Outage and Outrage in a Colluded Market

WERE THIS DEFINITION WRITTEN IN CANADA, we’d no doubt have to add, “and is most likely to prosper over time in a regulatory environment devoted to normalizing it.”

Of course, you know I’m referring to the troika of Rogers-Bell-Telus, which controls nearly 91% of the nation’s wireless market, with Canada consequently ranked as one of the least competitive wireless markets in the world, accompanied by the highest wireless fees. Helsinki-based telecom research firm Rewheel declared in 2021, after studying rates in 40 countries, that “prices in the Canadian wireless market…continue to be the highest or among the highest in the world.” Owning a phone, they claimed, is costlier too. These findings were echoed by Swedish telecom market analyst firm Tefficient, which found in the summer of 2021 that Canadian rates were indeed the highest amongst 45 countries. According to The Markup, a New York-based data journalism