Lack of competition chipping away at Canada's tech
Netflix and Sony roll out Canadian download movie services, Rogers lowers bandwidth caps. Coincidence?
Rogers is no doubt starting to feel threatened by the Internet. Rogers TV and move rental businesses, which includes pay-per-view, DVD rentals, and TV movie specialty channels, can all be replaced by the Internet.
But, never fear! Canada’s lack of competition to the rescue!
Since Rogers is also the Internet provider in a market with no serious competition, it can just ensure that internet access remains slow enough and expensive enough to dissuade people from using it to rent movies.
Switch to another internet provider you say? That would be Bell who is also in the movie rental business (Expressview) and who recently started throttling internet traffic, but of course, not to it’s own online movie download service.
