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Spoiler, it's just Bell.
There's only 2 (ish) physical nationwide phone networks in the country. Anyone else is going ro be running on that same infrastructure.
Either they're running on Bell's infrastructure (which will include Telus in the west), or they're on Rogers infrastructure.
No low(er) cost brand or new company is going to be able to spend the hundreds of billions to build their own nationwide infrastructure.
Which is why we have 50 'different' providers who all offer the same service for the same price.
It's unlikely that we'll see another company willing (or able) to spend the money to build another physical network.
The networks that currently exist were built incrementally over 30+ years.
Anyone starting today would be at a massive coverage area disadvantage while they were building their system.
And until it covered most of the places where people wanted to go, they would have to compete against well funded incumbents using cut rates to attract customers. At the same time they would be spending hundreds of billions on their capitol build project.
It's a hard mountain to climb. Several have already tried and failed.