Canadian Cellphone Bills Are Some of the Highest In the World, Says Report (straight.com)

Freshly Exhumed shares a report from Straight: A report released this week by the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) confirms that Canada ranks among the top three most costly countries for mobile wireless plans. Comparing the U.K, Italy, France, Australia, Japan, and the U.S. on six tiers of pricing -- which looked at talk-time, texts, and data -- the document shows that Canada has the most expensive mid-range and higher-tier plans in the world. "It is unacceptable that Canadians continue to pay ever-rising prices year after year for something as critical as mobile communications services," said Katy Anderson, Digital Rights Advocate at OpenMedia.

Comments

Its because net neutrality

[Anonymous Coward]

I am Canadian and it is real fact that Canada has stong pro-net-neutrality laws which are prime cause of expensive bills. If we were smart to kick out libtards we could end net nutrality and the deregulation is guaranteed to lower prices.

Re:$ or it didn't happen

[tripleevenfall]

I'm confused. What is Bell Rogers going to Telus?

As a Canadian

[nightfire-unique]

.. I'd like to post a rant, but can't afford the data.

Re: No service here so it's cheap.

[TimMD909]

Watched a good documentary on rural Canadian life called "Letterkenny" the other day...