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In response to "American and Canadian cellphone rates are the 2nd and 3rd most expensive amongst Western countries....(link)" by Walt_Disney

Something that MIGHT account for that: Canada and the US are extremely large, geographically. Building a network to service the entire country

Posted by TWuG Aug 11 '09, 08:09

isn't cheap and isn't easy.

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What they really need is some McDonald's execs to take over. -- nm - Loyola Aug 11, 08:27
For Canada, which has a population of 30 million, maybe. For the US, which has ten times that, not so much -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 08:11 5
- Hmmm... out of a combination of interest and boredom, I checked the OECD data, and the cost in Australia is about half that of the US - Roger More Aug 11, 08:16 1
  - I was going to draw this paralell too. australia's a particularly good comparison for canada. similar urban/rural split, similar concentration of - mafic Aug 11, 08:20
- Cell towers generally don't care if they are servicing Manhatten or Billings, Montana. The tower still needs to be there to offer service. - TWuG Aug 11, 08:15 2
  - Looking at the OECD data, I'm not sure that area, population size or density explain it -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 08:18 1
    - (and unfortunately, nothing in the report indicates the reason for price differentiation - it just presents data) -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 08:24

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