On a related note; Bell is arguing in front of the CRTC this week on it's impending takeover of Astral media. One of the justifications it's using is that it "needs" to become bigger in order to compete with companies like Netflix.
I nearly fell off my chair when I read that. BCE, a company with a market cap of $35 Billion and a massive Canadian market advantage, feels it's too small to compete successfully with Netfilx, a company with a market cap of $3 Billion.
Bell is probably right, it won't be able to compete with Netflix. Not because of size, but because I seriously doubt that Bell is capable of innovating. Whatever they come up with be terrible, and, in the mean time they'll buy up all the content and refuse to license it to Netflix and everyone else to prevent any real competition, plus their streaming service won't count against your download cap.
In other words they'll win through market dominance, not the appeal of their product.
John