The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Bell's CEO not happy with CRTC, what a surprise said no one.

**Posted by betaylored** February 6, 2025 9:48 pm

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2025/02/06/bell-ceo-slams-crtc-announces-further-slowdown-of-fibre-network-build/

Bell is slowing down their plans for growing their fibre network and directly blaming the CRTC.

Does Bell really think the CRTC will magically knuckle under.

Is there something else going on and this latest move is just a smokescreen.

Here's the article that partially prompted the smokescreen theory.
https://financialpost.com/telecom/bce-tops-estimates-but-weaker-year-ahead

Last edited by betaylored (February 6, 2025 11:04 pm)

**Posted by Skywave** February 7, 2025 7:29 am

It's stupid that they are cutting back fibre-to-the-home investment in Canada yet spending 4 billion (plus debt) to buy an American company thousands of kilometres away. Two years ago I was one of those forced to migrate to fibre by a date certain or lose my landline phone and internet services. But here's the rub. Bell is sitting on a time bomb with its twisted pair infrastructure. Much of it is buried, waterlogged, and targeted by moles. After every major rainstorm, a lot of customers lose service. Bell needs to continue with FTTH as quickly as possible. Stick to the knitting at home, Mirko. I give him another year and then he's history.

**Posted by Shorty Wave** February 7, 2025 8:57 am

Skywave wrote:
It's stupid that they are cutting back fibre-to-the-home investment in Canada yet spending 4 billion (plus debt) to buy an American company thousands of kilometres away. Two years ago I was one of those forced to migrate to fibre by a date certain or lose my landline phone and internet services. But here's the rub. Bell is sitting on a time bomb with its twisted pair infrastructure. Much of it is buried, waterlogged, and targeted by moles. After every major rainstorm, a lot of customers lose service. Bell needs to continue with FTTH as quickly as possible. Stick to the knitting at home, Mirko. I give him another year and then he's history.

I think there is more to this story as Bell just sold their stake in MLSE for $4.7B to Rogers, why would they let go of that cash cow? They’ve been busy selling off their media assets as well and still cutting staff. However, I’ve been very happy with my Bell Fibre service, I noticed the picture quality on my TV vastly improved when I switched from Rogers to Bell, so they’re doing something right still.