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Originally Posted by CoryB
I have just grown tired of the snail's pace of tech rollouts from MTS. Other Canadian markets already have access to 4K programming on their cable systems and have access to lots of on-demand apps to stream content. MTS says they are looking into that and the one they finally launched took over two years of customer requests. MTS also has not done any significant investments in infrastructure upgrades which is going to be a real pain even in Winnipeg when most people start trying to stream Netflix, etc in 4K. On the wireless side MTS needed to outsource the upgrades to both HSPA and LTE. Not only that Winnipeg was so late getting LTE is was behind even some third tier cities in Canada.
About the only good thing MTS brings to the market is by having one of the big three wireless companies (Telus) with under 10% of the market share and poor network coverage it forces Telus to keep prices low which in turn force market giants MTS and Rogers to match.
I had grown tired of how MTS was basically draining every last nickel of profit from their customers before the deal was announced and had begun to call for changes BEFORE the BCE sale was announced. Do I think BCE will be better than MTS? I am not sure but cost aside it is going to be challenging for them to be much worse.
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I agree with you on everything you said. I didn't realize how behind MTS really was until I went out west and played around with Telus Optik TV. It integrates netflix and crave tv right into its set top box. Plus 4K offerings and modern guide and UI.
It seems like the only thing MTS is good at is offering a mediocre service at a moderate price. I would rather pay a bit more for better.
Also have you ever tried to call MTS after hours to get anything done? You can't even sign up for TV after hours.