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A leaner Rogers means the price war is coming

This is the other face of new competition in Canadian Telecom. We’ve been hearing rumblings this would happen for a while now. Rogers is leaning-down and girding for the coming price war.

These winds of change (so to speak) come blowing not only from the impending entry of new entrants (Tony Clement’s particular Windy conundrum notwithstanding) but even more so from a MUCH more competitive landscape amongst the big boys now that Bell and Telus have gotten their HSPA on.

This next bit will come as some cold consolation to those laid off today. However, a newly competitive telecom sector will, in time, bring broad benefits to nearly every other sector of the Canadian economy. In the new and evermore digital economy, innovation is driven by connectivity. A faster pace of innovation as evidenced by falling prices and much greater availability of leading edge wireless devices and services (as has been a strong trend for the last 1-2 years) is at least one encouraging sign for driving economic growth in the years ahead.

LINK: Rogers laying off 900 as part of cost cuts

Previously on WirelessNorth.ca: Where oh where your wireless bill goes (as with soylent green it’s mostly people. And profits. At least circa 1998 it was)

^{ps. As always, WirelessNorth.ca is hiring aspiring telcom pundits and snarks (or any combination of the two). The pay, not so good though.}