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| quote: | Originally posted by malek
come on dudes you can't compare Japan and Canada... Japan's land mass is about one third of Ontario's.... it cost much less to deploy wireless networks in a country of that size than in a huge country like Canada. And don't tell me that none of the networks cover all of Canada, of course, but look at the coverage maps by each company, its way bigger than japan...
for fuck's sake, even Syria has a 3G network, and its a developping country (if not 3rd world), but its tiny. |
they could deploy the networks in the major metropolitan areas first, then spread them out as the cost comes down..
...in fact, they've been doing that to an extent, but just not fast enough.
four possible reasons:
1. our land lines are very good, so there's no pressing need (in contrast to Syria)
2. Canada is poorer than other OECD nations (in contrast to Japan and the U.S., which are far richer than Canada on an absolute basis and per capita)
3. the big players are to some extent protected from market forces by the Lieberals, so they don't feel rushed to make large capital investments
4. smaller population = smaller possible subscription base to which capex can be spread out
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Last edited by ShadoWolf on Jan-28-2005 at 05:20
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