It's easy when you only need one cell tower.
Hong Kong cell phone plan. Unlimited data. $10 a month. (Canadians just sharted.)
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And the data is censored.
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Went to Eastern Europe over the summer, bought a local sim card there 10GB for $3 (30 days) Canadian users are getting cheated
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Canada has so much open space. I drove 3 hours yesterday between 2 cities (just wilderness) and I didn't lose reception. That's why our prices are high.
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That's what they tell us but I strongly believe the big players are colluding. When the high speed internet was introduced years ago Bell and Rogers kept the same prices for years
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It's basically due to how spread out the population is, meaning far more investment and infrastructure to serve the same amount of people as in say a major city. I also agree energy companies monopolize too though, so it's both imo.
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Includes 24/7 surveillance by the gvt
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And Western phone companies don't?
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May have something to do with the cost of covering a city vs the second largest country on the planet.
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Both cell plans and Internet broadband service is much much cheaper in Northern Europe compared to Northern America, since the governments has invested heavily in it since the 90s. For instance, 10Gbit/s unlimited internet for $30/month in Sweden.
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Correction: Unlimited monitoring.
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Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines. All the same. Cheap. Canadians get the shaft big time.
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People in the USA get the shaft lmao for a plan like that would be like 60$
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$60 for an unlimited plan, sure, but our data speeds are throttled after 10gb.
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And the government reads your emails.
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They do that everywhere.
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Yes, urban infrastructure (including telecom) is much cheaper per person served than suburban or rural infrastructure and Hong Kong is a city. They’re probably also using cheap Huawei equipment possibly ripped off from western competitors.
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Population density is a big factor but lack of compition and heavy regulations (protections) are also a big factor so they are free to soak the customers. BTW, there is lots of huawei equipment on Canadian cell networks. Especially telus and bell.
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