Telus TV

StirCrazy

"also people don't realize that there is an quazi monopoly on celphones in canada, there are two major companice,, Telus and rodgers. they work hand in hand to set pricing and eliminate compatition. people are going to say what about bell, and the other little guys.. they are controled by either telus or rodgers.

this is why all the plans when you realy look at them end up costing about the same thing for the same services, one company might give you one thing a little cheeper but the other stuff costs more. untill they let the big NA cell companies into canada we will never have fair pricing or services. it is pretty sad when I can pay 60 bucks in the US and unlimited everything to any number accross NA. my cousins don't have home phones anymore they just use there cells. In Canada you can't do that as they have no all invclusive LD plan.. and even my fave 5 nation wide is only good in canada if I am in the US I am payign roaming charges and also air time and LD I calculated that if I used my phone like my cousins do it would cost me about 585.00/month to get the usage they pay 60 bucks for. its good being in Canada where our goverment lets companies screw us eh"

There are about 6 cell companies in Canada 3 of which piggy back on either Telus or Bell's networks. Rogers has thier own network which they have been working endlessly to upgrade I believe all of Alberta is finished now and They have started on BC.

Price setting is illegal in Canada and the companies can get hug fines for it, In there defence when one company changes their service the others have to follow suit to be competitive. so they undercut the other company. They have seen what this does to them in the 90' when they all brought in unlimited longdistance calling. they lost a tunn of money and now that Shaw is cutting into there phone profits they need to look to the futur insted of just reacting to te present. This is all theyare doing right now just reacting to what is happening with Shaw. Video phone is the way for the future and fiber to the home. Telus has tried many projects in Vancouver with no real seccess with fiber to the home. Ed Tel tried also and Telus after they bought EdTel. We are moving forward slowly one day we will get there, it is looking like things are getting closer.

Bill