I as speaking with some pople the other day about the mass amount of choices we have as canadians for cell phone service, and it astounds me that people beleave this to be true. I mean sure, every other commercial on the radio is a cell phone company trying to push its own cell phone plan, but the reality is the chouices are not so plentiful.
Every one knows of the big three Bell, Rogers and Telus. Three completly differnt companies right? Wrong. Telus and Bell have agreaments signed to share their tower space. This means that they are dependent on each other because Teluses infrustructure is much stronger out west, and bells in central/eastern canada. What does this mean? It means you wont find GREAT deals on those carriers, at least not long term ones!
So now we are down to two, Bell/Telus and Rogers. But wait you say? There is Fido, Koodo and Solo? Try Rogers, Telus and Bell under a differnt name. Thats right, each company started (or bought out) another company that looks and feels like a seperate company but in the end are the same guys! Sure they have a differnt call center, and target a differnt audiance, but in the end it goes into the same pocket… but hey we have viriaty right?
The only true pioneers in this field are companies like Mobilicty and Wind Mobile. They set up their own towers and if you ever compair their prices, they are out of this world…… But their network is small and thye have unlinited “HOME ZONES” because they have to pay the Big Three for coverage outside them.
So in the end Canadians have lots of choices for the same type of cell service and approximatly the same prices!
PS: Ejoy the contracts!
