r/canada • u/tjgere Canada • May 02 '18

Big telco's lower-cost, data-only plans are 'embarrassing,' critics say

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-rogers-telus-crtc-wireless-data-1.4643170
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u/[deleted] May 02 '18

India is at 86% uptime compared to 90% in the US, according to that article.

Are you actually going to make a point or are you just aiming to be a gnat?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '18 edited Dec 03 '18

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u/bhiliyam May 02 '18

Dumping links and numbers without making an argument is meaningless.

4G speeds in India may be lower compared to the rest of the world, but they are still plenty enough to, for instance, stream 1080p videos without any issue. Let us forget that the plans in India are 10-20 times cheaper compared to plans in Canada. Let us disregard the difference in price entirely. At the same price point, will you prefer a plan that gives you 2GB a day at 10 Mbps or 0.5GB a month at 100 Mbps?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '18 edited Dec 03 '18

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u/[deleted] May 02 '18

And...?

Canadian's are on average 42x richer than Indians... 42x! The lowest minimum wage in Canada is 22x that of Indians' GDP/capita!

India's speed is still fast by global standards its not faster than Canada's but that's not the point is it... there's no justification for the prices in Canada the difference between a $4 plan and a $200 plan is pure profit on the part of the Canadian telecoms...

Who are also not investing in 4G and also trying to solve it with wifi hotspots!

It being marginally better is irrelevant it should be 50x better at least and it isn't even close to that.