Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts...
by shadowgovt on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:55PM
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That sounds like the kind of thing that doesn't begin to change until and unless someone either starts putting up their own towers or VoIP becomes ubiquitous enough to be a real threat to the cell business model.
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Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts...
by ss3000 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:59PM
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This has been attempted before. Wind Mobile (now Freedom Mobile) was an upstart carrier that attempted to compete. They ended up just getting acquired though.
Their Wikipedia article paints a pretty bleak and accurate picture of the "competitive" landscape:
> Freedom Mobile Inc. is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider owned by Shaw Communications. With 1,767,155 active subscribers (as of the end of February 29, 2020) in urban areas of Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, it is Canada's fourth largest mobile network operator with 5% market share.[3]
> Founded in 2008 as Wind Mobile by the telecommunications company Globalive, Freedom was one of several new mobile carriers launched in Canada in 2008 after a government initiative to encourage competition in the wireless sector alongside Mobilicity (later acquired by Rogers Communications) and Public Mobile (later acquired by Telus).
Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts...
by touisteur on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:09PM
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Free did this in France for mobile. It really drastically squashed prices for some time. Then everyone went down to match Free's prices somehow and we're now at a new equilibrium...