RE: Number Portability

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux@slg.org [mailto:owner-linux@slg.org] On
> Behalf Of Dylan Griffiths
> Sent: December 9, 2006 5:27 PM
> To: linux@slg.org
> Subject: Re: Number Portability
>
> When was the last time you saw Sasktel try to pimp their
> wireless, Internet, or POTS service in Manitoba or Alberta?
> There's gold in Alberta, I hear, black gold. Yet they're not
> pushing into that market because they're happy with their
> Saskatchewan monopoly, and they have developed cost models
> around having a captive audience. It'd cost them money to be
> competitive.

There is no available wireless spectrum in Alberta to have, so that's one
reason why SaskTel Mobility isn't competing in Alberta. I can't comment
about the other products.

Crown corporations can and do compete. SGI-Canada is now selling insurance
products in Alberta, and has been in Manitoba for some time. It also owns
an insurer (Coachman Insurance) in Ontario and owns another (Insurance
Corporation of Prince Edward Island) that writes across the Maritimes.

Jim
Received on Sun Dec 10 11:01:22 2006