pnjunction
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join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
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Re: Here's what can happen when a monopoly has too much control!
Ooh this thing is heating up.
I've said on other message boards that I can't wait for mobile access to be purely data-based and scrap these exorbitant rates for voice and text.
Look at the numbers:
4kbps compressed voice signal * 2 (up/down) * 60 seconds in a minute = 480 kilobits
A carrier might charge $0.25 for that (around here anyways, it might be slightly cheaper over there).
$0.25/480kb = $0.52/Mb = $4.17/MB or $4170/GB
Text messages are even worse, a $0.15 text message around here is about $750/MB or $750,000/GB.
I long for the day when we get a decent rate per GB and just use VOIP and IM. It seems the battle has begun.
Too bad the incumbents bought all of the new spectrum around here AFAIK. We're screwed. |
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Martian3
join:2004-10-17
Lindsay, ON
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| said by pnjunction  :Too bad the incumbents bought all of the new spectrum around here AFAIK. We're screwed. That's not entirely true. Globalive (owner of Yak) picked up a big chunk of the available spectrum, and there's a new player called DAVE too. I'm not optimistic that Quebecor has any incentive to differentiate itself from the incumbents, but hopefully one of the other two can generate some competition.
I have a lot to say about the state of the mobile industry in Canada, as well as telecom in general. We're getting ripped off, but hopefully change is on the horizon. The CAIP and companies like Teksavvy are part of that, and I'm optimistic that the new entrants in the mobile market will be too.
It's a bizarre mentality that finding a company like TSI, who actually seems to prioritize the welfare of their customers, seems strange and foreign. |
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davidl
join:2008-07-11
Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC
·Look Communications
| said by Martian3 :That's not entirely true. Globalive (owner of Yak) picked up a big chunk of the available spectrum, and there's a new player called DAVE too Well, the incumbents are working daily on snapping up the rest of the spectrum. My former ISP 'Look Communications' just got bought up by a Bell/Rogers co-op company called 'Inukshuk'...the only thing they wanted was Look's piece of the spectrum. Bell/Rogers will eventually divvy up Look's DSL customers and the spectrum, dissolve the co-op and mission accomplished. Of course, nobody in the government said boo about it.
That's why we switched to TekSavvy  |
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