Romania was an unregulated market for the first years after broadband became available, as a result there was immense competition for customers leading to rock bottom prices for huge amounts of bandwidth, while in the rest of Europe the local telcos were up to their old games.

In Canada the situation was so bad you simply had zero choice as to which provider you would get, it was whoever supplied your cable connection, unless you wanted dial up.

Unbelievable that even today these companies are trying to gauge their customers and would deny them options to do this themselves. It's the bloody internet, not something they had a hand in creating.