Independent internet service provider TekSavvy recently started a Facebook ad campaign showcasing “big telecoms web of brands” in Canada, showing how Rogers, Telus, Bell and Videotron own numerous smaller companies.
“Who REALLY owns your provider? It might surprise you,” says TekSavvy, noting it is “one of the last independent ISPs.”
“We fight to keep Canada’s internet open and affordable. More competition is a good thing for everyone but the big guys,” explains the post.
According to TekSavvy, “competition is dying fast. This past year alone—five ISPs sold out to Big Telecom, while Rogers and Shaw seek federal approval for their $26 billion merger.”
The graphic shows the following brands owned by Rogers, Telus, Bell and Videotron…
Rogers
Telus
Update: RhiCom President Kayle Tjomsaas told iPhone in Canada in an email, only a “select group of customers who were served by fixed wireless technologies were acquired by TELUS” and that “outside of the acquired customers, RhiCom has no legal partnership or affiliation with TELUS.”
Bell
Videotron (Subsidiary of Quebecor)
Nothing to see here folks. If the Rogers-Shaw merger is approved, prices are supposed to go down as competition will increase, we’re all told by these companies.
The post concludes by saying, “Minister Champagne and the CRTC must act now. End Big Telecom’s fibre monopoly. Stop anticompetitive rate-fixing. Or we’ll all soon be trapped in Big Telecom’s web.”
