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Let's just keep pretending the government is actually serious about doing something about it, and that this isn't just window dressing from a government and a bureaucracy that's made up of folks with non-arms length ties to Robellus.

If the government was at all serious about consumer protections, they would have, you know, put some actual ones in place. This goes for all parties too, as they are all just as guilty for this as the next.

I used to travel to Canada for work twice a year. One time my phone roaming didn't work so I decided to get a prepaid SIM card just for the two weeks I would be there.

That's when I learned the hard way that Canada has the highest mobile rated in the Americas

Also, I think now is a good time to mention that later this year we will start entering that pre-electoral bullshit phase. "Things need to change" from the current elected government kind of bullshit. I feel like this is the very beginning of this phase sadly

"Everything we've done (bugger all) hasn't worked, so we'll allow these companies to merge and reduce competition further with 'enforceable' conditions attached that everyone recognizes won't do a thing." Have they thought of nationalization? Competition with a crown company? A giant surtax on their ludicrous profits? Heavy regulation? A license/board scheme where their plans and prices need approval before making offers?

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About time his slow ass realized we are getting fucked...

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Canadians are still paying too much for telecom services, the industry minister said Thursday, one day after Rogers Communications said it was raising the cost of some of its wireless phone plans.

"Let's be clear, while some progress has been made to lower prices, Canadians still pay too much and see too little competition," Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement to CBC News.

Nearly two dozen "enforceable" conditions were attached to Rogers's merger with Shaw Communications, including reducing costs for customers, when Champagne announced the deal's approval in 2023.

The hikes can be viewed as a sort of "disciplinary intervention," said Vass Bednar, executive director of the Master of Public Policy program at McMaster University in Hamilton.

She told CBC News the telecom companies may want to push customers "that have chosen to have more freedom with their contracts" to lock into a plan in order to avoid the price increase.

The three major wireless providers — Rogers, Bell and Telus — own and operate the physical infrastructure and rent it out to smaller companies that may offer cheaper options.

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A vending machine sim card from the airport in London UK is cheaper than the vast majority of cell phone plans here is Canada