>My phone service is Rogers and my internet is Cogeco, so this outage isn't a huge problem for me. If it were the other way around, I could route through my phone, but it would be a serious impairment. If that happened a lot, I could buy a dedicated adapter but it would cost another "line" of service. Which is a monthly fee, regardless of use. It's not practical for most people to pay redundant contracts - but there's no technical reason for contracts. And it's not even a matter of fixed costs or physical interfaces - the cost of an alternate modem isn't a big problem.
AFAIK there are IOT/esim vendors that provide this sort of service. They give you a sim card that can "roam" between whatever providers you want around the world, and you only pay per MB of data transferred. The only downside is that such services carry a huge markup compared to plans from the providers themselves.
Canadian mobile is so expensive that it actually isn't a huge markup if you only use mobile data lightly.
I am curtusing a Bell "tablet" pay as you go plan and IIRC if I use under a GiB a month an internal roaming SIM would be cheaper. Plus it was measured by MiB instead of huge jumps like 1/2GiB, 1GiB, 2GiB, 5GiB, 10GiB. For these days where I am still almost always at home with WiFi I would have saved a decent bit of money.
The main reason I didn't take this option is because almost all of the providers tunnel their traffic yo some other country where their headquarters are. So the performance isn't necessary great. And even if they don't you usually get a foreign IP which results in blocks and wrong languages for many sites.
AFAIK there are IOT/esim vendors that provide this sort of service. They give you a sim card that can "roam" between whatever providers you want around the world, and you only pay per MB of data transferred. The only downside is that such services carry a huge markup compared to plans from the providers themselves.