It’s not just share prices. Telecom competition in France is next level.
I’m on holiday in France. SIM card was mailed to me for free. Activated an unlimited call/SMS and 4gb data for 10 EUR, or about US$12, and that includes their sales taxes.
And this isn’t the oft-mentioned Free, just a random MVNO that mainly targets immigrants.
(Ok, it actually cost me 15 EUR because bloody iMessage sent a short code SMS to send tell Apple HQ what my new number is and ate some credit before I could sign up for the plan)
Ugh, I wish Canada had anywhere near these prices. It's about $40+ for 4GB of data and unlimited text but that's with a more limited coverage area. For national carriers it's $10-$15 more per month.
I'm on it, giffgaff, won't go back to contracts now. It's 3gb data on the £10 one, although I never use it as all the updates and downloads happen on wifi. I used to sometimes get near the limit when I would use it to stream music on google play. I was on the £12 (4gb) for a while, it's really easy to switch whenever you want.
It's much cheaper to buy a phone outright and get a giffgaff sim. I was buying Nexuses, but the pixel seemed a ripoff so I haven't upgraded yet. And to be honest I'm not really seeing poor performance yet on the Nexus 5x. I had been thinking about a oneplus, but I see they've released a cheaper pixel now.
2. It's not an amorphous corporation that does wrong, it's particular people.
This should happen more often.