Specifically, Canada is totally getting the shaft when it comes to mobile phone costs. Check out those graphs. We’re worse than Rwanda, for crissake.
This is just another example of how Canadian politicians’ rhetoric about wanting to make Canadian industry competitive are all too often just empty rhetoric. See also: Canada’s continuing paucity of funding for scientific research, especially at the university level. It really annoys the shit out of me no end.
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Well, they appear to have responded to your outrage quickly.
Canada’s telecomms suck. New immigrant from the philippines here. And yes, the phone companies are overpriced and have no concept of customer service. I just got screwed for $600 for accidental phone internet. Damn Fido. Haha. Cheers dude. WE love this site.
See also: Canada’s continuing paucity of funding for scientific research, especially at the university level.
Oh, lord. I remember a few years back, when there was all the money being thrown at “research infrastructure,” and someone interviewed at the time said something to the effect of, “We need to remember to hire people to make use of the infrastructure.” Excuse me while I laugh to keep from crying. (Okay okay, so I was looking for more than a postdoc at subsistence wages; should I therefore be made the object of fun?) Meanwhile, there’s new places like Donnelly that exist primarily to provide yet more space and resources for superstars who already have established careers (Yes, Aled Edwards, you smug bastard, I’m looking at you).
Oh, the cell phone thing? Yeah, that looks bad, too.