scary things at CRTC

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

I read this message on the Ontario Asterisk users group mailing list:
  http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-GaisZHhRk3c@public.gmane.org/msg08825.html

I was going to forward it to this list but it has a dumb notice on the 
bottom that warns you against even reading it if you were not sent it.


Summary:

(1) The ILECs (think: Bell Canada in our area) want to keep
    higher-speed ADSL service for their own end-users and not allow
    resellers to be able to sell it.  CRTC ruled against them so they
    are appealing to the cabinet ("Governor in Council").

(2) They want to charge resellers for monthly transit of over 60GB for
    each customer.

They want to hang onto / reacquire their monopoly position.  This is
to deal with future things like TV over IP.

They argue/threaten that without the monopoly, they won't build out
FTTN (Fibre to the node) beyond a few big cities.
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