• Alphane MoonOP
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      217 days ago

      Of course not.

      I remember when I first moved to the US and saw the broadband and cell phone prices. Corruption american style.

        • Alphane MoonOP
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          36 days ago

          I’ve lived in Canada too. I was surprised to find the situation with broadband/cell phone services to be even less competitive (and more pricey) than in the US.

        • downhomechunk
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          15 days ago

          Did you forget to convert back to USD and the number is just higher?

          • @BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
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            15 days ago

            No I did everything in USD. It was a few years back so things might’ve changed but while I was still on Reddit I discussed it with some others and at least based on what they were saying, Canadian internet and phone prices were considerably higher than American. It doesn’t help that there’s a duopoly here.

    • @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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      -97 days ago

      Yeah, probably not. If your country is the size of a postage stamp, it doesn’t take a whole lot of capital investment to run fiber through the entire thing. Whereas if your country is the size of the United States, it takes a fuck ton of capital investment to cover even a decent portion of it by laying lines like that.

      • @Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        267 days ago

        My country is as big as the US and we can get 500 Mbs fibre for $23, less than half what AT&T charges.

        Is not the size of the country that make fibre costs to be so high in US, it’s unchecked, exploitative capitalism allowed by a corrupt plutocratic government.

      • Alphane MoonOP
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        37 days ago

        Less to do with absolute size and more to do with urban density and population concentration.