What the Bell?

Noticed hundreds of Bell trucks cruising around your neighbourhood, doing all kinds of installations and working with what seems like private contractors on underground wiring and infrastructure?

If you haven’t, you’ve been out of country for the past 6 months because they have been BUSY!

I believe the seemingly innocuous activity comes with a plan.  I believe they’re working on installing tracking switches and other tracking mechanisms in advance of the launch of their new Internet viewing service that is designed to compete with Netflix.

My thoughts are that prior to these efforts, tracking downloads and other non-Bell activities were were relatively untraceable.  New hardware and tracking will allow Bell to single out users and shut them down, regardless of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that they use.

In other words, as Bell launches their new Netflix-copy media service, expect all competitors to be shut down.