In a move that helps consolidate its 5-service bundle offering in Manitoba, MTS Allstream and SaskTel have exchanged some of their security customers. SaskTel’s SecureTek gave up its Manitoba customers in exchange for MTS Allstream’s AAA Alarm customers located outside Manitoba – mainly in Alberta.
According to SaskTel CEO Robert Watson
This agreement will allow SecurTek to focus on geographic growth in its target growth markets of Saskatchewan, Ontario, B.C. and Alberta.
In my question to MTS Allstream chief Pierre Blouin last week at The Canadian Telecom Summit, I commented about the prairie phenomenon of home security services as an adjacency to telephone, TV, internet and mobile services. Other Canadian service providers have 4 arrows in their quiver. MTS Allstream and SaskTel carry a fifth.
This announced swap of customers helps MTS Allstream offer more bundling to more Manitoba customers while providing SaskTel with greater scale in its operations outside its core territory.
Why aren’t more communications services providers offering home security?