Cable / Telecom News

New immigrants will spur telephony growth

TORONTO - Owning media and telecom assets makes sense to Ted Rogers. He believes that targeting new immigrants for voice products and services is a growth opportunity for his company, which is now offering wired and wireless telephony across the country. “What’s unique in our city, in our area here… is that the real market for long distance is the foreign markets, particularly the Asian markets where you’ve got a lot of new Canadians who are just interested in a package to their one country and I think you’ll find that a competitive battleground as we go forward,” he said....