In Canada we have this thing called the CRTC. It's kind of like the FTC but much much worse. Basically, it's our communications commission but it's heavily staffed by ex oligopoly employees. Canada is in a tough situation where Rogers, Bell and Telus are the major 3 players and they effectively collude on prices. They've reached a happy state where they are more or less satisfied with their customer base or share of the pie in the respective markets (Telus in the West, Bell in the East and Rogers everywhere). What this has created is the highest ARPU in the world for mobile services. We also have one of the most unfriendly regulatory environments for third parties and foreign investors. There's only 3 provinces with a viable 4th telecom that's competing and you'll notice subscription rates are much much lower there (almost 50%). This being said, unless the crony run CRTC actually does something to allow MVNO's to be legally mandated (i.e. force the big three to sell their bandwidth) we'll never have the type of market the rest of the world enjoys. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way I can create a pseudo-mvno where it's basically a collective bargaining group that can actually negotiate real discounted rates for consumers...it's tough.

We might join forces and work together, ping me at albertollamaso at gmail.com