Covering the Internet based when they're loaded

Here's an instructive bit of information about the state of the Internet in Canada courtesy of the Globe and Mail. Apparently Rogers and Bell are squaring off for a fight [This is news? Did anybody tell Telus? ed.] in the Internet world. They have big U.S. partners: Yahoo! with Rogers and Microsoft (MSN) with Bell. Here's the run-down:

• Yahoo! will offer "uniquely Canadian" content to Roger's subscribers;
  
• MSN and Bell will merge their Canadian and Sympatico portals into a single high-power site
  
• Sympatico Music Store will be part of the merged site;
  
• Roger's remains focused on speed first with content as a good add-on (because cable is faster);
  
• Bell is focused on content and services (because it's high-speed offering is slower);
  
• both companies forget that it's a big Internet world out there, and all but the uninitiated and craven stick to the portals that are defaulted into the browser provided by the service provider.

Posted by Grayson at March 17, 2004 07:44 AM