Yeah we get screwed here on plans. They sometimes have "deals" where they advertise a cheap rate but it's usually only for 6 months. Back in the CDMA days you could get unlimited though and if you were grandfathered into those plans as long as you don't touch anything you get to keep it but minute you do anything like add a feature or something you lose it. Lot of people lost those plans when they shut down CDMA though. It wasn't fast but unlimited is unlimited.
I'm on a prepaid plan where it's sorta unlimited and probably one of the cheapest plans you can get here at $25, if I go over the 500MB cap it will throttle me instead of charging dollars on each MB over, so I can live with that. My home internet is unlimited so all the heavy bandwidth stuff is done there. You can also get a data-only $15 plan which I might actually use on my off grid property for telemetry data, once I build something there. You get 500MB at regular 3G speeds then after that it's dialup speed, but you don't get overcharged so to me it's better than like 1GB and then having to pay extra for each MB, which is what the main carriers do. Though looking at plans on Bell now it looks like the caps are higher now compared to last I checked when they were only single digit for same prices. You can get 25GB for $75/mo. 50GB for $95/mo is the highest. That's still not that much data though if you actually plan to use it to it's full extent. I'll stick with my $25/mo plan and just do all the heavy downloads on wifi.
What's crazy is they are provisioning massive data to all the cell towers, I don't get why they are not just letting people use it to it's full extent. They used to only use microwave but now it's mostly all fibre. So it's not like they are hurting for bandwidth and given the land line internet is unlimited they clearly can afford to provide it on cell too, all goes through the same pipe on Front St (I assume) where they have to pay for it.