Telus wants the CRTC to scrap Canada's $100 data roaming cap, arguing the consumer protection is no longer necessary as more Canadians switch to travel plans with predictable roaming charges. While the carrier submitted its intervention to the CRTC back in mid-August, a closer look at the filing by iPhone in Canada reveals more about
Roaming should not be a thing while you are in Canada, does not matter who your provider is they all share infastructure somewhere in the series of tubes. Internationally I can understand why roaming is a thing but still the cap should be lower.
Very little of that infrastructure is shared. Even less now that the agreement between Rogers and BellMTS is being unwound.
Rogers, Bell, and Telus each have their own separate switching, RF network, transport and core networks. They do interconnect (otherwise you couldn’t call a customer on the other network), but that is a very “thin” connection at the edge of the networks.
Sometimes they rent space for their antennas on someone else’s tower, or rent fiberoptic transport but that is not really “sharing” any more than your landlord is “sharing” with you.
Source: happily retired from network operations/maintenance in one of the “big 3” phone companies.
Except in Saskatchewan where only Rogers has built their own towers. Bell and Telus lease SaskTel’s infrastructure. Source: I work at SaskTel.
Yeah, Saskatchewan is kinda unique in the country.