Guspaz
Guspaz
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| National Post: CAIP/wholesalers trying to suffocate Internet
»www.nationalpost.com/todays-pape···=1776165
That's the gist of the article, anyhow. They argue that CAIP and the wholesalers are trying to put so many burdens on Bell that it will overburden the "crowded pool". |
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CanerisErik
Caneris
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join:2007-10-03
Toronto, ON | So, who's going to start the libel lawsuit?  |
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justsomeguy
join:2007-10-08
London, ON | reply to Guspaz
Good article, although I'm sure it will enrage people here. |
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DR_JAY
join:2002-04-23
Verdun, QC | reply to Guspaz
Ugh... national post... |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC | reply to justsomeguy
Well, he *does* seem to ignore the fact that wholesalers just want access to the speeds they're already paying for. They pay per-megabit to Bell for the AHSSPI lines. |
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lorio
join:2007-10-24
Gatineau, QC
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Here's the way to contact, Terence Corcoran, the author of the article to express your concerns :
»www.nationalpost.com/contact/let···Corcoran
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El Quintron
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join:2008-04-28
Etobicoke, ON | I'll send him a "polite" note when I'm not as caffeinated or cranky. Right now I feel like telling him he's a paid ILEC shill that was raised in a tin can...
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Guspaz
Guspaz
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I sent him a note that tried to explain why the wholesalers were upset.
I ended my letter with this analogy:
If I pay to have a bottle of milk delivered to my doorstep every day, and the milkman suddenly only starts delivering once a week but still bills me for once a day, I'd be pretty upset! I wouldn't be getting the milk that I was paying for. |
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BonkersInc
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join:2008-09-05
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That article ignores the fact that we're not fighting for 'no traffic management' but instead we just want to know our money is being invested back in the network, and that if ITMP is necessary, it should be applied as-needed, not in a dictatorship-style overprotective manner... |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
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| said by BonkersInc  :That article ignores the fact that we're not fighting for 'no traffic management' but instead we just want to know our money is being invested back in the network, and that if ITMP is necessary, it should be applied as-needed, not in a dictatorship-style overprotective manner... You've overcomplicated the issue. Make it simpler. |
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BonkersInc
King of Lalaland
join:2008-09-05 | Ogg want fair. |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
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1 edit | reply to Guspaz
Not quite that simple 
These issues really need to be distilled into the simplest form such that the everyday Joe who does't know a megabit from a floppy disk can understand it. |
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pnjunction
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join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
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There is so much bias and fail in that article I don't know where to start.
It's a 'perfect candidate' for market resolution with two providers? How come Bell's offerings are different depending on what cable company they are ''competing with in the region? It's BS, they offer just enough to match the 'competition' and no more. In Ontario, both Bell and Rogers throttle. We are desperately lagging behind in the world. Look at competition go!
Also, on page 2 he talks about the CRTC "adding to other burdens it has already imposed on the industry". While I don't support the artists robbing fees from us, what does the stuff he mentions from the TV industry have to do with the internet? Edit: I think the main purpose of putting that in was to build anti-regulation sentiment.
The important connection between TV and internet industries is that they are run by the same companies who want to protect their TV businesses by nerfing the growth of the internet usage, not that they are both regulated.
What a hack. |
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El Quintron
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Etobicoke, ON
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| I don't know if I'd call him a hack as much as a paid shill...
I posted on the front page, with the friday morning links, the anti-open internet spin with in full force. I think this is paid opinion making, and its basically saying why can't the ILECs expand at their own pace and have the benefits "trickle down" to their customers?
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Thane_Bitter
join:2005-01-20
London, ON | reply to Guspaz
Read that, Terence Corcoran has a unique ability to ignore reason and promote only his selfserving logic. |
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Livadia
join:2007-12-18
Canada
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For those who do not know him: Terence Corcoran is the most 'laissez-faire economics' commentator as one can find. His prefect society would have been England of the 1800's.
Before his like-minded boss (who is on vacation in a prison right now for fraud) created National Post, he used to write for the 'Globe & Mail'. I often read his articles for a quick laugh. This man is unreal. I suppose that now that all his sermons lay in ruins (what with stimulus, GM government-owned, and so on and so on) he turned his attention to something that he is totally ignorant about.
Anyway, as someone commented earlier, his real beef is with the CRTC decision about fees for local programming. No, according to him, we should be free to buy the cheapest programs available. If they all are reduced to Springer show and '.... Idol' shows, so be it. Of course CBC should never get any state funds...
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El Quintron
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| said by Livadia :Of course CBC should never get any state funds... unless it starts spouting opinions I want to hear fixed it for ya... those guys are all the same.
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CanadianRipOff
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National Post is owned by Bell isn't it? |
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MaynardKrebs
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join:2009-06-17 | said by CanadianRipOff :
National Post is owned by Bell isn't it?
No. Canwest. |
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PXA
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Pretty much my sentiments exactly. This is the National Post, Canada's hardcore capitalist rag. The people reading this article and agreeing with it would already be thinking that what CAIP is doing is unreasonable. I guarantee you that this twit is not changing anyone's mind to Bell's side. That said, I also do plan to write and politely tell him what a third-rate hack he is. |
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