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The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: SaskTel president and CEO Robert Watson

COMPETITION HAS COME to Saskatchewan. The little-big (population-area) province has had competition on the terrestrial video side since 2002 but only recently has a serious voice option come available. It was quite a lag between the cable companies in the province losing 50,000 video customers and their recent launch of voice over IP. With the largest MSOs in the province: Shaw (Saskatoon, Prince Albert) and Access (Regina and area) now – or about to be – adding VOIP, competition is officially hot. So how is the provincially-owned telco faring, with still 98% of the local phone lines? President and CEO...