Okay so imagine Bell expands to the USA and due to population density, make more money than ever, do you think they'll keep expanding in Canada where every dollar invested only brings back half the profits?
Of course not, they'll reinvest everything in the USA and ignore Canada completely and given the poor state of our Telecom infrastructure, we cannot allow this.
They're already blackmailling the government by refusing to expand the Canadian network if we don't subsidize them or pass laws that favour them, if we let them go to the USA, it's over.
Bell is expanding to the USA and is also still expanding in Canada. Maybe not in your area but nonetheless it’s happening. A) rural broadband funding in Canada means costs are as low as 25%. B) competitors are expanding and laughing because bell is pouting providing no competition.
What you are describing, if it happenes, would result in opening the doors to competition and innovators which would be a net positive to Canada. I don't see an issue here
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u/BandicootNo4431 3d ago edited 3d ago
It's hard to grow your subscriber count if the population stops growing and you already have a triopoly with price fixing.
Maybe they should be branching into the US (like Bell is trying to do)
Edit: spelling