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“Canada ranks among the more expensive countries within the G7 in every category but one,” wrote University of Ottawa tech law professor Michael Geist in an analysis.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission would agree. In a report using data from early 2016, the CRTC commissioned Nordicity to rank eight wealthy countries for wireless pricing, and found that Canada took the number one or number two spot in almost all categories.

The most dramatic disparity was for entry-level phones. A German can pick up a bare-bones mobile plan for as little as $17 a month. The lowest a Canadian could pay, according to the CRTC, was $ 41.08.

(Telecoms have reminded us that they now offer $25 plans, but for service levels well below most entry-level plans found abroad. Rogers’ $25 a month plan, for instance, buys 150 local minutes, 50 text messages and no data.)

Meanwhile, in most of the rest of the world it is considered a birthright that citizens be able to operate a cell phone for less than a dollar a day.

In the U.K., $27 can buy 300 minutes, unlimited texts, 300 MB of data — and functionality across the entire E.U.

Across the channel in France, $23 can buy unlimited calls and texts across Europe, the United States and even France’s far-flung overseas territories.

In January, European analyst Tefficient released its latest report into worldwide mobile data and found that Canadians were paying more for mobile data than any other of 32 wealthy countries surveyed.