Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees

Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts... by Bayart on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:56PM (#24150674)

It's a regulation issue. Things were similar in my country until the state decided to sell the fourth frequency range licence at a reduced cost (to offset the lead of the other three) and made routing cheaper. In exchange the new provider had to commit infrastructure investments. At about the same time, it was legally mandated that transferring phone numbers between providers be simple and cheap. The prices cratered pretty much instantly.

I think I'm on a 15€/100GB plan at the moment (plus a bunch a stuff like 25GB a month of international roaming).

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Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts... by xrendan on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:02PM (#24150745)

There is a fourth carrier with Freedom Mobile but the population density makes it so hard for them to truly compete.

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Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts... by Bayart on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:15PM (#24150899)

It's an argument that comes back often when talking about telco and it does make sense on the surface, but as far as I'm aware most the Canadian population lives in a pretty narrow range of the country's territory. There needs to be some compensation going into the dense areas paying for the infrastructure of the near-empty ones to a degree, but I have a hard time believing it justifies that level of pricing.

Just look at the prices in Australia or Russia. There's no good technical reason Canada should just be massively more expensive than the rest.

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