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Article #9003Re: Why does Canadian internet access suck so much?
From: Kent T.
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:48
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:48
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g wrote > > On 04/02/2011 02:50, zeez wrote: > > On Feb 1, 3:03 pm, Lil Abner<@Daisey.Mae> wrote: > >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1352559/Canadians-forc... > > > > I've always wondered why Canadians have it about as bad as Austraiia > > when it comes to net access. Australia is phy$icaly isolated so it > > somewhat understandable for them but Canada? > > Collusion, a few big companies control the market... Bell, Rogers, > Telus, Shaw They funded the infrastructure, not like so many other countries where the taxpayer did. At one time it was 1 phone company per region and one cable provider. That's capitalism for you. In most European countries the government subsidized the infrastructure. In the US it's the economy of scale, so it invited more competition, which is what you expect in a country with that large a population. Infrastructure isn't cheap when it comes to setting up wireless and internet.
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