Cable / Telecom News

Letter To The Editor: Canadians have good reason to be skeptical of BDU claims


CABLE AND SATELLITE COMPANIES say Ottawa has forced them to stick customers with a fee increase – a “tax”, as they like to call it – to help subsidize local programming. Their spokespeople say viewers should be “vigilant about how much governments are imposing on you.”Canadians have good reason to be skeptical.Canada’s cable and satellite industry is in robust good health. Its profits exceeded $2 billion last year (on revenues of more than $10 billion). Not coincidentally, the average customer’s monthly bill has gone up more than 20% since 2002.It’s hardly onerous to propose that the cable and satellite companies...