Yeah Europe seems to have become much more reliant on phones than Canada. But they’re also more accessible; in Ontario, I was paying $70/month for a basic plan that had like 2gb data and 100 texts, and that was having brought my own phone. Here, we pay the equivalent of $50 for the both of us, unlimited call and texting with 10GB data in Denmark and an additional 6GB data roaming anywhere in the EU, and that wasn’t the only option. The monopoly in parts of Canada make it really expensive to have a phone with data, which has made it slower for things to become reliant on them (since not everyone has access). Our vaccine records are all digital, travel tickets are all digital, library access, even govt communications. It’s better for reducing paper but it does mean that a phone is a necessary part of life now.