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Canadian Telecoms Make The Most Money on Data Usage In The World: Tefficient (huffingtonpost.ca)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Canadian wireless users have some of the lowest data usage in the world, but Canadian telecom companies make the most money off the customers they have, a new report shows. A study by telecom comparison site Tefficient looked at data usage per SIM card in 36 countries worldwide in 2017, and how much money telecoms made per gigabyte of wireless data used. Canadians used about 1.3 GB of data per month per SIM card last year. There were only five countries where wireless customers used less than that -- the Czech Republic, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, and Greece. By contrast, Indian telecoms had the lowest revenue per gigabyte, and showed the highest growth in data usage in 2017 -- more than 300 percent.
As A Canadian myself, this is not news. The price for cell phones are about the highest in the world and the big 4 are making sure there is little competition...
The headline summary conveniently omits "per GB". The source actual article also used the headline "makes money", which implies profit, instead of "charges money" which is simply a price. The actual headline should be: "Canadian Telecoms CHARGE The Most Money PER GB on Data Usage In The World: Tefficient" The more they charge, the less people will use. The source already mentions that Canadians use very little.data, probably due to cost. There is no mention of how much money they actually make (they could charge $1000 per GB, doesn't mean they'd be making more money).