BCE’s Bold Plan: Bell Slashes Costs & Invades Telus Territory – What It Means for Investors
Bell’s decision to resell fibre internet in Western Canada using Telus’s network is a landmark strategic U-turn. For years, Bell fought against mandated wholesale access to broadband networks, warning it would deter investmentiphoneincanada.ca. Telus, conversely, lobbied for these rules and quickly took advantage by expanding into Eastern Canada over Bell’s linesiphoneincanada.ca. Now, faced with the reality of the regulator’s decision, Bell is adopting an “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” approachiphoneincanada.ca. Under the CRTC’s wholesale fibre policy, large telcos must sell network access to competitors at regulated rates to stimulate competitionts2.tech. Starting in the coming weeks, Bell will launch its own internet packages in B.C. and Alberta carried on Telus’s fibre infrastructureiphoneincanada.ca. This immediately opens ~3.4 million western households and businesses to Bell’s servicesiphoneincanada.ca – a customer base previously off-limits. It also means Western Canadians will soon have a third major choice for home internet alongside Telus and Rogersiphoneincanada.ca.
