I have no idea what you mean by Rogers not being "strict". Rogers charges loan-shark rates for data transfer via "tethering" -- which means if you aren't on a special non-advertised plan, and you connect your NIT to your bluetooth phone here in Canada and then download a 5MB MP3, you can pay hundreds of dollars.

This same company will sell you Wimax for $50 a month that has essentially unlimited downloading and a 1.5 Mbit/sec download rate. When mobile devices begin having wimax on-board, the market is going to dramatically shift; I can't see cell providers being able to maintain high data plan rates on the old cell network technologies.

I suspect your Canadian cousins were speaking of the fact that Rogers has "lightened up" recently on people downloading more than the published cap on cable Internet plans. They used to send out threatening letters to everyone, but recently competition in the market has driven prices down and download caps up.