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Bell’s Brilliant Strategy: Charge for GPS!

By Mark Evans | Published: September 25, 2008
Armed with a gazillion dollars in debt (Actually, $30-billion give or take a few dollars) if a private equity buy-out is consummated, Bell Canada’s new corporate mantra is: more cash flow, more cash flow. In practical terms, what it means is Bell needs to squeeze as many dollars as it possibly can from consumers without squeezing [...]
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Canadian Cablecos Winning High-Speed Game

By Mark Evans | Published: August 18, 2008
Earlier this month, Silicon Valley Insider took a look at how the cable companies and telecos fared during Q2 in the high-speed Internet business. When it came to growth, the cable companies kicked some serious butt by taking 73% of net subscriber adds. To get an idea of what’s happening north of the border, I did [...]
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Welcome to Bell Canada Lite

By Mark Evans | Published: July 31, 2008
One of the most puzzling aspects of Bell Canada’s announcement earlier this week it was slashing 2,500 management jobs was that some analysts seemed surprised. In the wake of a leveraged buy-out that has left with more than $30-billion of debt, the company needs to be aggressive to boost cash flow. A key part will [...]
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Goodbye, All-You-Can-Eat Web; Hello, Higher Broadband Profits

By Mark Evans | Published: June 2, 2008
Not sure why this is big news but Time-Warner is testing the concept of metered bandwidth usage with broadband customers in Beaumont, Tex. Come on, we’re talking about a cable company looking at yet another way to squeeze even more profits out of a lucrative business where there’s little or no competition, and price increases are [...]
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Net Neutrality Finally Rears Ugly Head in Canada

By Mark Evans | Published: May 31, 2008
At one time, Canada was among the world leaders in Internet access, ranking second beyond South Korea in broadband penetration. Those days now seem like a distance memory as Canada moves ever closer to becoming a second-tier online country that discourages innovation. Case in point is network neutrality, a debate that has raged in the U.S. but [...]
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The Web As We Know It is Dying

By Mark Evans | Published: May 17, 2008
As an eternal optimist, this is difficult to admit: the Web is dying a slow, but painful, death. The wonderful, Wild West, anything goes landscape that has made the Web so fascinating, innovative, fast-paced and useful is poised to disappear just like the buffaloes did when the settlers appeared and proceeded to slaughter nearly 30 million [...]
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