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Originally Posted by stampsx2
^^^ yaaaa i’m guessing you work for telus.
If they haven’t done those things by now they’ll have a hard time implementing them under a different name i would imagine.
You were saying and i heard it mentioned in the video that videotron out of quebec is likely to take freedom’s place. We would have a national bilingual cell phone provider with low prices. I mean it’ll be a pretty quick and easy switch for me if i see my cell phone bill go up.
Our cell providers here in alberta would be bell, rogers, telus and videotron instead of shaw. Not much change at all except for a name.
Internet and tv i’m not too worried about so long as there is competition and a minimum of two providers. Since telus isn’t going anywhere that competition remains. I don’t see how changing from a shaw to rogers brand is going to change much for me.
Anyway. I’m out. I’ll let you guys fight it out.
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Not even sure why you entered this thread. Are you a Rogers or Shaw shareholder?
Shaw has a massive fiber backbone in Canada. They own a lot of telecom infrastructure.
Right now one of the biggest issues facing Canada is our inability to offer high speed internet to every single Canadian. The reason this is still a problem is because of the 'last mile' problem. I.E. it is costly to dig a line to every single house. This is why companies like TekSavvy, or hundreds of others make deals with Rogers, Bell, Shaw, Telus, Hurricane Electric, etc, etc to buy wholesale transit and bandwidth. If we allow these 'backbone' providers to merge, competition on that front decreases, prices go up, and our ability to offer cheap internet to every Canadian becomes a bigger problem.
I don't even look at this from the mobile plan perspective because I am almost certain the government will force Shaw to divest Freedom Mobile.
My issue is with everything else.