scary things at CRTC

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:09:46PM -0400, 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.

If the rates they want to charge are reasonable, then perhaps that is
a perfectly sensible thing to do.

> 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.

As if they are going to do it with a monopoly either.

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Len Sorensen
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