07-24-2013, 04:33 AM
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First Line Centre
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OpenMedia.ca: Holes poked in big telecoms’ excuses for Canada’s high mobile rates
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It is a popular myth that high prices are due to Canada’s size and population density. But as technology consultants at the SeaBoard Group argue, “Canada’s carriers do not actually provide coverage across 90% of the land mass” because most of our population is concentrated in a small number of cities.
As wireless providers are only serving a small percentage of this geography, the total size of Canada has little bearing on service costs. Big Telecom’s own lobby group, the CWTA, has noted that Canada has just 13,000 wireless towers—a small fraction of the 52,000 found in the U.K., which is only 1/40th our size.
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FU, Jim Benning
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GMs around the campfire tell a story that if you say Sbisa 5 times in the mirror, he appears on your team with a 3.6 million cap hit.
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