| It's become a bad joke! Our Canadian Gov't has really failed us here. While publicly stating they are encouraging competition they are in fact doing NOTHING. It is only getting WORSE.
Our one and only WiMAX (pre-WiMAX still actually) provider is actually a joint venture by 2 of the 3 national Telco's in Canada. Since taking over the venture they have systematically taken a minimalistic approach to the point the service is too oversubscribed to compete with wired services....run by these same telcos! It's a joke!
We have among the highest 3G data rates in the world and the Telcos are doing EVERYTHING they can to preserve that. Although the Gov't has auctioned off spectrum to 3rd parties to encourage competetion there is still nothing in sight and all that appears to be happening is they are outsourcing some of the backend stuff to...again, these same Telcos's. The one and only 3rd party cell provider (virgin mobile) simply piggybacked on one of the Telco's wireless service and now has been completely bought out by the Telco.
It's a joke! |
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| As a conservative would say, it's the free market working! |
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| Oh yea, works great.....for some things. For essential services like Healthcare and utilities like Power/Telco it definitely does not. |
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