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I don't know for you, but here in Canada companies like Bell, Telus, Cogeco and Videotron have very, very expensive services. Indeed telcos wouldn't be in busi

I don't know for you, but here in Canada companies like Bell, Telus, Cogeco and Videotron have very, very expensive services. Indeed telcos wouldn't be in business with lowered revenues if they keep their current business model. The thing is this model is based on deception and manipulation rather than creating great products that speaks for themselves. As for myself, I would much rather have a Telus booth that doesn't look like it's made of marble but rather sell cheap phones that just works. No salesmen with a sales quota trying to pressure me, no overpriced booth, no bullshit. Telcos only win because most people can't live without their services so they'll buy into them even knowing they get ripped off, keeping the whole thing alive.

randomdata 14y ago
I don't know for you, but here in Canada companies like Bell, Telus, Cogeco and Videotron have very, very expensive services. I don't know a whole lot about the big telcos, but I use a small customer-owned telco in Canada and while the prices are basically the same as the big players, the profits aren't extraordinary. In fact, just as the parent suggests, in their case, internet service is operated at a loss and is subsidized by the other services the telco provides. Perhaps the bigger operations can run their networks for less due to their larger scale and only gouge us because they can, or maybe it is just really expensive to operate telecommunication networks in Canada?
- jeremiep 14y ago
  The thing is, in Canada all small Telcos are using the networks of the big Telcos. In Quebec City for instance, there are only two internet providers: Videotron and Bell for cable and phone line internet respectively, all the small players are just resellers for their network. Of course their profit margins are small: the big Telcos still gets most of it. Their support, however, is often incredibly better than what any big Telco could ever hope to achieve.
  - randomdata 14y ago
    That is certainly true in some places, but the telco I speak of owns the last mile copper and are working on rolling out their own fibre to the customers. There are more telcos in Canada than you might think. Ontario alone has around 20 telephone companies that are not the big players and are not just resellers of the big players infrastructure.

randomdata 14y ago

I don't know for you, but here in Canada companies like Bell, Telus, Cogeco and Videotron have very, very expensive services. I don't know a whole lot about the big telcos, but I use a small customer-owned telco in Canada and while the prices are basically the same as the big players, the profits aren't extraordinary. In fact, just as the parent suggests, in their case, internet service is operated at a loss and is subsidized by the other services the telco provides. Perhaps the bigger operations can run their networks for less due to their larger scale and only gouge us because they can, or maybe it is just really expensive to operate telecommunication networks in Canada?

jeremiep 14y ago
The thing is, in Canada all small Telcos are using the networks of the big Telcos. In Quebec City for instance, there are only two internet providers: Videotron and Bell for cable and phone line internet respectively, all the small players are just resellers for their network. Of course their profit margins are small: the big Telcos still gets most of it. Their support, however, is often incredibly better than what any big Telco could ever hope to achieve.
- randomdata 14y ago
  That is certainly true in some places, but the telco I speak of owns the last mile copper and are working on rolling out their own fibre to the customers. There are more telcos in Canada than you might think. Ontario alone has around 20 telephone companies that are not the big players and are not just resellers of the big players infrastructure.