Mark Evans has a post about Videotron’s announcement that it has more than 400,000 cable telephone customers, making it the largest cable telephony provider in Canada and 5th largest in North America.
Mark commented on the pain being felt by Bell:
no doubt Videotron has made life miserable for Bell Canada, particularly in Montreal.
Videotron’s milestone coincided with Bell releasing its 4Q06 results, numbers that indicated that Bell is having trouble with wireless services. Mark asks:
whether Videotron will be able to maintain this momentum when the local telephone market is deregulated, and Bell will be able to sell its service for whatever price it wants without seeking regulatory approval.
We’ll see if the mobile wireless market is instructive in answering that question.