Canada’s biggest telecoms are objecting to the amount of information requested as part of an examination into cellphone plan prices. (Globe and Mail)

Talking point: Canadians pay some of the highest wireless prices in the world. A study from Innovation, Science and Economic Development released in August 2018 found that Canada’s prices were either highest or second-highest compared to those of the U.S., Australia, the U.K., France, Italy, Germany and Japan. In November 2018, my colleague Zane reported on a secret government analysis that found no downside to opening up Canada’s market to foreign telecommunications companies. Canada’s Big Three telecoms—Bell, Rogers and Telus—control about 90 per cent of the wireless market. As part of its preliminary review, the CRTC said that it might require the Big Three to provide smaller competitors with better access to their national networks.