Hey, I remember hearing about a couple of foreign cellphone companies entering into the Canadian market around Christmas or the new year..are they actually coming here or what?
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- Thread starter EntertainmentMan2000
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http://www.davewireless.com/
Dave is starting there marketing now and will be online soon. I forgot the other companies
Dave is starting there marketing now and will be online soon. I forgot the other companies
By law, only a Canadian controlled company can provide wireless service to Canadians. It's only fair, right? However, there is a foreign company that is trying to "bend" the rules.
By law, only a Canadian controlled company can provide wireless service to Canadians. It's only fair, right? However, there is a foreign company that is trying to "bend" the rules.
No, its not fair at all. By that logic, we shouldn't be able to buy any foreign-made product if there is a Canadian company that builds it. To Hell with that. That kind of thinking hurts us in the long run, both as consumers and as a national economy. I say....open the airwaves to any company that wants in. Prices will drop, service will increase, Canadians will be happy. Fuck the Canadian companies who are ROBBING us by using their oligarchy and unreasonable degrees of government influence to charge Canadians more for wireless service than almost any other nation on earth. Let me reiterate - fuck, them.
No, its not fair at all. By that logic, we shouldn't be able to buy any foreign-made product if there is a Canadian company that builds it. To Hell with that. That kind of thinking hurts us in the long run, both as consumers and as a national economy. I say....open the airwaves to any company that wants in. Prices will drop, service will increase, Canadians will be happy. Fuck the Canadian companies who are ROBBING us by using their oligarchy and unreasonable degrees of government influence to charge Canadians more for wireless service than almost any other nation on earth. Let me reiterate - fuck, them.
I agree with the Capitalguy for a change with one exception: there should be controls (trade agreements) with any country that wishes to import or operate in Canada. For eg: any company wishing to operate in Canada must have offices, service centres, etc here to support their infrastructure.
But yeah, C phone providers have been raping us blind for years....I spoke with a rogers franchise owner a couple of weeks ago and yeah, he's shitting bricks.........
I spoke with a rogers franchise owner a couple of weeks ago and yeah, he's shitting bricks.........
Does anybody have pre-authorized debit with Rogers? Was it hard to set up?
I say....open the airwaves to any company that wants in. Prices will drop, service will increase, Canadians will be happy.
In that case, we should allow Bell, Telus and/or Rogers to merge to compete with the foreigners.
Consumers Glass and DomGlass were allowed to merge to be able to compete with foreign competition.
Many foreign telecom companies are absolutely huge. In fact, some of them are government entities. Allowing Telus and Bell to merge will cut costs (and jobs).
Actually, I think the 4 Maritime provinces should also merge.
Then they promptly sold themselves to STONE PACKAGING of Chicago.
Don't think that glass ranks as important as telecommunications in the national interest so ok to be owned by foreigners. Maybe, a foreigner should have bought NORTEL. The government bailed out GM and Chrysler but not NORTEL.
Telecommunications is considered a national security issue, the worry is not one of competition or fairness, but that if push came to shove a foreign controlled telephone company would be a direct threat to our national security.
Consider the spying opportunities, for example.
Do we really want the government of China or India running our telephone system, or even just the United States? Even a "friendly" country like the US might engage in corporate or industrial espionage to advantage its industries over ours, say during a dispute over NAFTA.
Consider the spying opportunities, for example.
Do we really want the government of China or India running our telephone system, or even just the United States? Even a "friendly" country like the US might engage in corporate or industrial espionage to advantage its industries over ours, say during a dispute over NAFTA.
Telecommunications is considered a national security issue, the worry is not one of competition or fairness, but that if push came to shove a foreign controlled telephone company would be a direct threat to our national security.
Consider the spying opportunities, for example.
Do we really want the government of China or India running our telephone system, or even just the United States? Even a "friendly" country like the US might engage in corporate or industrial espionage to advantage its industries over ours, say during a dispute over NAFTA.
Well, we're not talking about controlling our telecommunications industry, just a few companies.....and if they were really concerned, they could just switch to a Canadian Carrier lol. I mean if Robbers, oops I mean Rogers is a provider, then Sprint, and Dave's wireless, they could just use Rogers.
If our inglorious leaders were that concerned with foreign companies operating here they would do something about the exorbitant rates we're being charged which would make it unattractive for foreign companies to expand here.
Further to the national security issue: really, do you think the RCMP and Military uses rogers for their cellphones? I doubt it.....(and if they do they're not that concerned about security if they're using a private company)
