Over the past couple of weeks there have been many rumours that Verizon may expand into Canada. An official statement from the U.S. carrier said that there are no plans for Verizon to enter the Canadian market. Several analysts say that the decision may mean Canadians could soon end up paying more on their cellphone bills.
Just the thought of Verizon’s entry had Canada’s big three carriers offering new data sharing plans that were previously unavailable to consumers.
On Tuesday Iain Grant, a telecom analyst, said
“If nothing else, even the spectre of Verizon coming here was enough to change pricing in the Canadian market. Without Verizon, will prices creep up? I think, sadly, the answer is probably yes.”
Rogers, Bell and Telus shares surged on the news that Verizon confirmed that a Canadian entry was “off the table at this point.”
Verizon said on Monday that it was no longer interested in competing in the Canadian wireless market after announcing it would pay US$130 billion for a 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless owned by British cellphone carrier Vodafone.
Will Verizon ever reconsider entering the Canadian market?
[via o.canada.com]
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Yup. All 3 meet up and agree how to rob us blind.
And it has been working pretty well for them, hasn’t it…
Agreed! it is all a scheme to rob us
don’t worry you guys VERIZON will be back a lot of us not giving up on them once they pay up there 60 billion debt we will have one day NORTH AMERICA PLAN
industry Canada will open the market when the policy expires next year if maybe or may not
some of us have already have Verizon account for Canadian
i sign up back in 2008 with the when IPHONE 4 was release on the Verizon network
i have GRANDFATHER PLAN with them now
i am paying $59.95
NY SALES TAX 8%
TOTAL $64.45
UNLIMITED TALK AND TEXT AND DATA
CANADA 1,000 MINUTES UNLIMITED TEXT U.S/CANADA IN AND OUT
after they remove unlimited data plan and changed it to Share Everything Plan
to keep our unlimited data we can not upgrade our iPhone if we did will lose the unlimited data i kept the plan ever since
I wish I could have this plan just so I don’t have to give RoBeLus another penny….
I wonder what other plans Verison has with Canadian roaming…. If they had anything similar with maybe 2 or 3 gigs I would sign up in a second..
I guess the only problem would be anyone calling You would incur long distance charges.
1000 shared minutes for:Long distance from the U.S. to Canada/Mexico.
Calls while in Canada to numbers in the U.S., Mexico or Canada
UNLIMITED DATA PLAN wil only work in the U.S not canada that the only charges i will get
Even if they came to Canada, they probably wouldn’t introduce an unlimited data plan
there is plan some sort you have call them in or go to the Verizon Wireless Store
you get better coverage with Verizon
You have to add $15 CANADA LINE ontop of the Share Everything Plan
all you need
is PASSPORT ID #
DRIVER LICENSES
SIN # CANADIAN
and CANADIAN ADDRESS
Verizon’s iPhone 4S, and 5 comes fully UNLOCKED with 2 year contract $199 meaning you guys don’t pay unlocked fee its FREE
when they you sign up Verizon 2 year its fully unlocked you can put sim anywhere you want but there catch YOUR LOCKED to Verizon
BIG 3 here charges UNLOCKED iPhone after 90days
BELL $75
ROGERS $50
TELUS $35
VERIZON FREE
BIG 3 is ripping us now big time
Only if you could find that plan again!
But you could buy the phone out right from the apple store.
back than it was little expensive for me buy unlocked iPhone i was on contract when i sign up with Verizon
now i that i have iPhone 4s with Rogers and my old iPhone 4 with Verizon i wil be buying the new iphone 5S from apple soon use it Verizon i was about ditch my UNLIMITED DATA PLAN to get see what will Verizon will offer in Canada since there not coming i will keep it little longer use my iphone 5s 🙂
GUess i am the only that couldnt figure out how he got the iphone 4 back in 2008….
sorry about that typo its 2011 thanks for heads up
hehe all good 🙂
typo its 2011 IPHONE 4 not 2008 was release on the Verizon network
i sign up end of June my contract with verizion
Sorry to say but I think you need to realize this particular dream is DEAD! Maybe one day but not anytime soon.
It most likely won’t happen any time soon, you’re right. But we can always be hopeful that it will eventually happen.
there still hope you never know they might open market remove foreign restriction few years from now Verizon might snatch Telus
Verizon cant expand in Europe Market Vodafone Controls 95% market
so as hell Verizon will not expand down south Mexico the cartel telecom controls all South America market and Mexico
they only market is u.s market now and they might revisit the the Canadian market few year from now
But if Verizon were to buy Telus, then they would acquire their existing costumers and would have no incentive to aggressively price their plans. That was the beauty of Verizon entering Canada at this point in time – they would have next to no costumers but with deep enough pockets to try to attract business through hardware or service plan discounts.
On a conference call with analysts on Tuesday, Chief Financial Officer
Fran Shammo also said that the company would still expect to be able to
participate in upcoming wireless airwaves auctions, despite a plan to
take on more than $60 billion in new debt to pay for Verizon Wireless. from Toronto Sun
the next CANADA wireless spectrum is in 2015 -2016
I don’t know what that says about their plans. Sure they could still come to Canada in the future, and fingers crossed that we get new competition somehow. The thing about Verizon and this opportunity is that they were both a new entrant into the market and they deep-pocketed.
Forget about Telus, Verizon should come to Canada and buy all three major carriers!!!
if Canadian government open up market for tele and media sector
Verizon wil buy Telus
AT&t will buy ROGERS
T MOBILE will buy WIND/Mobilty
as for for Bell DISH and Direct TV want piece of be BELL ‘ ASS for a long time they want cripple Bell what they did to them 20 years ago BANNING them from Canada that why they can’t offer they will have there revenge why do you think half Canadian stealing DISH SIGNAL past year DISH and Direct TV want to get in the Canada ever since i hope government will realize its time it open up the market WE DON’T want MONOPOLY anymore
we fed up
I completely agree!
Well duh.
Forget Verizon, what we need is a Non north american provider such as Three or FREE Mobile. For true low prices.
That is true. Three has unbelievable prices in Europe, we should bring those to Canada
Then for sure the big three will have a run for their money!
maybe one day Verizon will enter (which I believe they will) and we’ll remember this Big 3. We’ll remember. you would think they would take this opportunity to be a bit “nicer” but as we know, they aren’t exactly very smart about customer satisfaction and retention.
I hope so!!!! But they are probably much better than what we have now.
I think Verizon should have come to Canada!!!!!!
Totally Agree!!!!
The big three are just ripping us off!!!
I don’t know why Canada and the government stand and tolerates what the big three have been doing
They wasted all there money trying to protest against Verizon coming here, they should have used that money to make there services better!!!!!!
Canada should take a stand against the big three!!!!
Why do we put up with them????? Verizon COME TO CANADA!!!!!
The big three should be renamed the big rip off!!!!!
Europe and the US have so much better contract pricing for mobile phones!!
Verizon should come to Canada and buy all the Canadian carriers!!!!!!!!
Rogers lower your prices!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t use the phone function of my phone at all. In fact, it’s still locked since I bought it. Instead, I rely on Fongo anytime I have wifi. I am thinking about just getting a Data only plan. Are there any company that just offers that for phones?