Awesome news.
I have been with Freedom for quite a while now (towards the end of them being called Wind), and they have consistently improved in service quality and coverage.
What I like best though, besides the prices, is how straightforward it is to buy a data package for international travel. Pick your start date, country, and data amount and it’s done in two minutes.
They’re not perfect, but they’re pretty good and they’re also not the oligopoly.
Time to switch from Telus
Considering this heavily.
The support the smaller players get the more competitive the market becomes
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)
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.
Informative, still very small compared to Telus who’s now entering healthcare and farming among other things.
Telus has been digging their greasy fingers into healthcare - specifically government-funded, for-profit healthcare - for about a decade now.
Did you know they did the report that said Alberta is owed half of the CPP?
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.
Do it. If it sucks too hard, Telus will give you a win-back plan off the books. I’ve been on Freedom since around 2010 in Ontario. Their network has always been worse than ROBeLUS but boy does it feel good to not be paying the oligopoly.
