*baffled* What an odd phone... I think the new LG Shine and the new Moto Razr look slick. Or just go to your nearest Chinese Mall and buy an unlocked international phone and then put a cheap plan on it. My buddy has a 3MP Camera Vodophone. It's pretty slick.
That actually has nothing to do with why the iPhone isn't in Canada. It's because of litigation with a company in Canada called Comwave. They offer a service called iphone. Anyway, the douche used it as a modem? Would have been really hard to have done a google search before hand to see if they would ding him for that?
While the bill is outrageous, he should have made sure before he started exactly what he was doing and what it cost.