ROGERS MONOPOLY GETS CHIPPED AWAY
By Adnews Staff
Toronto-based Rogers Communications was dealt a blow last week when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission gave Pacific Place Cable a license to supply cable to a Vancouver condominium complex. Pacific Place is 80% owned by Concord Pacific Developments and 20% owned by BC Tel. The partnership has been battling Rogers for five years to offer TV programming at the complex, which is on the site of Vancouver's World Fair Expo of 1986. Pacific Place offers a 46-channel package for $31.56 a month, while Rogers charges $73.08 for the same services. Initially 800 customers will be served, but this will rise to 8,500 residents when the complex is completed by 2010.
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