BCE Inc. hikes dividend and plans new service to attract cord cutters as competition intensifies

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[ad_1] BCE Inc.’s bottom line took a hit from closing costs associated with buying Manitoba Telecom Services earlier this year, but the telecom giant’s otherwise consistent financial results pleased both analysts and shareholders at the annual general meeting on Wednesday. Bell, Canada’s largest telecommunications company, reported quarterly results hit analysts’ expectations despite intense competition from…

Television cord cutting hits record level in 2016 for Canada’s big providers: report

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[ad_1] A record numbers of customers cancelled their television subscriptions to Canada’s publicly traded TV providers last year, according to data from an Ottawa-based research firm. Approximately 202,000 TV subscribers cut their cable and satellite packages from seven of the largest providers in 2016, Boon Dog Professional Services reported this week. That’s between 30,000 and…

‘Best deal in town’: Rogers steeply discounts high-speed broadband to make up for ‘inferior’ TV offering, analyst says

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[ad_1] Rogers Communications Inc. introduced a “steep and extended discount” for a package with gigabit Internet and television, a move Barclays analyst Phillip Huang sees as a way for the cable giant to keep broadband customers given its “inferior” television product. Rogers is offering 1 gigabit per second Internet and 100 channels (including HBO) for…