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by Swannie 5615 days ago
I don't follow your logic.

Bell cannot enter the TV market (one it's already in, albeit Satellite TV), because Netflix can't enter the ISP market?

I'll think you'll find that Netflix can enter that market if they so desire.

Bell are abusing a monopoly position? No, they are exploiting efficiencies of scale. Surely Rogers and Shaw, who provide cable TV and Internet are stiff competition in this area?!?

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The idea is that Bell is the 'gatekeeper' to the internet for their customers. By hiking up their internet rates to make it more expensive to do something like stream NetFlix while at the same time introducing their own competing product that is exempt from those charges it comes close to (and probably is) using their position in one market to leverage another. My contention is that ISPs and content-providers should be required to be separate because there are multiple conflicts of interest there.