MTS for LTE service. Rogers was advertising LTE Phones for months before they could support it in Manitoba.