IIC Canada 2013: Wireless prices in Canada not out of line with US, EU, says researcher

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA – While the perception that Canadians pay too much for too little for wireless persists (thanks to our own government’s overt efforts), data presented Tuesday at the IIC Conference in Ottawa suggests otherwise. In a luncheon presentation, Jeffrey Eisenach, managing director at Navigant Economics, acknowledged that Canadians do pay more for their mobile wireless services, but explained they pay more because they get more. Canadians enjoy a better quality service than their European counterparts because of broader LTE coverage here as compared to across the Atlantic, where Eisenach says regulatory meddling has stalled the deployment of next generation networks....