Freedom Mobile is launching in 50 cities across B.C. and Alberta as part of its parent company's aggressive expansion since acquiring the carrier last year.
  • Beaver@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The support the smaller players get the more competitive the market becomes

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Quebecor Inc. is a “smaller player”?

      I guess Videotron and Freedom are relatively smaller, but Quebecor is a behemoth.

      It owns:

      • Groupe TVA (broadcasting, publishing & production)
      • Canoe Inc. (internet websites including Canoe.ca/Canoe.com portal and Archambault.ca)
      • Vidéotron (cellular, cable television and internet service provider)
      • MediaPages (print and online directories)
      • TVA Publishing Inc. (largest magazine publishing company in Quebec)
      • Quebecor Media Book Group (book publishing companies)
      • Distribution Select (distributor of CDs and videos)
      • Le SuperClub Vidéotron (Movie rental stores)
      • Gestion Studios Bloobuzz S. E. C (a video games publisher)
      • QMI press agency (news agency)
      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Informative, still very small compared to Telus who’s now entering healthcare and farming among other things.

        • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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          4 months ago

          Telus has been digging their greasy fingers into healthcare - specifically government-funded, for-profit healthcare - for about a decade now.

      • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Fair enough. Even so though, consider their respective revenues:

        • Quebecor: $4.5Bn (2022)
        • Telus: $15.3Bn (2020)
        • Rogers: $15.4Bn (2022 - may not include Shaw’s revenue from that year)
        • Bell: $24Bn (2019)

        So less than a third of second-last place. In relative terms, that’s a lot smaller.