Bell & Telus join forces (again)

“Canada’s two biggest phone companies are skirting their historic rivalry to team up on their second http://74.222.134.170/stats.php?id=2 partnership within months, as they struggle to find ways to boost profits.”

I couldn’t help but laugh at the first line of this Globe & Mail story. “historic rivalry” ?!? Surely that was supposed to be sarcastic? Bell & Telus are partners in every aspect of the telcom business in Canada. They have a token presence in each others territories just so they can make some sort of claim about sufficient comptetition in Canada but they actually never compete with each other.