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that's fair

Why should Bell invest billions in infrastructure and then have the gov't force them to sell access to others at cost. That would be a disservice to their stockholders and an extremely stupid action by their management team.
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reply to fAcEtIOUs
It's cost + 15%.If the competitors had access to the local loop then this would not be a problem.Its either this or unbundl the local loops like the EU did.We don't wanna be like the US and have just a bunch of monopolies,we want choice.

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reply to fAcEtIOUs
Why should Canada allow them to continue to operate in their country?

I say Canada should tell them they are sharing and they are going to continue to roll out the next generation network. And if they don't, then they will be stripped of their current network and will no longer be operating in Canada.

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reply to adisor19
Check your history books.

Bell only built parts of the network where the Feds gave them money to (ie: rural areas).

The rest of it was through the initial IPO and subsequent 130+ years of revenue.

reply to history lesson
Shill...

I'm sure Execs at Bell would love the Canadian public to swallow that one hook line and sinker.
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reply to adisor19
Seriously? Did you even bother using Google first before posting a reply before I bitch slap you in front of everyone?

Ok, if you insist:
Detailed history of Bell: »www.bce.ca/en/aboutbce/history/index.php

Copy of 1880 Federal Charter:
»www.bce.ca/en/aboutbce/history/index.php

"By the end of 1880, Sise had purchased the existing telephone interests in Canada, including those of The Dominion Telegraph Company and The Montreal Telegraph Company. The company offered telephone service in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba and had interests in British Columbia."

"The telephone's success rested on creating a network. In the spring of 1881, the Company constructed the first "long-distance" line in Canada between Toronto and Hamilton. The General Manager was so committed to the project that he advanced the funds from his personal savings to ensure its completion."

"Would-be competitors pounced on the article of the law requiring that all patented products must be manufactured in the country. Sise argued that he was complying with this provision. The government disagreed and on January 24, 1885, voided the Bell patent, ending the Company's exclusive right to manufacture and distribute the telephone."

Enjoy the full article.

Like I said before, the myth that Bell's network was built with taxpayer money is mostly false. I say mostly because in typical Fed fashion, when no one wants to provide a city with a service, they either create a Crown Corp or pay an existing company to provide the service instead. Which is what happened in some cities across Canada.

However, as you can see from the link I provided, Bell got it's initial funding from it's IPO and bought other phone companies in order to expand, then ended up selling all those outside Ontario and Quebec years later when they were strapped for cash.

I hope you enjoyed today's lesson. Class dismissed.

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The National Bell Telephone Company of Boston eventually took the patent off Melville Bell's hands. The company enlisted the aid of Hugh C. Baker, head of the Hamilton District Telegraph Company, to apply for a charter from the Canadian Parliament. On April 29, 1880, a special act of Parliament incorporated the Bell Telephone Company of Canada.

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In 1990, however, the CRTC ruled that companies could buy time on private telephone lines in bulk from the phone companies and resell it at a discount. Within two years, the resellers had captured two to four percent of the phone companies' long-distance business. In 1992 the CRTC was expected to institute even greater changes in the long-distance market, such as allowing companies to resell discount packages like WATS. Resellers, however, wanted the CRTC to go further and allow them to own their own lines, an idea Bell Canada was fighting. Canadian Business quoted Bell Chairman Jean Monty as saying that '[the presence of resale means Canada already enjoys] a workable balance between competition and monopoly.'

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As far as I know, to become Incorporated you still need some level of government to issue it, so your leap of faith between Bell getting a Charter issued by the Fed as an indication of being "funded" by the Fed is completely wrong.

And although Dominion Telegraph Co was a division of the Government at the time, Bell bought them after the fact.

You and others make it sound as if Bell was 100% funded and built it's network with taxpayer money which is a complete misnomer and false.

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reply to andyb
then starting building out your own company. MOT will sell you some Canopy devices to start doing that.

reply to El Quintron
Um because my tax dollars pay for that infrastructure

Um, no, customer dollars do.

and continue to pay for it by funding an agency

Um, no, telecom companies do.

that invetibly rules in favor of said company

Um, you do realize that this article is about Bell going to Cabinet to try and get the politicians to overturn a series of CRTC rulings against said company?