Freedom Mobile is launching in 50 cities across B.C. and Alberta as part of its parent company's aggressive expansion since acquiring the carrier last year.
  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    61·
    2 months ago

    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)
    • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      7·
      2 months ago

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

      • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
        5·
        2 months ago

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