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Originally Posted by Weitz
Do you have any links to said studies? Curious to take a look.
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The big 3 have been pushing the population density justification for years and it's been disproven since all the way back to 2012. While we are a big country the vast majority of Canada's population density is concentrated in the southern latitudes.
https://openmedia.org/article/item/w...do-size-canada
Even if we were entirely spread out evenly for our population density, the fact we come in way higher than Australia which is less population dense than us blows that argument out of the water. Read the Rewheel study in my other post + look up the population density of Australia on wiki.
Take a look at this graph of population density vs. plan pricing. We are embarrassingly bad when compared to other first world countries.
https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comm...ot_the_reason/
Look up reports from the OECD, the CRTC Communications Monitoring Report, as well as read some of the stuff from Michael Geist. We're paying higher monthly charges, roaming charges, hidden fees (pure profit, countries in Asia, Europe give away sim cards for free at kiosks and magazines where we pay $20-30 for a sim, there no such thing as number porting/connection fees, we were still charging for text messages until Wind/Freedom Mobile showed up, etc), and all of that contributes to higher ARPU in Canada compared to other countries.
http://www.oecd.org/internet/broadband/48127892.pdf