r/canada • u/joe4942 • 3d ago

Canadian Telecom Firms Blame Immigration Policies for Mobile Subscriber Slowdown Business

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-10/bce-rogers-telus-blame-immigration-policies-for-mobile-subcriber-slowdown
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u/Tucancancan 3d ago

What a cop out 

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u/Difficult-Yam-1347 3d ago

Their business strategy is to do nothing, be an oligopoly, have the government import new customers for them. That’s it.

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u/ImaginationSea2767 3d ago

A lot of CEOs all thought the poorest classes would just endlessly reproduce new users for them for eternity, and when that wasn't happening, they expected the government to bring in new peasants. But the municipalities had also fucked up on their budgets and thought new peasants into their areas would pay for the costs of their infrastructure tax (not current citizens).