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Bell Makes Small, but Strategically Key, Acquisition
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Mark Evans
on Tue 02 Aug 2005 04:33 PM EDT | Permanent Link
Bell Canada is spending C$26-million to acquire the residential assets of Montreal-based Cable VDN. In the scheme of things, it is not a major deal but if you scratch behind the surface, there is more to it than meet's the eye. How come? Cable VDN uses a fiber-optic network in Montreal to deliver broadband and digital TV service to apartment buildings and condos - a.k.a. multi-dwelling units, or MDUs. The deal will let Bell aggressively pursue 400,000 MDUs - a market where it has taken a back seat to cable companies. This should give Bell a way to fire back at Videotron, which has taken more than 40,000 local telephone customers from Bell since February. Bell can now go after Videtron's cable customers who live in apartment buildings and condos with its own digital TV service. Bell said Cable VDN has about 13,000 TV and 3,000 high-speed customers in Montreal. Another benefit is Bell can now spend more resources and time getting its VDSL technology into more MDUs in Toronto.
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Re: Bell Makes Small, but Strategically Key, Acquisition
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bda
on Wed 03 Aug 2005 01:47 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
Very interesting. VDN wasn't a random new entrant; it is 20 percent owned (pdf) by Gaz Métropolitain, Montrea's incumbent natural gas provider.
In other words, it's one of the new breed of utility telcos who, as entrants with related assets and therefore a foot in the order, were supposed to be the last hope for non-incumbent facilities-based competition to the monopolies-become-players, both telco and cable. Given its analytic framework, the Competition Bureau doesn't seem likely to oppose this. After all, unless one can quantify the innovation that an about-to-get-merged player would bring to the market -- a virtual impossibility -- less players means lower prices under industrial-economics-du-jour. Cases in point: the wireless and Internet access markets, both of which have pretty much expunged themselves of non-incumbents, For Montrealers particularly, though, you have to wonder. Re: Re: Bell Makes Small, but Strategically Key, Acquisition
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Anonymous
on Wed 03 Aug 2005 09:45 AM EDT | Permanent Link
A little different. Gaz Metropolitan may have had an ownership position in VDN, but I am fairly certain that it does not have a fibre network in place. Electical utilities typically do, and remain a competitive threat to the likes of Bell Canada et. al...
Re: Bell Makes Small, but Strategically Key, Acquisition
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bda
on Wed 03 Aug 2005 10:58 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
Not all that different, I think. Gaz Metropolitain does indeed have a fibre network in place (journalists: Luc Sicotte is your guy). The tie-up with VDN was to help market and fill it with commercial traffic.
Gas networks use equipment and get metered, so I suppose they need signalling just as electric ones do. I don't know the history of Gaz Met's fibre, though, so can't say what the similarities & differences are. What we do know is that Gaz Met has rights-of-way and underground ducts covering all of Montreal and a number of other Quebec cities. Philip Gale has a presentation on all of this from the last UTC Canada conference (scroll down to Wed 9:15, "UTelco Case Studies"). Members only, though, and I'm not. Re: Bell Makes Small, but Strategically Key, Acquisition
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