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> I've been in had faster internet than the city I grew up in in Canada, and for about $10/mo. > Sure, internet goes down perhaps once or twice a month for ha
by 908B64B197 5y ago
> I've been in had faster internet than the city I grew up in in Canada, and for about $10/mo.
> Sure, internet goes down perhaps once or twice a month for half a day or so, but it often does in rural-adjacent parts of Canada too
With 90% of the population less than 100 miles from the US border, what's their excuse for being worse than Albania?
- bee_rider 5y agoEven that relatively dense 100 miles has pretty low population density by European standards I think. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/canadian-provinces-and-territories-by-population-density.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/canadian-provinces-and-t... Even if we assume their entire population is in that 100 mile range, it is 42 people/kmsq [37.7M/(8891*100)], which is like half that of Albania. Of course the true answer is that it is our bad influence is seeping up across the boarder. Have you heard of Comcast?
- post-it 5y agoA government-supported private telecommunications cartel. Also, in Nova Scotia, a government-supported private electricity monopoly.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> A government-supported private telecommunications cartel What's the point? Why not simply have a fair market with competition? > Also, in Nova Scotia, a government-supported private electricity monopoly. I think Quebec has the same no? That's actually one instance where I was told the government was doing a good job. My colleague told me he pays something like 0.05$ per Kw/h. That's insanely cheap. I assume Nova Scotia does the same.