Canadian cell phone prices some of world's highest, maybe

PARIS – Canadians pay some of the highest prices in the world for their cell phones, says a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). But do we really?According to OECD calculations, rates charged by Canadian mobile providers rank behind only the United States and Spain as the highest in the developed world, while Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden have the cheapest rates. But Canadian telecom consultant Mark Goldberg says that “the OECD service definitions should cause serious researchers to laugh”.The survey, called the OECD Communications Outlook, compared domestic prices across countries for low, medium and high-use...