
Shaw Sues Novus For Defamation – For pointing out Shaw engaged in predatory pricing…
August 25th, 2009 admin

Canadian Cable operator Shaw recently dropped a pricing bomb on Vancouver, offering 15Mbps broadband, 200 channels of TV, or voice service for about $9 US for each service . It’s an unheard of deal, and Shaw is clearly taking a loss in the city in order to crush Novus Entertainment , a local FTTH operator. As we noted in July , Novus responded with a fairly smart ad campaign ( Twitter , Facebook , and blogs ) aimed at informing Shaw customers outside of Vancouver of the deal they were missing, and urging them to call in to complain
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