{"id":683846,"date":"2010-03-05T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:404043"},"modified":"2010-03-05T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T19:39:00","slug":"case-for-belus-strengthens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/683846","title":{"rendered":"Case for BELUS strengthens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greater foreign investment in Canada&#39;s telecom sector strengthens the case for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialpost.com\/markets\/company\/index.html?symbol=BCE&amp;id=96924\" >BCE Inc.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialpost.com\/markets\/company\/index.html?symbol=T&amp;id=35150\" >Telus Corp.<\/a> to merge, says Jeffrey Fan, Scotia Capital Markets analyst. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This could happen earlier than envisioned,&quot; Mr. Fan said in a note to clients. &quot;We believe BELUS would pose a threat to cables and we think cable<br \/>\nconsolidation (Rogers, Shaw, and Cogeco) should be strongly considered.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#39;s throne speech said it would allow more access to foreign investment in Canada&#39;s telecom space in order to improve competitiveness. Telecom stocks fell following the news, but have since rebounded.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Fan said that wireless new entrants like Wind Mobile, Public Mobile and Mobilicity will benefit most from greater access to foreign capital as they build out their networks.<\/p>\n<p>From an investment perspective, he said potential acquisition targets including Telus, Manitoba Telecom Services Inc., Cogeco Cable Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. stand to gain most.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dpett@nationalpost.com%20\">David Pett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=404043\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater foreign investment in Canada&#39;s telecom sector strengthens the case for BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. to merge, says Jeffrey Fan, Scotia Capital Markets analyst. &nbsp; &quot;This could happen earlier than envisioned,&quot; Mr. Fan said in a note to clients. &quot;We believe BELUS would pose a threat to cables and we think cable consolidation (Rogers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RTM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}