Videotron Wants Trudeau to Maintain Harper’s Telecom Policies

  • CEO Manon Brouillette says fourth carrier policy still needed
  • Quebec-based Videotron has about 800,000 wireless customers
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Justin Trudeau’s government should keep his conservative predecessor’s policy of promoting regional Canadian wireless competitors against giants like BCE Inc., said the chief executive officer of mobile-phone carrier Videotron.

The new government should also continue the previous administration’s push for lower prices for consumers by pressing for a fourth wireless carrier in each region, Manon Brouillette, who heads the unit of Montreal-based Quebecor Inc. said in a speech Wednesday at the Canadian Telecom Summit.