The High Cost of Canadian Wireless

[Gary D]

Thinking of getting the IPhone in Canada?? Forget it until some more competition in the phone markets!

The National Post featured a revealing article on the weekend featuring comments from both RIM and Google about the high prices associated with Canadian wireless services, particularly the cost of the data. The numbers in the article point out that Canada is not even close to being competitive with countries around in the world on data prices, which hurts Blackberry sales and reduces the use of mobile services when compared to other countries....

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2087/125/

Original story: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/f...0110cb&k=87112

[Chewy]

with only 30 some million people and 75% living within 90 miles of the USA, I would think mobile communications almost impossible to implement

Oz would have a similar problem