RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: TV technology and signal shoppDibah42: I believe the take away from Beave's suggestion was that hacking or gaming cable/wireless services is difficult.
This technology is changing quickly. Consumers seem willing to adopt early and pay. The CRTC will attempt to staunch one uncompetitive practice after another (see the recent news on Quebecor's TVA content) but the variety and complexity of the services keeps growing. That suggests that firms will retain pricing power.
Average revenues per household unit (ARPU) have declined, especially for Rogers but they are still strong and seem destined to remain relatively high. Rogers, incidentally, is cheaper now than it has been in sometime and yet the company is probably more cash-rich than any other Canadian cable/wireless provider. I bought a few at $34 1/2 a few weeks ago and will likely buy more if the share price were to dip towards $30. Some kind of hard line to consumers' homes will stay in fashion.
I'm still surprised that BCE trades at a 5 1/2% yield and not lower. It seems that every time the Globe and Mail publishes a story on blue-chip this or dividend-paying that, that BCE pays among the highest dividends on the list.
Dibah42: The flowers are starting to bloom here on the wacky, wet Pacific coast. But then, this is a most fine time of the year in the Republic. Where are you? Jo'burg? Cape? On the beach in the Transkei? Wish I was hiking in the Drakensburg mountains or West Cape province. Sigh.