scary things at CRTC

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Not to mention they want Christian websites to give "equal time" to all 
other faiths.

Looks like the CRTC is giving us all the worst of the left /and/ the right.

Chris


D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 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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