The lady on the call kept pushing me for the higher priced plan. So I turned my haggling mode on. She finally caved in when I just kept repeating my budget which was exactly the amount of the lower priced plan. It was pretty annoying. This was of course in Ontario though.
So, in a way I do understand their reasoning behind it. There are only 37M people in Canada and even if a telco had 100% market share to increase revenue, they would have to sell everyone a higher priced plan. Now for sure they can't have 100% market share and investing in infrastructure like 5G costs money. So, they can't possibly be spending that kind of money when user base is so small.
Very similar to UK. The demographics is older folks so businesses try to accommodate them. I designed a Kiosk for a major UK bank. One guideline was, make on-screen buttons large enough so that a 65 year old brit can press them... I asked my boss's father to try it out on his ipad.
Hmm... weird! My wife's commission was not based on how much value of plan she sold. May be different companies have different policies.
LOL! The irony of name!
And Shaw just got acquired by Rogers so now we have come full circle.
Yeah the issue is not number of players. India has shown that in the end only 3-4 big players remain in market. India had a lot of telecom providers but left with only 3. But India has the advantage of the vast user base. The price may still go up in future but nowhere close to what we have in Canada.
My god. What a bad luck for all these rounds. I was 496 one day before their Oct draw then reduced to 491 due to age. This round only 2 points were dropped. Well, I guess the cut off will jump back up again very soon.
