Cable / Telecom News

OPINION: Monty was half-right

I KIND OF PITY JEAN MONTY. Sure, I bet he’s living very well off what’s probably an enormous retirement package, far removed from the VOIP and video and data wars of today, so I don’t feel too bad. Maybe just a twinge. However, I feel the legacy most people dump on the former Bell Canada Enterprises CEO is a little unfair. He’s held up as the poster boy for the rising and then plummeting convergence comet of the early 00s even though he lost his job not because his vision was faulty, but because he used what turned out to...