Canada is a telecom backwater, says backer of Wind Mobile theglobeandmail.com8 pointsCountHackulus16 years agoAccording to Naguib Sawiris, the Egyption entrepreneur, and executive chairman of Orascom Telecom, Canada is a telecom backwater. The big three telecoms (Bell, Telus, Rogers) are "a joke" and "too big, too slow."