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Originally Posted by Ducay
I disagree - wireless costs have come down massively over the last 12 months or so. How much is due to Shaw/Rogers merger, who knows, but I know it is easy to get a on-market plan for $35-40 these days with 20+GB of data. Plans all started at $50 monthly even just a year or so ago. So not only has the data amounts gone up (expected as data proliferates) but cost has also gone down, which is the better indicator of market health & competition.
Freedom (Shaw/Rogers) even have a 2 year 50GB plan for Canada and US usage for $34! Hard to argue there hasn't been a massive drop in prices & increase in what you're getting.
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They are back to gouging people for financing phones. The $35 dollar deals are all being your own phones but disappear if you need financing. Then you have $60 minimums even on phones with no additional subsidy. Then you have them adding the bring your phone back plans which effectively is a way to get you to sign up for locked in contracts with high penalties that don’t prorate down by month.
So some of the competition on bring your own device has is working and lowering price however it’s another it’s expensive to be poor item that has been created.