The dismantling of Canada's public infrastructure began in earnest during the 1990's, when our provincial phone companies were dismantled for profiteers who thought that they could deliver cheaper and better telecommunications services in a competitive, deregulated market. To this day, this page remains largely unconvinced, because I haven't seen anything that even vaguely resembles competition on the part of Canada's telcos.
Depending on what part of the country you live in, your home phone service comes from either a) Bell, or b) Telus. Even if you try ditching your home phone service and exclusively use your cell phone, 60% of the wireless market in Canada is split between these two, and the CRTC is reluctant to allow new players into the game.
If the slimy, customer-abusing, union-busting bastards at Telus have their way, you won't have any choice because Telus wants to buy Bell. Say what you want about the monopoly BC Tel used to have, but at least at one time that monopoly belonged to British Columbians, not to the whims of a market that could care less about consumers or workers.
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