Operator: Thank you. The next question is from Batya Levi from UBS. Please go ahead.
Batya Levi: Great. A question on Media. Can you provide a bit more color on the proposed acquisition of OUTFRONT and how that would change the growth profile of the Media unit? And if we should think about any synergies that could come with that? Thank you.
Curtis Millen: Hi, Batya, thanks for the question. So OUTFRONT out-of-home, I mean we announced last week, obviously, we don’t have approvals yet. Expect to pick those up in first half of next year. I would say it’s a relatively small tuck-in acquisition, but it isn’t an actual growth area for our Media business. Transaction is accretive immediately, but again, quite small. I’d say the assets are complementary to ours, it allows us in our out-of-home footprint to be truly national. We will drive synergies there. There are some cost synergies, also some strategic benefits. But again, in terms of changing the overall trajectory, it’s not that big an impact.
Operator: Thank you. The next question is from Aravinda Galappatthige from Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead.
Aravinda Galappatthige: Good morning. Thanks for the taking the question. Mirko, I just wanted to go back to the comments you made in your prepared remarks about delivering stronger EBITDA growth through cost management and the efficiency initiatives that you’ve kind of outlined. How should we think of Bell’s broader digital transformation initiatives you talked about? Like where are you in that sort of — which innings are you in, I guess, is what I’m asking? Trying to get a sense of what we can expect in the future compared to sort of the periodic cost reductions you delivered in the past?
Mirko Bibic: Yes. So there are periodic cost reductions. We do — we’ve done in the past, including in June of this year, which allow you to change the cost structure. And then there are the types of initiatives that I teed up in my opening remarks, I think you’re asking about which both reduced your cost, but also kind of transform the way we operate and as Curtis mentioned, actually enhance the customer experience. So I can give you some examples that’s just to put a bit of more flesh on the bones. So we had — we did undertake working for the past little while on integrating multiple billing systems that we’ve had in our company down to one. So for example, on the — in the consumer segment, particularly in Ontario and Quebec, we’ve typically had five legacy billers, and we’ve collapsed those into one biller and then we’re starting to migrate customers from the old system to the new system.
And that will lead to consumer goodness that would be just one example. Another example is continuing to evolve our digital platforms and our self-serve apps, which are already rated best-in-class and we’ll continue to make those even more — even better and more intuitive for our customers. There’s real estate optimization, which we’ve talked about before. We’ve launched customer self-install, which we’ve — which we’ve improved over time and as more locations get actually physically connected to fiber, it increases the number of eligible homes to which we can offer self-install. Of course, with the expansion of fiber, there’s the copper decommissioning journey that we’ve talked about. It’s things like that. And then the hard periodic blocking and tackling like streamlining sponsorships, discretionary expense management, vendor consolidation.
All of these things are the things we’re going to do to ensure that we can continue to deliver longer-term margin expansion. And of course, the whole transition to the cloud. We are — we announced our Google Cloud and AWS deals about three years ago and a significant portion of those deals is moving some of our own workloads to the cloud, which will create some efficiencies for us and some customer service improvements. I mean I’ll stop there. I don’t want to give you a full laundry list. But I think those six, seven, eight items give you a sense.
Operator: Thank you. Our next question is from Simon Flannery from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.
