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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew
How so? Australia which I think you can agree is about as sparsley populated as Canada if not more but there cell phone rates our nearly half ours. Not only do the 10 GB plans cost almost half as much as they do in Canada, but they even offer packages for up to 90 GB at reasonable prices too. The cell phone companies in Australia are doing just fine.
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Agree 100%. People latch on to ideas that have no basis in fact because it sounds good in their head. The reality is that our telecom industry is a monopoly and the incumbents (Bell, Rogers, Telus) have, thus far, successfully blocked the introduction of any real competition. For those who don't know, those 3 own other brands like Koodo, Fido, Solo, Virgin, etc. so it appears like we have lots of competition but we don't.
Canada has obscenely high telecom rates compared to the rest of the world. We're being gouged and have been for decades. I paid $35 Australian for a month and received
unlimited data, 500 free minutes of international calling, unlimited local calls, unlimited texts, etc. Canadian telecom fees are massively out of whack with what one sees elsewhere. It's not close at all.
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