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Sure. Let’s just pretend collusion and price gouging hadn’t been going on for over 20 years, while the big 3 including Telus assimilated all independently owned
by transcriptase 1y ago
Sure. Let’s just pretend collusion and price gouging hadn’t been going on for over 20 years, while the big 3 including Telus assimilated all independently owned competitors and until about 2020 maintained the most absurdly expensive and profitable mobile plans on earth while claiming it was due to infrastructure costs which were actually being subsidized by taxpayers. Oh and while the regulatory body that was supposed to keep them in check, staffed nearly exclusively by former Telus, Rogers, and Bell higher-ups, rubber stamped acquisitions and actively prevented foreign competitors from threatening the gravy train in conjunction with propaganda campaigns from incumbents.
Get fucking real. Which one did you work for?
- com2kid 1y agoCell companies suck, yes. And a decade ago they sucked more, and 2 decades ago it was really fucked. But they got commoditized. They are a utility provider now, they can't charge an arm and a leg for tethering or photos in messages. Their profit margins are garbage and they have to spend a shit ton of money to deploy new tech to maintain those shit margins. The writing has been on the wall for decades that this was coming，which is why they acted like such dicks to try and keep it from happening.
- conorcleary 1y agoI bet they could get way more than 4% profit margin if things actually were lean in their supply chain. Any publicly-traded company has hangers-on all the way up and down - buddies overcharging services rendered but put through the ringer a dozen times creating lots of jobs (then shrinking it directly into profit via some other vendor's AI scam). Something like Mint comes along or Koodo that can actually charge less (Teksavvy) then they get bullied, lobbied against, or straight up bought to be shut down or enshitificated