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Originally Posted by HOOT
You look down in the States even at the largest carrier there is Verizon who has over 67,000,000 customers when the largest carier in Canada is Rogers with a customer base of only 7,500,000 (11% of the consumer base of Verizon). So now tell me who you think can afford to give their customers a better rate?
Its like going to a mom and pops corner store and complaing they charge more for chips than Costco does.
Seriously....find me the best deal you can in the world!
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Hoot, I'm totally against you with this argument. I don't have the figures, but I'll tell you why this argument is flawed: the number of customers does not necessarily their costs are higher. As has been brought up earlier in this thread, Rogers and other cell providers set up shop where the population is more dense. I don't have their figueres on their towers or anything, but I think Rogers has less costs than Verizon per capita simply because Canada tends to have clusters of people in certain areas, whereas the US population is widely spread and so towers have to be everywhere and anywhere to make up for this. I think the better indication to see whose getting better value is to simply examine their financial statements and see who what company is making more net income per customer (ie: total net income/# of customers). Regardless if Rogers is in the cable and internet business, Rogers screws the average customer IMO outta a hell of a lot more compared to other companies.