Why Canadian Cable Companies and Telecoms Are in Trouble
May 16, 2011
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Episode 276: Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard on Canada’s Access to Information Failures and Why Access Delayed is Access Denied
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Burn…
Liberalization could prove disastrous for incumbent Canadian telecom and media conglomerates
Why? Because they’re inefficient and incompetent. If they can’t face competition then good riddance.
The whole article is good but midway through I started hearing a voice shouting “burn, burn, burn”. Strange.
Good. Makes me happy.
Maybe some of these old coots in our telecom businesses will learn that you can’t hold the times back.