Cord cutting is on the rise in Canada, and that shouldn’t be a surprise given our history as a country at the forefront of communications technology. A study released last fall by an Ottawa-based consulting firmand reported in the Huffington Post estimated Canadians were cutting their cable and satellite TV subscriptions at a rate seven times higher than the year before. The study estimates service providers lost 153,000 subscribers in the first nine months of last year, which is a tiny figure compared to the 11.5 million subscribers in Canada overall. But the number is growing, and there are thousands of you out there who are considering cutting the cord.
But cutting the cord can be daunting to the beginner, or even the experienced tech consumer. So in this episode of the Practical Geek, host Barry Link looks at the basics by interviewing Sean Whitehead of Kutko Canada, a business offering consultations with people who want to cut the cord. Whitehead talks about content available for cord cutters, devices, services available to Canadians, the money to be saved by going cable free, and whether the recent Netflix crackdown on VPNs will have any effect on his business.
