[RndTbl] "toaster" neutrality ...

[John Lange]

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