RIM COO notes lack of competition in Canada mobile data
I recently came across this article from July in the Financial Post stating that RIM “… blasted Canadian cellphone companies … for their high data rates and for not competing against each other strongly enough.”
This has been a problem in Canada for more then 5 years, and I’m glad to hear that people are starting to make some noise about it.
High-tech companies can’t and won’t develop innovative mobile services in Canada until the current wireless cartel is broken up.
- Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access
- Canada Mobile Providers Profit up 27% to $5.6 billion
- Canada wireless monopoly equals insane mobile data rates
January 13th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
A couple of months later, Jim Balsillie led a love-fest for Canadian carriers, talking about how BlackBerry adoption per capita was higher in Canada than anywhere else in the world. “We are fortunate to be located in a country with a thriving wireless industry that continues to offer businesspeople and consumers world-class wireless data services,” was another of his comments. It doesn’t sound like RIM plans to be on the front lines fighting for changes to Canadian wireless industry data rates.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
How unfortunate. Looks like even he had to back down to the power of the Canadian telco cartel