I want a new C-Phone

I am very pleased that a new competitor has been permitted to enter the Canadian market place, and I will very likely be heading out to buy my very own Egyptian cell phone as soon as they reach the market. While I am a nationalist in many ways, I have accumulated a critical mass of criticism about Canadian cellular service providers. I once had a Solo Mobile phone, and the plan was terrible. They kept adding new fees to my account months after I purchased the phone, and over-billed me for virtually every service provided. Eventually I was being charged $50 a month for a phone that I hardly used.

Currently I own a Rogers "pay as you go" which should be called Rogers "gauged as you go". How much I pay for how little I use my phone is absurd. What is most ridiculous is that when I buy a phone card, it expires in 30 days! That means that if I am fiscally responsible and save some minutes, Rogers steals them from me at the end of the month. I hate Rogers, and I want a new cell phone. My brain is 95% visual and 5% auditory, so I handle virtually all my correspondence over the written medium. I only use a phone for emergencies, so I can go 2 weeks without making a phone call. It is insane that I am not allowed to carry over minutes, or that I get billed if I ignore a call from a telemarketer.

I will never own a Telus phone because their union is crazy. When Telus had their work stoppage, the striking workers were following "scabs" home from work and bullying them in their driveways. As far as I am concerned, Telus does not exist, and Solo and Rogers are damned near criminal.

I suppose our Canadian cellular cartel can be credited to the Beautiful Mind of John Nash. "What if nobody goes for the blond? That's the only way we all win, the only way we all get laid gentlemen." That's what happens when you try to make prevalence a non-singular event, the main participants in the game may be able to abnormally boost their profits (like OPEC), but a price will be paid at the consumer level. I despise the big 3 in Canada for joining together to gauge consumers, and it is about time we injected healthy competition into the market to bust up the inefficient cellular cartel.

I applaud the government for doing this, and I look forward to visiting a store and replacing this expensive piece of crap that I bought from Rogers. I also don't sign cell phone contracts, they are insane. I had a few friends get roped into ridiculous contracts and were shafted for large sums of money. Also at the rate of technological innovation, what if a fantastic new piece of technology comes out a year into your 3 year contract? You then have to buy out of the contract to buy the new phone. I hate cell phone contracts and refuse to sign up for them.

Globalive, I await your arrival with breathless anticipation!