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Not really. Candians pack more tightly together. There is far more land per person, but 90% of the canadian population, those in cities, live in a smaller are
by sandworm101 4y ago
Not really. Candians pack more tightly together. There is far more land per person, but 90% of the canadian population, those in cities, live in a smaller area than the 90% us average. Canada is mostly dense cities separated by empty. By comparison, America is one rolling suburb from coast to coast.
Take british columbia, a vastly big place by US standards. Drop one 50-mile circle on vancouver and you have 75% of BC's population covered in one service area. If you draw a line from the ski hills north of vancouver, to alaska, you will cross only two roads. Everything to the north is empty by us standards.
- aidenn0 4y agoMy original comment was correct for mean density, but US clumps too. In addition, Cell phone networks need to cover the area people travel, so unless Canadians only travel in an area 11% that of those in the US, the point stands.
- Reason077 4y ago> "unless Canadians only travel in an area 11% that of those in the US" Honestly, that's probably not far off. Canada is enormous, but the vast majority of it is completely uninhabited or very, very sparsely populated.
- bawolff 4y agoI'd trade not having service in nunavut for a cheaper phone plan.
- dghlsakjg 4y agoGood news. You probably already have the former!
- dghlsakjg 4y agoIn all honesty, 11% sounds high for land area covered by cell service. There are large sections of the trans-canada highway that aren't covered (the only east west highway, and the main road across the country). I can't really count on having cell service on the highways between towns when I'm travelling in Canada so they aren't really providing much coverage there. Just to drive the point home here's a map of Rogers coverage. They don't have a single tower in the three provinces that make up the northern half of the country. Canada, despite being large is really a VERY centralized country. 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
- Reason077 4y agoExactly. And about 18 million people, half of Canada's entire population, live in the Quebec City - Windsor corridor, the narrow and densely populated strip which includes the cities of Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal.