Robert Depatie delivered a passionate and insightful rebuttal to the positions that had been advanced by the telco CEOs over the past 3 days at The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit.
A lot has been made of the 25% threshold for telco forebearance, versus 5% for cablecos. But M. Depatie pointed out that Videotron started from only 63% market penetration.
And contrary to statements that cable is deregulated, he pointed out ‘the fascination with placement on the dial.’ The point hit home when he showed a photo of an old TV dial and asked if any of us had seen a TV tuner with a dial recently.
Great speech – great positioning. We need to hear more from Videotron!