MaynardKrebs
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Re: Do Bell and Rogers have too much control on Canada?
said by dissapbell :
Answer is Yes.
But you should not create such topics. You make money on Bell Backbone. You did not help Canada with communication but Bell requiring billions of dollars. TS is always bashing Bell but they use Bell for most. Hypocrite.
It used to be (until the late 1970's - early 1980's) that a legitimate case could be made for having a monolithic wiring and services provider (ie. a traditional 'telephone' company).
However since that time the writing has been on the wall that what the country needs is a public or regulated neutral wiring provider to building premises. This is the 'natural monopoly' component of the telecommunications equation due the the costs of running wires and the headaches of acquiring rights-of-way either above or below ground from various levels of government or private landowners. This is the exact model that the natural gas system works on.
In the natural gas market you have companies that provide the long-distance transit, like TransCanada Pipelines (in telecom it's the likes of Peer1, et. al.), connecting to local natural monopolies (Union Gas, Enbridge). But here's where things differ - in the gas market, every producer has an unrestricted right to send their gas down the pipe to any end consumer without interference. Similarly each end consumer has the unrestricted right to purchase their gas from any supplier they choose. This is a true common carrier model with distinctive competition in the end-user space.
This is what the telecom market needs most desperately in the so-called 'last mile' space. |
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sbrook
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| disappbell, are you going to stop driving on your city's roads even though you may complain about them being full of potholes, poorly signposted, dangerous etc.? Of course not.
What TS and others are complaining about is really simple ... Bell doesn't provide the services they advertised, and attempting to subvert the terms of the services with the CRTC to almost make the existence of TS and other 3rd party ISPs pointless. |
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HeadSpinning
join:2005-05-29
Windsor, ON
| said by sbrook  : Bell doesn't provide the services they advertised, and attempting to subvert the terms of the services with the CRTC to almost make the existence of TS and other 3rd party ISPs pointless. If Bell really wants to make us independent ISPs pointless, they should simply provide excellent customer service, and reasonable prices - but we know that can never happen, so they take their approach instead. |
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