Canada sets an example for a la carte pay-TV

[osu1991]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150327-column.html

Up in the Great White North, which would be Canada, telecom companies were told by government regulators the other day that they'll have to unbundle pay-TV packages by next year and switch to a la carte channels.

 

[Rolling Joe]

From the link:

"The proof, of course, will be in the pudding. We won't really know if this is a significant win for consumers until we see what happens to monthly bills under the Canadian system.

If the U.S. telecom industry is correct, those bills will skyrocket....."

Probably not. But......I doubt they will go down much either as this new mandate is not true a la carte but rather, a mix of a la carte and small bundles. Once done buying either the basic and a few bundles or basic and and individual channels and bundles, the end price (after STB fees and taxes) won't be much different than what they pay now.

 

[scarecrovv]

They will just find new and improved ways to screw us over.