I could be wrong about the bid for TV rights.
I am not wrong about them being a horribly managed company that would die in an instant to US based companies.
They have had the CRTC working for them for years. They charged over a dollar a minute for long distance calls in the 1980s and 90s. Infrastructure grants, you name it. This company has been a train wreck for years and everything they touch turns to crap.
It's almost impossible for a near monopoly to be in the red but they do it. Nortel my man.
I am not into corporate welfare. Canada does that best because we can almost never grow a business to world stage levels except for gold mining. We even lost potash. Canada is going to be a train wreck financially within 4 years. Mark my words
Respectfully I disagree, around a 10% margin in a recession economy is not a poorly managed company. The CRTC has been frequently locking horns with Bell in recent memory, the death blow for Bell in the Telecommunication industry was the recent CRTC ruling that forces Bell to sell it's bandwidth at wholesale rates to competitors, Bell takes all the financial risks, has to navigate through all the Federal regulatory boards and local municipalities zoning laws to build state of the art infrastructure but it's competition benefits from state of the art technology with zero risk and zero effort. It's like the CRTC telling MacDonalds if they want to do business they have to let their Drive Through to be used by Burger King.
No so sure Verizon, At & T and other American telecommunication companies would even want to come to Canada, too much government interference and red tape. I'm not sure I would want them to come up here either, based on my multiple American friends feedback their cell service is S#it , cheap service ($) with shitty quality.
If it's included with Prime I'm good, but if it's an add on that could change my tune.
In saying that, I can't see the NHL going away from traditional tv, and Regional packages are still worth something in Canada, so it will be interesting to see what happens in a couple of years.
Money is king, I thought I'd never see the CBC lose it's Saturday night rights...
. Rant over, carry on.
