From here.
I think it’s kind of disgusting that we’re getting fleeced like this, but I suppose it basically boils down to competition. I can’t say much for New Zealand or Rwanda, but I know there are so many mobile carriers in America that people are forced to offer crazy low prices for their product. In Canada we have what, 5? 6? And only a few of those are actually nationwide. For example, Fido doesn’t exist in Halifax, but Rogers does. Halifax has Aliant Mobility, which my Telus phone picks up on, and so on and so forth.
In any event, I’m pretty sure society will benefit if these services are priced cheaply enough that people who need or want them can get them at a reasonable price, rather than being dragged along like we are.
I just got a SMS from Rogers which says that they going to apply long-distance rates on top of my current air time rate to all long-distance incoming calls.
This is just ridicules.
In Canada we have worse mobile service in the world and this is not a joke. Most developing countries have lower price rate for much better quality mobile service. I will vote for anyone on next election who can promise that we will have the mobile service provider that can deliver high quality service with a reasonable price rate. There is no one country in Europe has so high price rate and so poor quality!!!