Fibre-optic infrastructure investments fuel competition in Canadian broadband sector, says Moody’s

TORONTO - Competition between Canada’s telecommunications and cable companies will rise to unprecedented levels in the coming years as companies keep spending to improve their network fibre-optic infrastructure, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.The report, ‘Broadband Communications - Canada: Unique Market Structure Guides Capital Spending for Broadband Providers’, says the investment is unlikely to yield a definitive winner in the long run. Rather, based on their investments and advances in internet protocols, the companies' technological capabilities are more likely to converge."Canadian broadband communications companies will continue investing in their networks over the next decade, driving their fiber-optic...