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The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Kelvin Shepherd, president, consumer markets, MTS Allstream


WINNIPEG IS ONE OF THE HOTTER bundling battlegrounds in Canada. While Shaw is the incumbent video provider and a nascent voice company in the Manitoba capital, MTS Allstream, the provincial telco (which is also a national wholesale and enterprise player) has claimed about 55,000 video customers with MTS TV in Winnipeg – the only city in the province in which it has a cable license. Customers like the simple bill, the fact they can re-jig their channel lineups on screen or even see e-mails and caller ID on their TVs. Finally, last month, MTS TV added a key piece of...