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Why is mobile data in Canada so expensive?
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Even the EU is a lot better. Hardware and staff costs are higher here, but there's no reason for it to be the highest in the world.
It's an oligopoly with laws that prevent any new competition or effective change
EU is better for a particular reason tho, we can all thank Xavier Niel, (ex ?) CEO of Free. It's a provider that emerged after the others, and started slashing the prices for internet at home, and then mobile.
The slashing was so big and the others providers lost so much, they had to align even tho at first they were providing a much better service. (Although Free also had a very good customer service at first)
This kind of thing barely happen anymore nowadays, if at all, Terminal capitalism and all that