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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Keep repeating that Canada has one of the highest rates for communications for consumers in the world

Australia is comparable to us ... relatively small population with a large land mass ... and they have better and cheaper communications than us. If you want to argue that it's the landscape and environment ... the nordic countries are in the Arctic circle and they provide better and cheaper data services for their customers.

The biggest issue we have here is monopolies and when you give these companies full control ... they will never want to change the status quo and they will never do anything to help people or give better rates ... they will always balance how much to take from people by how much those people are willing to be fleeced ... so far we have been very compliant, which is why everything persists.

It's one thing to say you've been robbed ... it's another thing to just sit there and continue to be robbed.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Australia is comparable to us ... relatively small population with a large land mass ... and they have better and cheaper communications than us.

Dude, when I visited AFRICA, they had better and cheaper communication (mobile) than us. 😭

Privately controlled monopolies.

When the ISPs were crown corporations, we had the cheapest and highest quality internet on the planet at the time in the 1990s.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Australia is comparable to us ... and they have better and cheaper

That's the opposite of what the Aussies I know have told me.

They regularly complain about high prices and crap service.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Or it could be both together as the Nordic countries are very small compared to Canada.