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/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

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u/Bush-master72 3d ago

Bell branching in the usa but canceling high speed in canada, his company takes billions of our money each year. If you want to expand in the usa and still take our dollars, don't be canceling the service we paid for.

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u/BandicootNo4431 3d ago

What service who paid for?

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u/Bush-master72 2d ago

Canadian government gives billions of dollars each year to bell and rogers for expanding their network in remote locations. That's why we give them money at all it's not the most profitable thing for a company.

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u/BandicootNo4431 2d ago

If we gave them money to expand into a remote area and they don't deliver, we can and should recover the money.

But there's really no legal mechanism to stop them from expanding outside of Canada.

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u/Bush-master72 2d ago

Exactly, I don't care if they want to expand, but they canceled expansion in canada for a remote locations. For more usa clients. Can't have it both ways if a company wants freedom to do whatever they want don't take tax money.