Not all Internet experiences are equal though. 1 GB of internet in Pakistan ($0.69) ≠ 1 GB of internet in Canada ($12.55). I would gladly trade my Pakistani internet plan for my Canadian internet plan.
Last month, when I was in Pakistan, my experience was:
+ highly censored to the point where even services like Cloudflare's edge-node's within the country were being MiTM-ed by the censors [0];
+ I couldn't use "any mode of communication such as VPN by means of which communication becomes hidden or encrypted is a violation of PTA regulations" in the words of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authoruty (PTA) —Pakistan's FCC-equivalent. I asked them if TLS/SSL was included but they never tweeted back; and
+ I didn't have access to services like Paypal, and when a service hadn't rolled out "globally", it wasn't available to me.
Oh, and while I had "unlimited" internet, I was subject to my carrier's "Fair Use Policy" which had an unspecified maximum download limit after which your internet would be cut off. This was reported by a lot of people during the initial work-from-home boost during the pandemic when home-data-usage spiked.
Now that I'm in Canada, my internet is nearly unrestricted.
Edit: previous said my ISP restricted IRC. Just rechecked, it no longer does.
[0]: https://twitter.com/amingilani/status/1283448960666009601
Last month, when I was in Pakistan, my experience was:
+ highly censored to the point where even services like Cloudflare's edge-node's within the country were being MiTM-ed by the censors [0];
+ I couldn't use "any mode of communication such as VPN by means of which communication becomes hidden or encrypted is a violation of PTA regulations" in the words of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authoruty (PTA) —Pakistan's FCC-equivalent. I asked them if TLS/SSL was included but they never tweeted back; and
+ I didn't have access to services like Paypal, and when a service hadn't rolled out "globally", it wasn't available to me.
Oh, and while I had "unlimited" internet, I was subject to my carrier's "Fair Use Policy" which had an unspecified maximum download limit after which your internet would be cut off. This was reported by a lot of people during the initial work-from-home boost during the pandemic when home-data-usage spiked.
Now that I'm in Canada, my internet is nearly unrestricted.
Edit: previous said my ISP restricted IRC. Just rechecked, it no longer does.
[0]: https://twitter.com/amingilani/status/1283448960666009601