• Beaver@lemmy.caOP
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      3 months ago

      The support the smaller players get the more competitive the market becomes

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        Quebecor Inc. is a “smaller player”?

        I guess Videotron and Freedom are relatively smaller, but Quebecor is a behemoth.

        It owns:

        • Groupe TVA (broadcasting, publishing & production)
        • Canoe Inc. (internet websites including Canoe.ca/Canoe.com portal and Archambault.ca)
        • Vidéotron (cellular, cable television and internet service provider)
        • MediaPages (print and online directories)
        • TVA Publishing Inc. (largest magazine publishing company in Quebec)
        • Quebecor Media Book Group (book publishing companies)
        • Distribution Select (distributor of CDs and videos)
        • Le SuperClub Vidéotron (Movie rental stores)
        • Gestion Studios Bloobuzz S. E. C (a video games publisher)
        • QMI press agency (news agency)
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          Fair enough. Even so though, consider their respective revenues:

          • Quebecor: $4.5Bn (2022)
          • Telus: $15.3Bn (2020)
          • Rogers: $15.4Bn (2022 - may not include Shaw’s revenue from that year)
          • Bell: $24Bn (2019)

          So less than a third of second-last place. In relative terms, that’s a lot smaller.

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          Informative, still very small compared to Telus who’s now entering healthcare and farming among other things.

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            Telus has been digging their greasy fingers into healthcare - specifically government-funded, for-profit healthcare - for about a decade now.

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      I’ve been with them since they were called Wind. Always been satisfied, but since they merged with Videotron my experience with them has gotten even better.