Rogers Cable?

[Regulator75]

Does anyone know when they are going to start servicing Western Canada?

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Does anyone know when they are going to start servicing Western Canada?

Never would be my guess.

Rogers and Shaw made a deal many years back to split the country in half for cable services. Before then area's were split by some method I don't exactly recall, but I know north Calgary had one provider and South had the other.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Never would be my guess.

Rogers and Shaw made a deal many years back to split the country in half for cable services. Before then area's were split by some method I don't exactly recall, but I know north Calgary had one provider and South had the other.

With Ted gone, things may change. Rogers would have to purchase an existing cable company to get into the Western Canadian market, Persona perhaps.

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/0...blevision.html

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=109637

[ricosuave]

yeah, they used to be here

[Julio]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola

With Ted gone, things may change. Rogers would have to purchase an existing cable company to get into the Western Canadian market, Persona perhaps.

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/0...blevision.html

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=109637

Persona got bought by Eastlink, which does own a few bits and pieces out of their Atlantic stronghold, but a G & M article from last week suggests they would be more apt to swap their Western holdings for bits and pieces that others hold down east...which is how for example Shaw got all of Calgary. Eastlink has already sold the Persona holdings in Saskatchewan to Access, a co-op cable company that is centred out of Regina.

As for the OP's question, the short answer is no. There isn't a good business case for creating all that infrastructure (the cable) in order to try and go up against two established companies that already have a huge capital base behind them (Shaw and Telus in Calgary). MMDS systems such as Image Cable would be a way of entering the market but the technology hasn't been successful in an urban setting in Canada.

[kyuusei]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Never would be my guess.

Rogers and Shaw made a deal many years back to split the country in half for cable services. Before then area's were split by some method I don't exactly recall, but I know north Calgary had one provider and South had the other.

I remember that. It was Shaw in the north and Rogers in the south if I can recall.

And Rogers was my first Internet cable provider back when it first started out. They called it 'Rogers Wave' or something.