Canada's population is highly urbanized and concentrated in cities near our southern border. More urbanized than Switzerland (GP comment). Not an explanation for our uncompetitive mobile and broadband data markets.

Canada urban population: 81.8% of total population (2015)

Switzerland urban population: 73.9% of total population (2015)

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[0] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

This a common argument I encounter, and it is a bit of a straw man.

The offerings in densely populated areas are not better.