kalkulatWe No Longer Need a Big Carrier’s Wireless Plan. Discount Ones Are the Way.
Cows Look Like MapsCanada: That’s gunna be hard no.
KairuByteIt is absolutely insane to me the level of monopoly three companies hold. To the point where entering the market is nigh but impossible.
But of course “three different entities battling it out doesn’t make a monopoly” but it does if they happen to work together juuuust enough to keep things in the shitty situation that currently exists for consumers.
LWDIt’s basically three companies in the United States too. Used to be four. They just lease out their towers so a bunch of cheaper companies can create “second class citizens” on their networks.
I was in the UK and got a SIM card for travel and when the person working at the store heard I visited from Canada, they said they heard we have the most expensive internet and mobile plans. I couldn’t believe how cheap it was there.
Problem is, the smaller companies that the big 3 lease their infrastructure to here are often more expensive. There’s been multiple cases of Rogers et al. bullying the smaller companies and making their service unstable or decreasing speeds randomly. I’m sure its the same in the states as our regulatory board the CRTC essentially being a lobbying board lol.
Things are definitely getting worse. It was four companies a few years back, and the biggest reason prices aren’t increasing is because our three giants are presumably locked into a little standoff, all of them waiting for the other to make their move.