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[ NNSquad ] Bell: Mobile's three streams should be voice, data, and hours of video


Starting on page 15 (towards the bottom) we see Bell suggesting a tripartite revenue stream - voice, data, and hours of video. It would be interesting to run the proposal through the ITMP framework to see how it might work out (and likely depend on whether prioritization was being given to some video services over others). Key section quoted below:

"Well from the Bell Mobility side they’ve taken the packages and we’ve seen this also somewhere else in Canada, a very 
intuitive way to do it, where the consumer knows they’re paying $5 a month for 10 hours.  I don’t think they would do it 
where they don’t know what’s happening on the data metering, and they won’t have a way to assess the usage.  So we 
actually see a third stream of revenue.  One’s the voice, the second is data usage, and the third is a number of hours of 
watching video.  So that’s how the model works we’re offering to sell it from Bell Media to the customers of Bell Media in a 
way that’s based pretty similar to what we see in the specialty TV model where there’s a fee paid to Bell Media for access 
to that content from the other wireless carriers."

Link: http://www.bce.ca/data/documents/reports/en/2011/q1/BCE_TRANSCRIPT_q1_11.pdf

Cheers,
Chris
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Christopher Parsons
Doctoral Candidate
Political Science, University of Victoria
http://www.christopher-parsons.com
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