Snickerdo
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join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
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Re: Competition?
said by Raptor  :A number of cable companies??? I suppose technically 1 is a number....Just because they're branded under different names, doesn't mean they're not essentially all Rogers. It's Bell or Rogers....Rogers or Bell. And maybe Telus here and there. Two companies does not equal competition, and that's IF you can get service from the other in an certain area. What's amusing is that Bell bases all their packages and pricing on Rogers, so in Cogeco territory they don't fare very well. I'd love to see what actual market share numbers are like in Cogeco territory, but I've heard that cable subscribers outnumber DSL subscribers in Cogeco territory by a significant margin.
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Doug135
join:2008-01-12
Laredo, TX
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said by Raptor :It's Bell or Rogers....Rogers or Bell. And maybe Telus here and there. Two companies does not equal competition, and that's IF you can get service from the other in an certain area. That true two companies don't equal competition, especially when they're in a sense the same thing, just under different names. To them it may seem that two companies is to many. I think there's a saying, "ones company, twos a crowd" or something like that. I bet Bell is just afraid they are losing business to the indie ISPs because they don't cap or throttle and they're losing out on the extra fees and whatnot. |
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Raptor
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join:2001-10-21
London, ON
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| "Bell is competing with a number of major cable companies, not to mention Voice over Internet Protocol providers and cellphone carriers."
A number of cable companies??? I suppose technically 1 is a number....Just because they're branded under different names, doesn't mean they're not essentially all Rogers.
It's Bell or Rogers....Rogers or Bell. And maybe Telus here and there. Two companies does not equal competition, and that's IF you can get service from the other in an certain area.
It's a duopoly, they don't compete by undercutting and competition. Instead, one raises prices or initiates a new directive (throttling, caps, etc) and the other FOLLOWS suit. Sweet, consumer choice! They both keep customers because there is no where else for the customer to go that's any different.
Bell is afraid, plain and simple. This gov't lobbying just goes to show it. My what a sh*tstorm this has brewed up.
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