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Originally Posted by photon
I don't know, we have a much bigger landmass but 90% of it isn't populated.
Someone new into the market could do like Fido did, just build in the major centres and go after 80% of the market.
Australia has similar issues too, large country, people clustered around small areas.
The operational costs here are likely higher, but like you say I still think they're taking advantage of the situation.
Maybe something like the iPhone, which is pretty dependent on lots of data transfer ability, will be enough to shift things; either Rogers comes out with new data plans when (if) they launch the iPhone forcing everyone else to compete, or eventually Telus or Bell launch a CDMA version that is supposedly in the cards and the same thing happens.
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There`s a reason Fido had to be bought out though, they were losing money hand over fist with their `reasonable rates`.
Roger`s doesn`t want the IPhone. Rogers is hoping that it doesn`t do very well. Apple would force them to give up all their content and only allow IPhones to data transfer from a computer that uses Itunes. Super convenient, eh? Why would they need a lot of data transferability when the Iphone will only connect to a computer for downloads?