{"id":12533,"date":"2021-01-18T23:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T07:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2021-01-18T23:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T07:36:02","slug":"government-encouraging-you-to-switch-service-providers-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/government-encouraging-you-to-switch-service-providers-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Encouraging You To Switch Service Providers To Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government Encouraging You To Switch Service Providers To Save Money<\/p>\n

While switching service providers is a common way to get great discounts considering service providers often provide the best rates to either keep or acquire new customers, isn\u2019t it odd to see the government encourage people to do this? That\u2019s exactly what happened as on the Competition Bureau of Canada released a note on how if you want the best deals for things like your Internet access service then you should consider switching providers.<\/p>\n

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They say things such as \u201cIt\u2019s Switch Week! Time to stop overpaying and start switching. Canadians could be overpaying around $1,860 per year for their telecom, banking and insurance plans combined.\u201d<\/p>\n

Normally for the government their role should simply be to make sure businesses are charging people fair prices in general. But this would kind of imply to me that they think the rules to ensure fair pricing is already there and that it\u2019s your job as the consumer is to change companies if you aren\u2019t getting good rates.<\/p>\n

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Again, it\u2019s kind of odd as I would imagine that wouldn\u2019t really help if all companies reached an agreement to charge specific prices as an example. That\u2019s where the government should come in if that\u2019s the case. But either way, this sure reinforces the idea that if you want a better deal for things like your Internet service be prepared to actually change carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government Encouraging You To Switch Service Providers To Save Money While switching service providers is a common way to get great discounts considering service providers often provide the best rates to either keep or acquire new customers, isn\u2019t it odd to see the government encourage people to do this? That\u2019s exactly what happened as on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[7823,7796,7822],"class_list":["post-12533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-change-providers","tag-internet-service","tag-switch-carriers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turnout.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-3g9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12536,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions\/12536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}