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Originally Posted by InCoGnEtO
15 carriers for 310 million people in the US, 4 for 35 million in Canada. Seems sound to me.
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Except Rogers and Shaw do not compete with each other so the number is at most 3 at any given place in the country. I would love to see more ISPs (with their own backbone) in Canada, but reality is with the old size vs population argument, I doubt it will happen. People bitch that existing providers are using infrastructure paid for by the government without realizing that things would be much more expensive if the ISPs had to pay off billions of dollars in startup investment in addition to their operating/expanding costs.
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Originally Posted by Azure
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I am sure if anyone pays out $2 a GB on data that Shaw will be laughing themselves silly all the way to the bank, but an intelligent consumer would realize they are consuming more data than thier plan and purchase an upgraded plan or a data bucket and pay 20cents a GB. If you think 20cents is too much to charge for something that costs "a few cents" to provide, then perhaps you should consider boycotting the entire consumer process, because that is a very reasonable markup.
If someone using 2GB of data on their phones (with a 500MB plan) and complained their cell phone costs too much, you would probably laugh in their face and call them an idiot for using so much data without a plan to support it. The same applies here. Stupid people will pay too much when they go over.