Seeing as the big three telcos in Canada have banded together to fight Verizon from coming into the country and attempting to get the Canadian Government to change it’s policy on wireless competition, it’s no surprise to me that people on the opposite side would start to fight that. Two websites have appeared to counter the efforts of the big three. The first is realfairforcanada.ca which has this as their tagline:
“It’s time for ‘Robellus’ to grow up (Rogers, Bell, and Telus)”
The design of the site really looks like they stole it from fairforcanada.ca and if they did, it is likely not an accident. Also of note, there are direct links to email Prime Minister Stephen Harper to share your thoughts on the issue. Which from their perspective would be to get Verizon into the country as quickly as possible.
The second site is four4canada.ca which is clearly a reference to wanting a fourth player in the wireless market. It’s got this as a tagline:
We’ve all been ripped off by our “proudly Canadian” big 3 telcos. I want to share our stories with the world:
It encourages people to share their stories for posting on the site. The ones that I scrolled through don’t show the big three at their best.
The existence of these two sites suggest that the messages being put out by the big three that a fourth carrier named Verizon isn’t needed and that Canadians are not paying as much as they think they are aren’t resonating. If they ignore sites like these, they do so at their own peril.
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Opponents Of The Big Three Launch Their Own Protest Websites
Seeing as the big three telcos in Canada have banded together to fight Verizon from coming into the country and attempting to get the Canadian Government to change it’s policy on wireless competition, it’s no surprise to me that people on the opposite side would start to fight that. Two websites have appeared to counter the efforts of the big three. The first is realfairforcanada.ca which has this as their tagline:
“It’s time for ‘Robellus’ to grow up (Rogers, Bell, and Telus)”
The design of the site really looks like they stole it from fairforcanada.ca and if they did, it is likely not an accident. Also of note, there are direct links to email Prime Minister Stephen Harper to share your thoughts on the issue. Which from their perspective would be to get Verizon into the country as quickly as possible.
The second site is four4canada.ca which is clearly a reference to wanting a fourth player in the wireless market. It’s got this as a tagline:
We’ve all been ripped off by our “proudly Canadian” big 3 telcos. I want to share our stories with the world:
It encourages people to share their stories for posting on the site. The ones that I scrolled through don’t show the big three at their best.
The existence of these two sites suggest that the messages being put out by the big three that a fourth carrier named Verizon isn’t needed and that Canadians are not paying as much as they think they are aren’t resonating. If they ignore sites like these, they do so at their own peril.
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