So just to clarify one thing there; if you sign up for the 2 year contract with the USB stick then you don't need to buy the fido SIM card in step one, because the USB stick comes with it?

One other thing that may be of some good is that there are supposed to be some new carriers moving into Canada in the next few months (exact details escape me now, I heard about it a while ago) which might help to bring in some actual competition since they're supposed to be actually running their own networks rather than just reselling like everyone else...