Opening up the Canadian telecom industry to foreign competitors is well overdue, particularly when the CEOs of our politically favored service providers start to openly take their customers for granted.
The company said the drop was due to customers signing up for base rate plans with lower prices “in response to more intense marketing and promotional price competition targeting both new and existing customers,” along with a decline in overage and roaming revenues.
“We have to change the psychology within the industry as it relates to marketing and sales. We have a wireless industry where we have to have price competition parity and I, for one, don’t understand that,” said Entwistle.
Stop peeing on us and telling us it’s raining. It’s not that Telus marketing is failing, it’s that Telus services are hugely overpriced compared to 1st world averages. But then again, Atlantic and central Canada just voted that they don’t want to be first world anymore, didn’t they?
Canada hasn’t been first world for some years, and is sliding into third world shithole status. We are the most welcoming people on earth. Instead of a reasonable pace of assimilated immigrants, we brought millions of third worlders in, then changed our country so they’d feel at home.
Sliding? More like plunging headlong.
We should pee on Telus and shout, “Telus! It’s raining!
Maybe the telecoms’ business plans didn’t account for bandwidth demand that resulted from the sudden influx of millions of people who talk on their phones 18 hours a day.
This.
Yup!
…what are you even talking about?
You’ll never know. At least, not until it’s too late.
He doesn’t care because he only thinks about himself. No other generations to think of. Otherwise he’s just a narcissist.
hey, unmebot. stay way from any and all aspects of communications technology.
you might get oh, electrocuted. or drowned in all the bits pouring out of the fibre optic cable.
in Canaduh ‘cable’ is often spelled ‘cabal’ by you know. force of habit . . . . .
anybody remember tho old days (daze) when ma bell helf over 98% of the market? great service, buy oy oy oy oy tres coutouse. and that baloney about ‘yawell yawell yawell derez nuffin wese can doo about hellemarketers’. when in fact ma b was IN CAHOOTS with them.
Er, “Cabal TV” is something else entirely, I think it’s a channel for conspiracy theorists.
Exactly – I always wonder who the hell they are talking to on speaker at volume 10 for 2 hrs in Costco or Walmart.
They sound like they are choking.
wut tu sying? Racist.
Mr Entwistle has no business being a CEO if he doesn’t understand price competition
Are you serious?? None of the Laurentian elite understand price competition, that’s why the have the Liberal Party as a wholly owned subsidiary to prevent that tawdry shit. Telus should get in touch with the L.E.s marketers, they have sold the Libranos to millions.
Never forget how much they hate us
“As a founding member of @smartprosperity, we support @JustinTrudeau & @cathmckenna in putting a #PriceOnCarbon,” Telus’ official Twitter account tweeted on Tuesday night.
RoBelUs should be crushed, until they learn how to help their customers with their needs.
I would vote telecoms government subsidies. Then the Liberals can control content and distribution. No more American channels! Except PBS, of course. And my service costs won’t go up so fast. Say most Canadians.
Meanwhile Bell cut its dividend by over 50%, the first cut in 17 years.
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/bce-cuts-dividend-by-56-strikes-fiber-network-deal-with-psp
“However, average mobile revenue per user fell 1.8% year over year due to competitive pricing pressure and subdued roaming revenue from lower travel to the US, management said on the call.”
Ya can’t get a live person on the phone to Telus, without going thru a robot, and then who knows where in the world that person is?
I need to go back to a home phone, please release me , let me go…
Telus recently did me a favour by charging me $7 more because I was using an old 3G phone, I questioned this and was told it was expensive to maintain an old network that few were using. I fail to understand how this could be true, surely the old infrastructuren was bought-and-paid-for.
Anyway, it pissed me off enough to go search for a better plan, Telus were totally uncompetitive $45 and unconcerned they would lose a long-time customer, I ended up at Lucky (Bell) $18 on a much reduced usage rate which suited me because my use of the phone is minimal.
Looking at US rates I am still being hosed, competition badly needed.
I usually wait until Black Friday, to see which providers are offering the best sales. The last Black Friday sale, I took advantage of an offer, I was paying $39 for 30 GB of data as well as the usual call display, call forwarding, etc etc. I now pay $42 for 110 GB of data and all the other services, plus I got 1000 minutes of USA/international calling, as I have friends and relatives abroad. This is with Fido, a rogers subsidiary, its been fine, so far.
I will change again, if I see any better rates in the future.We are slowly coming around to competitive prices here in Canada, but its been a slog. Most of the infrastructure was put in by a couple of companies that hold all the cards, so to speak.
Meanwhile, my relative in the USA has an unlimited everything legacy plan with T mobile (that they keep trying to get him out of) he has 4 lines, unlimited everything, with global privileges, for $100 USD.
Black Friday is racist!
Captive consumers, indentured servants to a handful of rich families, and then you must shop at the company store – they own your soul in this place. Unification with our neighbors to the south would solve all these problems.
“We’re ending paper invoices so we can steal from you easier.”