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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
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.
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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. |
Yeah totally man. Ya know what the gove.. err CRTC should do, is develop a spectrum auction, ya know that stuff phones work over in the air, to allow the new users easy access into the big3 dominated market.
Then ya know what, we should let them have ample access to foreign investment monies, so they can spend spend spend on the network.. ya know ? i think they should start in the big cities too.. the calgary's/toronto's/montreal's.. ya know? where they'll be certain to get the high margin, ARPU-rich type clinet.. cuz those are the ones who are just itching to leave their existing big3 provider right? Of course they are, i know this..
Then once, they've developed this huge network, and their margins are rich,.. THEN.. Then.. (get this).. they can go after those, high maintenance, aft-calling, low margin, low arpu user, because at that point their network has been built out for a while, that acquiring the "lower price-point" user, will still be profitable for them.
ACTUALLY YA KNOW WHAT, I'm going to write the CRTC about more than just new entrants, I'm going to write about reducing term limits, from 3 to 2 years, because just like the banks & mortgages, I don't think Canadians should be allowed to amortize purchases for long periods of time.
right guys?
right?
guys?
