Unlocked iPhone: Still crippled for Canadians

I just read about George Hotz's exploit; he is the first to manage to fully unlock his Apple iPhone (instructions can be found on his blog). It's not so trivial a task, at least for the moment, for an avrerage user to achieve (no simple crack.exe to run, we're talking about some precise soldering here), but a flood of unlocked iPhones will surely appear on eBay shortly. Gadget geeks in the USA won't likely be the most interested in these, however, but rather those in the rest of the world. Americans will now be able to choose T-Mobile service instead of AT&T, but for the world citizen it means that the iPhone now becomes an actual option. Here in Canada, unfortunately, an iPhone would be effectively still crippled. It would be a nice looking and performing phone for sure, and a sleek iPod replacement to boot. But Internet/data? Forget about it. Unlike the competitive rates in many countries around the globe, where some service providers offer unlimited GPRS data transfers for a reasonable monthly fee, here the best option we have is currently around $100 for a mediocre 200 MB per month. Forget video or music streaming, and forget using your new eBay-iPhone as a connected camera to populate your Flickr account on the go... unless you have deep pockets...