Warum Kanada die öffentliche Telekommunikation neu aufbauen sollte
Warum Kanada die öffentliche Telekommunikation neu aufbauen sollte
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Let’s do it.
We won’t get real competition in the marketplace without a strong public contender.
Look at the markets where there is a public option (TBayTel and SakTel)…. why are consumers consistently paying less in those markets?
Let’s repeat that across Canada.
The article fails to mention how badly MTS and AGT bungled things in their respective provinces. Them being sold off was their lifeline, a *rescue*. MTS was so far behind in their infrastructure upgrades, Internet adoption would have been hampered had they not been sold.
Market forces have made the private sector suppliers neither efficient or beneficial to the country. They have exploited the public and need to lose protections.
We should also take back the public money we’ve given to wildly profitable companies to not do anything. The federal government subsidized Bell to put in fibre in my rural area, which they did, but they never hooked it up to anything and it’s still sitting there five years later, and now the provincial government is paying Rogers to do the same thing again.
Why is the leftist solution to every economic problem always public sector monopolies?
I’m sure turning our economy from a capitalist welfare state to a Soviet style command economy will be great for our long term economic prosperity./s
Cell phone plans in the US & UK are much cheaper than Canada because of private sector free market competition.
I’m not opposed just as long as it’s not seen as a replacement for comprehensive liberalization of the telecom sector since inarguably market oriented competition and market liberalization are the biggest drives to lowering consumer prices for telecoms etc. While SaskTel is more affordable than the Canadian average it’s still less affordable than both the U.S average and EU averages etc. (The EU especially spent decades comprehensibly liberalizing it’s telecom sector and also privatized it’s government telecom industries in most countries etc.)
Building a public telco would be a disaster.
Everyone points to SaskTel but everyone forgets MTS, AGT or ONtel. People forget about how many utilities in Ontario tried and failed to be CLECs or launched Wi-Fi networks (Toronto Hydro did both).
The problem is that you’d just get Ontario/ Quebec Hydro but with a different product.
Keep in mind that the market for Internet services has been deregulated for 35-40 years at this point. There’s lots of opportunities for competition. The only thing holding anyone back is that telecom is an industry that has massive economies of scale. Until you’re huge, you’re not profitable.
The oligopolies aren’t great, but you’re still seeing new products and technologies launching. Pricing is dropping too.
Do people really think that a government department would be rolling out new capabilities? Or would you get same, old same old?