@TroyDaBes Bell and Rogers announced price increases on Monday. Telus/Koodo only announced on Friday. From what I've read, the 3 tend to historically match each other's price increases within a short timeframe. Where there are only a few players in capital-intensive industries, I've seen such closely-mirrored price increases happen in several other countries (Europe/Asia) as well. So I'm confident they are not brought about as a result of collusion - though it's obvious to me that in this case, these latest mobility service price increases are not justifiable based on an increase in any operating or maintenance costs.
This, to me, illustrates why customers need to have other options. I've hardly kept it a secret that I have a severe distaste for PM's mercurial billing/activation systems and their completely desultory customer service processes (or lack thereof). And I say this with the highest regard for each of the hardworking PM employees that I've had the pleasure of interacting with - it's very clear to me that they are not the ones to fault. Despite this bitter aftertaste, I'm very happy to be a PM customer, and try to do my best to advocate for/promote it whenever given the chance - whether by handing out free SIMs locally, or by participating in discussions on this community.
In my view, companies that run on alternate business models (such as PM) are the saving grace of an industry that is generally infamous in this country for its lack of innovation and competition. And to me, this applies even if these smaller companies that run on alternate business models are owned at the end of the day by Big Telecom.
