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pbnjoe writes:
"CBC has a report on apparent price fixing by the country's top carriers.
Canada's big three wireless carriers have hiked the base prices for new plans by $5 in most markets over the past two months.
Rogers, Telus, and Bell Mobility now all charge $80 per month for new smartphone plans with a new contract, $5 more than what many of those same plans cost when they were introduced last year. The prices for other smartphone plans with more data cost upwards of $145.
The price hikes affect every province except Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
This exclusion appears to be due to the strong local competition from MTS and SaskTel, respectively; equivalent plans there are $55 cheaper than elsewhere in the country.
The $80 a month plan includes 500 MB of data, unlimited nationwide calling, unlimited messaging, voicemail and call display.
Existing plans are unaffected.
For more, here's Ars Technica's coverage of the story."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bucc5062 on Monday March 24 2014, @10:16AM
You have to admire the chutzpah of major carriers these days. "No, really FCC, merging us will bring about more competition, not less" though they leave out it is just competition upwards, not down.
I wonder if Canada has any anti-trust laws or equivalent RICO laws people could bring to play. Something else that this one time Canada's businesses smell worse then our own.
The more things change, the more they look the same