Business Okanagan

Canadians pay the highest rates in North America for cable and satellite television signals and for cell phone service. All thanks to the fact that competition is stifled (smothered?) by the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

Rogers has just announced that they will be putting the screws to their hapless customers once again. This time they are cutting the size of Local Calling Areas – the geographic zone in which you can make calls without paying a Long Distance Charge – effective March 15. (Read more>>)

We need more competition in the mobile devices market and the key to that is to eliminate all the unnecessary red tape hurdles potential competitors have to clear with the CRTC before they can enter the market.