Opinion: Ottawa needs to legislate cuts to Canada’s sky-high telecom rates. Canadians have among the highest cellphone rates in the world. As it has done in other industries, Ottawa needs to impose enforceable laws to bring the price-gouging to an end.
If Ottawa was truly intent on reducing Canadian telecom rates — among the highest in the world — it would impose lower rates on the entire telecom sector.will provide lower rates for at least some Canadians.Ottawa has not sought rate reductions from the entire industry, including all the Big Three providers, Rogers, the Bell subsidiary of BCE Inc., and Telus Corp.Canadians pay an average of $8.03 per GB of mobile data. Americans pay just $5.62. In Britain, Australia, and France the rates are $1.
Champagne last week congratulated himself on creating Ottawa’s long-sought fourth national wireless provider. It will consist of the merger of Freedom with Quebecor’s Videotron wireless and cable division. But, as Champagne acknowledged, he can’t act on those threats without seeking additional powers from Parliament.
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