http://www.freyburg.com/canadas-wireless-industry-finally-nudges-towards-competition.html Freyburg\'s take on media, politics and nerdery. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:43:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.freyburg.com/canadas-wireless-industry-finally-nudges-towards-competition.html#comment-109 Cam Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:40:25 +0000 http://www.freyburg.com/canadas-wireless-industry-finally-nudges-towards-competition.html#comment-109 MTS is a huge player in other areas like VoIP (they lease to companies like Primus TalkBroadband and Vonage in Canada) so I'm sure they'll be able to scramble the resources to create some competition. It would be cool to see them doing what Fido did with the "City Fido" plan before Rogers defensively bought them out... maybe this time the CRTC and Industry Canada will keep the big three from pushing around the little guy. It's in the best interests of the country; if we don't develop our mobile networks we'll fall far behind other markets. (which would be pretty ironic considering that Canada's Nortel is one of the companies that built the backend for the wireless industry in the US...) MTS is a huge player in other areas like VoIP (they lease to companies like Primus TalkBroadband and Vonage in Canada) so I’m sure they’ll be able to scramble the resources to create some competition. It would be cool to see them doing what Fido did with the “City Fido” plan before Rogers defensively bought them out… maybe this time the CRTC and Industry Canada will keep the big three from pushing around the little guy. It’s in the best interests of the country; if we don’t develop our mobile networks we’ll fall far behind other markets. (which would be pretty ironic considering that Canada’s Nortel is one of the companies that built the backend for the wireless industry in the US…)

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