SaskTel is a bit... all over the place. Sometimes their plans are a great deal, sometimes not. When got my first smartphone, I had a $60CAD/mo unlimited everything plan. You get to stick with your plan until you do a subsidized phone upgrade, so I held onto that for a long long time. When I got a new phone, there were no unlimited plans for two upgrade cycles, and the high data (13GB was my last one) plans were expensive ($110/mo). My most recent upgrade they started offering a $90/mo unlimited plan again.
Edit: also, the three major carriers (Rogers, Telus, Bell) generally offer different packages in SK than they do for the rest of the country, to remain competitive with SaskTel. Another fun thing: while Rogers has some towers in the province, the LTE towers are all generally owned by SaskTel and there’s an agreement in place to let the other use them. In exchange, SaskTel customers get to use Bell and Telus towers in the rest of the country without incurring roaming charges. That used to not be the case and we’d be limited to 250MB of data out of province.
Used to be there were competitive Manitoba plans but Bell bought MTS and those disappeared (now you maybe save $15/month vs the half price it used to be). It’s just a matter of time before one of the big three buys SaskTel, either Bell or Telus most likely.
More than telecommunications, it’s irritating how much of cable and network TV is owned by these companies, with lucrative US licensing and distribution rights for many properties so they can sell you a four-way bundle of home phone, cell phone, TV and Internet. So few companies can offer all of the above, and while it’s nice that we’ve CRTC-mandated limited competitive sharing to a limited extent on Internet lines, for everything else the CRTC is incredibly anti-consumer, only going after the worst behaviour when it’s been happening for a decade as “normal”.
Edit: also, the three major carriers (Rogers, Telus, Bell) generally offer different packages in SK than they do for the rest of the country, to remain competitive with SaskTel. Another fun thing: while Rogers has some towers in the province, the LTE towers are all generally owned by SaskTel and there’s an agreement in place to let the other use them. In exchange, SaskTel customers get to use Bell and Telus towers in the rest of the country without incurring roaming charges. That used to not be the case and we’d be limited to 250MB of data out of province.