TELUS is following up on its launch of the Moto Q for business users and is now targetting the cool space with exclusive relationship for the sale of Amp’d branded services in Canada. It appears that TELUS is taking aim at Virgin and continuing to leverage relationships, products and market intelligence that it can glean from Verizon.
Pretty edgy website… I’m feeling old.
Mark Evans writes more about Amp’d.
A few observations:
At the very least, perhaps as part of the annual data collection process for the monitoring report, all carriers should inform the Commission about events that cause a service disruption to a pre-determined sized group of customers.
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I lost 4 trees to the storm, including one that is being kept from blocking the road by being supported by the power and phone lines. It isn’t a pretty sight.
Phone service is up as is our cellular network. Why are these companies generally better at building survivable networks?
I’ll be writing about a couple notable telecom failures when power is restored. We’re in hour 12 now.
This blog entry is via Blackberry.
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Bell‘s results came out this morning, on the footsteps of a couple changes in the executive suite.
Yesterday, confirming a widely expected move, Bell announced that Wade Oosterman has joined George Cope in the executive ranks, taking on the dual role of President of Bell Mobility and Bell Distribution Inc. (BDI), as well as Chief Brand Officer of Bell Canada. At the same time, Isabelle Courville has stepped aside from leading large business sales; she has been replaced by Stéphane Boisvert, formerly of Sun Microsystems Inc.
Numbers of interest: Wireless churn is at 1.1%, beating Rogers numbers of 1.27%. With number portability coming next March, we might expect a number of customers to continue to stay where they are, paying month-to-month, until they are able to take their numbers with them. Watch for special deals or hot new hardware (like the LG Chocolate or Motorola Q) to try to entice customers to lock-in prior to March.
Local lines continue to decline, but long distance minutes aren’t declining as much – which means customers are continuing to make more calls. Average rates for long distance are still dropping.
Wireless average revenue per user is up, although not as much as at Rogers. Interestingly, Bell’s mobile subscribers, at 270 minutes per month, continue to use their phones less than Rogers subscribers (561 minutes). What does this mean for relative network costs and resultant profitability?
Does this mean that Rogers is perceived as having better calling plans for heavier volume users? If so, the implications could be that Bell may need to get more aggressive with new price plans as portability in March 2007 approaches.
According to the CRTC’s monitoring report, the Ontario phenomenon of municipal electric utility companies in the telecom business may have peaked.
Table 3.1.1 of the report shows revenues having peaked in 2003 at $132.3M, declining to $95.5M in 2004 and only $68.5M in 2005. That seems to indicate a 50% drop in sector revenues in only 2 years.
Is this a reporting problem from the CRTC or is this an indication that utilities are changing their minds about the attraction of telecom?
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