The Free Press: Bell MTS Smart Home service offloaded in alarm deal

The home security industry has grown increasingly competitive with the arrival of self-monitoring equipment, said Wenlong Yuan, the University of Manitoba’s Stu Clark Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

“We’ve started to use all these kinds of cameras for monitoring,” he added.

It’s possible BCE wasn’t seeing a sufficient future or profit in the business, leading them to sell, he speculated. Also, services like Bell MTS’s Smart Home diverge from the traditional phone and internet offerings Bell provides, he noted, highlighting BCE’s stated reasoning.

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