I suppose this is Rogers' plan to make their service not miserably terrible in remote areas? There are other companies such as Telus that have great coverage i

I suppose this is Rogers' plan to make their service not miserably terrible in remote areas? There are other companies such as Telus that have great coverage in rural areas, presumably because they're the ancestor of state owned BC Tel and have access to that great infrastructure. So Rogers was faced with either having to duplicate the infrastructure that Telus already had, or do some innovative deal like this to bypass having to do that. It all suggests that this is being done the wrong way, with great waste and cost, that all this infrastructure is a basic utility that should be done once by a state owned monopoly that is available for all to use, and several individual mobile phone companies can use it and pay for its upkeep.