I guess healthy competition can really be good for consumers when it works as it is supposed to.
I might as well get a SIM shipped to me from Italy every three months or so, it'll be lots cheaper.
The CRTC does not limit access to the market, the elected government does. For national security purposes foreign ownership is restricted:
> As it stands now [in 2018], foreign ownership of a telecommunications company is limited to no more than 20 per cent of a company’s voting shares and no more than 33.3 per cent of the voting shares of a carrier’s holding company, and an effective total limit of 46.7 per cent (as long as the foreign entity doesn’t have control). On top of that, at least 80 per cent of the board members must be Canadian citizens.
* https://financialpost.com/telecom/tight-reins-leaves-our-tel...
See Telecommunications Act, Section 16. That dictates only domestic companies can really do much, which is the incumbents of Bell, Telus, Rogers, etc.
Reduce foreign operator restrictions and foreign operators may come into the market and provide more competition.
That and outright monopolies created by the government itself.
Which is why Bell Canada not peering at TorIX (and other Canadian IXPs) really annoys me. (Rogers, Telus, Cogeco, TekSavvy, etc, do.)
* https://www.cira.ca/improving-canadas-internet/initiatives/c...
Even major cloud hosting companies (AWS, Digital Ocean, OVH) have Canadian build-outs for folks that are sensitive to domestic/international issues, and yet if connect with Bell your traffic tends to go to Chicago and then back.
The result? There were some mocking offers in the form of double GB for the same price right after the meeting (ie instead of 10 euros/1 gb you'd get 10 euros/2 gb). After 1 year nothing more. The telecom operators think that we are in the 2000 where mobile internet is something that only company executives need...
I think the time has come for the government to stop asking nicely for cheap mobile internet and force the operators to align with the rest of Europe.
I have a 7GB plan despite using less than 1GB a month, because that's the next plan up after 1GB (and I like to have some wiggle room above 1GB)
Iliad is pretty great. Given that by law there are both a minimum number of players and incentives for the entry of a new players, Iliad managed to get pretty awesome pretty fast.
Also FYI it’s 4gb. I know because I just ran out of it.
I'm from the UK and pay £5 for unlimited data, which admittedly is better than most plans here.