The telcos had a brief opportunity to repair their reputation in Canada by riding a wave of patriotism. But no…
We need to funnel more people from Bell to Freedom!
Shout-out from a proud and satisfied Freedom Mobile user here!
“Quebecor looks to have strong momentum on customer acquisition, but we believe a more balanced approach in terms of price and quantity would be a better strategy for long-term shareholder value creation,” Mr. Yaghi said.
He said that while the company picked up customers, revenues from its telecom operations fell by 2 per cent year-over-year, which showed that “relying on subscriber loading alone will not be enough” to boost financial results.
How is this any different than the others? Except that their strategy was undercutting the others.
Because "fuck you", that's why
If you can recall back to around 2010 or thereabouts, there were rumours of US telecom provider Verizon entering the Canadian market. The big three Canadian pieces of shit spent MILLIONS on advertisements crying about facetious bullshit that pretty much nobody believed. Verizon ended up noping out anyway, presumably because of how shit our infrastructure is.
They could have spent that money to improve their service and be companies people actually want to deal with... But nah.
Aren't there penalties for breaking contract?
provincial and federal governments announced more than $22.3 million in funding to bring high-speed Internet
Can we get our 22.3 million + interest back then? Seems like it might be time to make it a public company again.
Bell Canada parent company BCE awarded its executives more than $5 million after announcing it was laying off 4,800 employees.
Fuck this company
Lol, nah, but we will give them another 50 million to do it in a couple more years with the exact same outcome as this time.
Nationalize
Ma Bell being evil?
Why I am shocked. Shocked I say..
Fuck Bhell!
#Letstalk about nationalization.
The US has had actual per capita GDP growth, while Canada only has mass immigration into a housing shortage with per capita GDP growth below inflation, so it makes sense. Wages actually grow in the US, and there isnt capital shallowing, so they can afford more services.
I know right, fascism is great for profits!
Even under Biden?
Was the project scrapped under Biden?
GDP grew I meant.
You push your narrative, I'll push mine. According to your narrative, the Bell deal is off because USA stronk, Canada no stronk. Your narrative, your burden of substantiation.
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