Verizon Wants Into Canada... Big Deal.

Jul 26, 2013 00:57

According to this article, the big three Canadian telecom providers, Rogers, Bell and Telus, are crying real tears to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, because the US telecom giant, Verizon wants to buy a couple of Canadian cell-phone start-ups, Mobilicity and Wind Mobile, and bid in the next round of spectrum ( Read more... )

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whitewulfe July 26 2013, 23:28:52 UTC
Don't forget about Solo.... Which is also owned by Bell.

Gawd I hate our wireless market.

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dotter_can July 27 2013, 00:04:50 UTC
What I hate is that there doesn't seem to be much, if anything, that we can do about it. Even the Harper government realized that real competition was needed and we got it... Mobilicity, Public Mobile and Wind... but they never really took off. I'm with Fido, which is owned by Rogers; I'm on minutes because I don't want to be under a Rogers contract.

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whitewulfe July 27 2013, 00:24:41 UTC
Yeah, and our government, despite trying to encourage competition (and the CRTC attempting to reduce prices through legislation, even though Rogers already has proven the new rules to be otherwise - hopefully the government cracks down on them... doubtful, but who knows).... We just wind up with a pretty much price-fixed monopoly running the show ( ... )

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