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Originally Posted by cam_wmh
Are Verizon's prices cheaper?
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No! Yes! Kinda... but regardless, they'll be in an entirely different position if they enter Canada.
In the US, they are not at all known for good prices (unless, like me, you have grandfathered unlimited data) but people accept their higher prices because their voice/data coverage has always been leaps and bounds ahead of every other US carrier. They've basically
finished their 4G LTE rollout, which now covers 300M people. A couple summers ago we were driving along out in the middle of nowhere Wyoming and I checked my phone and I not only had service, but I had 3G service. I can pretty much guarantee none of the other carriers would have had any service whatsoever. The weird thing on that was that I could see basically to the horizon in every direction and couldn't really see a cell tower, but whatever.
So in Canada, unless they don't even start selling their service until they've spent the $10B someone mentioned, they won't have that same hook that allows them to charge more (and screw their customers at every turn) like they do in the US. They'll have to compete on price, unless they can manage to sell future hopes and dreams of coverage maps.