Cable / Telecom News

Wireless prices higher in Canada than most other countries studied in new CRTC report

OTTAWA — Not that this will come as too much of a surprise for Canadian wireless subscribers, but a new study commissioned by the CRTC and prepared by Nordicity Group, has found mobile phone and wireless Internet prices tend to be higher in Canada than in the other seven countries studied in the report. Canada also ranks more expensive generally speaking in the category of bundled services pricing.On the upside, fixed telephony prices in Canada are among the least expensive when compared to the other countries. In the fixed broadband Internet category, Canadians tend to pay prices that are somewhere...