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Originally Posted by accord1999
But Canada is such a big country that even the 10% part of Canada would be the second largest country in Europe, only behind Russia, and bigger than continental France and Germany combined.
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Yeah, but look at the number of cell sites per country. Granted, it's a rudimentary way to look at it, but I'm not really seeing how there's so much more infrastructure required to serve Canada:
-Canada has 13K sites for a population of 34 million
-The UK has 52K sites for a population of 63 million
-The US has 190K sites for a population of 314 million
So Canada has 25% the number of sites compared the UK while having 54% of the population and compared to the US we have under 7% of the number of towers with about 11% of the population. So on a per capita basis, we have about 50% fewer sites than the UK and 35% fewer than the United States.
Obviously that's not the whole story as I imagine things get cheaper as they're scaled upwards, but I'm really not seeing the infrastructure argument for cell phone rates in Canada.