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Industry committee The general principle is simply that it should not be below cost. I think everybody would understand that. It should generate some form of reasonable level of return for those who made the investment to put that network and infrastructure in place.
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Dean Prevost
Industry committee Interestingly, we never talk about the cost per unit. The cost per unit is actually falling rapidly. What's happening in Canada, as the other witness just said, is that costs are rising and the unit usage is rising, yet our price per unit has been falling rapidly. This is typical
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Dean Prevost
Industry committee Fundamentally, telecom is an industry that needs density. The economics of telecom are very simple: The more people you have in an area, the less costly and the easier it is to serve them, period, full stop. That plays out in a country of our size, with such low density. It makes
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Dean Prevost
Industry committee Maybe I could give a little bit of context. We're focused on the 5G space, which, as you know, is new technology being deployed across the world now for wireless, bringing speeds and capacities and coverage that we haven't seen prior. We've been using that as an anchor point for
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Dean Prevost
Industry committee We would agree with that comment. Our organization exists across this country, and as we think about that time when we return to work—hopefully, reasonably and safely soon—with 26,000 employees, we need to think about how we do that. That will lead to a very different way in whic
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Dean Prevost
Industry committee Is it complicated? Exactly, yes it is.
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Dean Prevost
Industry committee Thank you, Madam Chair, and welcome, everyone. Good afternoon. I am Dean Prevost, president, Rogers for Business, at Rogers Communications. I am joining you today from Calgary. With me in Toronto is my colleague David Watt, senior vice-president, regulatory, at Rogers. We apprec
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Dean Prevost