Because we have a huge ass geography and unfortunately, our telecom infrastructure is privately owned. So...
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Telcos have gouged us and provided shit service in all ways.
our telecom infrastructure is privately owned.
This is the crux of the matter.
You look at Norway, Sweden and Finland, and you will find geography on-par with BC’s west coast and then some. And yet, they have full wired Internet access and LTE data throughout the region.
So geography is not a viable excuse.
There is more unoccupied land adjacent to highways in Ontario alone than there is land in the entirely of any of those countries.
It's not the geography, it's the sparseness of population over a massive landmass.
We are a little bit bigger then those countries. With vast areas of nothing between cities. Just need a reason for them to build look at Alberta coverage map. Way more coverage then other provinces heard it was because of oil industry but not sure.
That's it.
They can't justify the cost of building a tower if it won't generate enough billable minutes to pay for itself before the hardware becomes obsolete.
Telus can't even get proper coverage for one of the biggest cities in the country in my experience
It's probably because of mountains. AGT isn't really good with non-flat land.
Nationalize the telecoms.
Our government should be putting resources into a government owned satellite consolation, but we wouldn't wanna step on the profits of the monopolies.
Our government should be putting resources into a government owned satellite consolation
they launch in 6 months.
Not government owned unfortunately just more of the same shit. Founders are just Telecom executives realizing the corpos are not moving fast enough to make the bookoo dollars.
It's fucking Canada and it's only in the last 20 years you even had a chance of getting a call through in the middle of nowhere. People managed to survive before cellphones, it's almost like using your head and being prepared for Canadian winter just went away when people could call for a rescue.
People also survived before cars and paved roads too... this is important infrastructure being under serviced by our oligopoly of telcos.
So things change and more people well survive because of it.