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Mr.Coffee · 07-16-2013, 08:47 PM

the whole argument that to start a phone company you have to build towers next to wild roaming buffalo in middle-of-nowhere Alberta so that 1 guy can have cell phone access is ridiculous.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/cana...l-wb-data.html

Over 80% of people in Canada live in urban areas. Over 14 million Canadians live in cities over 1 million people in size. You can access large amounts of people without a huge extensive network, and you can compete in urban areas. You don't need to plot the countryside in cell phone towers.

I'm not certain infrastructure is the true reasoning behind why new entrants aren't entering the Canadian marketplace... and I'm not sure what is. I just don't get why people say because Canada is big you can't have fair priced cell phone plans.

07-16-2013, 08:47 PM	#61
Mr.Coffee damn onions Join Date: Mar 2006 Exp:	the whole argument that to start a phone company you have to build towers next to wild roaming buffalo in middle-of-nowhere Alberta so that 1 guy can have cell phone access is ridiculous. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/cana...l-wb-data.html Over 80% of people in Canada live in urban areas. Over 14 million Canadians live in cities over 1 million people in size. You can access large amounts of people without a huge extensive network, and you can compete in urban areas. You don't need to plot the countryside in cell phone towers. I'm not certain infrastructure is the true reasoning behind why new entrants aren't entering the Canadian marketplace... and I'm not sure what is. I just don't get why people say because Canada is big you can't have fair priced cell phone plans.