davidsk

Is there any government petition site in Canada like the No. 10 one?

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/

We need to do something to change the monopoly system, like mobile phone network, the banking system, etc..

Souvy

Canada's banks and cellphone companies are monopolies?

davidsk

I feel they are.
Here is the CBC news in 2009.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/st...sive-oecd.html

2010 New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (OTI) report
Canada’s Cell Phone Rates: the Highest in the World
http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/iphone-...-in-the-world/

I didn't use a fancy phone (Sony Ericsson C903) in the UK. I paid £5 per month for a free phone but got 700 mins anytime any network, 300 text, 300 mins anytime same network, and only outgoing charge. Here is ridiculously expensive.

ATM charging for $3 from different banks is expensive as well!

Alan2005

Cartels is how I'd describe them.

davidsk

We need to voice ourselves to get the government do something about it.

Alan2005

Annoyingly it won't happen. Government works for them not us.

el_richo

So you want to complain to the government that you feel you're being charged too much for the service of your choice? And your argument is "it was cheaper in the UK therefore i expect the same in Canada"? If Canadians accept and pay the prices, it's these people you need to rally for boycotting the businesses in the same way the UK folk did when banks began charging customers to take money out via another banks ATM.

While you're at it, petition about ICBC. Now THEY'RE a monopoly

BTJ

Surely the cell phone costs are to be expected though considering the vast difference in population density between the UK and Canada.

Alan2005

This is the real problem. With telecomms, Canadians actually defend the high prices cos "it's a big country", and with banking it's "our banks are safe", even though ripping off customers has no relevance to that whatsoever.

Alan2005

People say this, but I think it's just the excuse they use to rip people off. Most of the population in Canada is in cities just and it's not like those people that live in remote areas get good coverage.

They charge what they can get away with and I'm certain they collude on pricing (like when all the cell phone companies said they were going to start charging for incoming texts on the same day a couple of years back)

BTJ

The incoming thing on texts and calls does seem mightily unfair, but I'm not sure if that is my UK upbringing or that it is genuinely unfair. I can understand for a friendly chat that it would be fair to share the costs, but a company phoning you, seems less fair then.

Souvy

A better word but hardly unique to Canada.

davidsk

We need to get the government attention to create a policy to stop the cartel. When enough people sign a petition, the government will put the issue into the next agenda.

Is there any consumer union to organize a rally?

davidsk

The guy in Roger's shop confessed the mobile phone market is very lucrative in Canada. Surely the main reason is not because of vast land or population.

el_richo

Silly buggers