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Re:Bell Canada to charge 15 cents per Twitter SMS even with ... by potatolicious on Thursday February 26, 2009 @02:36PM (#496284)
As a Canadian this comes as no surprise to be. Bell and Rogers (basically the only two telecoms in Canada) have always pulled shenanigans like this against their customers. Canadian cell phone plan rates are ridiculous, and data even more so. When I lived in the US I had a ton of minutes and unlimited data for $50 a month. In Canada I pay this just for a handful of voice minutes.

And this is one of the major reasons why the tech field is constantly failing in this country. Our government (both parties that matter, anyway) have no interest in encouraging fair telecommunication prices to drive innovation.

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Re:Bell Canada to charge 15 cents per Twitter SMS even with ... by cperciva on Thursday February 26, 2009 @03:14PM (#496328)
Our government (both parties that matter, anyway) have no interest in encouraging fair telecommunication prices to drive innovation.

Well, the high wireless data rates were one of the stated reasons for last year's spectrum auction -- I don't think any of the companies which bought spectrum last year have started operating yet, but I'd guess that rates will come down once they're up and running.

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Re:Bell Canada to charge 15 cents per Twitter SMS even with ... by wmoxam on Thursday February 26, 2009 @06:08PM (#496578)
That could be a long ways off with the expense of building a network and the difficulty in raising capital these days ...
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Re:Bell Canada to charge 15 cents per Twitter SMS even with ... by comatose_kid on Friday February 27, 2009 @01:02PM (#497445)
Here are details about one company, but no mention on rollout dates:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM...

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