We all know that Public Mobile is a Telus subsidiary/brand which uses the Telus network.
Telus proudly advertises itself as the "Fastest network in Canada".
A claim which seems to be supported by a few independent testing/review sites (like this one). Telus often advertises all sorts of national, provincial, and local projects which brag about all the millions of dollars they're dumping into installing/upgrading their network hardwares.
Telus proudly advertises itself as the "Largest network in Canada".
A claim which seems to be a little dubious if not completely false. Sure, the Telus coverage map looks impressive, but the cell towers map shows a different story, a story which describes Telus as having the dominant presence in a few provinces but being a solid Third Place across Canada overall. It seems very gimmicky for Telus to market itself as the "largest" network because Telus-owned communications hardware can communicate with not-Telus-owned communication hardware, under that logic every Canadian wireless operator could make exactly the same claim because their communications all use exactly the same "largest" network-of-networks across Canada.
And Telus decisively takes Third Place among the Big Three in terms of raw subscriber numbers (according to this Wikipedia article, which cites CWTA/CRTC statistics). Telus does almost secure First Place in terms of highest ARPU, but from the customer's perspective this ain't such a great thing - it suggests that (all other things being equal) Telus is almost the worst deal a customer could choose on value/economy basis.
I'm just sort of trolling for opinions and comments. Curious about how other people interpret Telus's position among the Big Three.
