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Chandler, AZ | reply to Romney2012
Re: It's sad... said by Romney2012:They drag down the profits of the companies that BUILT the infrastructure. this statement is wholly untrue when you look at the fact that we're discussing bell canada, who, much like its southern counterpart, did not build out the infrastructure out of its own pocket, rather it was a government-sponsored monopoly. it was the *people* that sponsored the cost of the network - hence where there is competitive access rules.
now, if you were actually interested in following canadian broadband policy (rather than just trolling), you would understand that bce is actually building out its own adsl2+ infrastructure. indie isps are not granted access to this since (gasp) bell built the network! bell has received a large roi from the sheer number of people using their services. however, since they have throttled (and now initiated ubb), they are simply trying to limit the threat of a clec triple play using iptv. this is a money-grab, pure and simple with the crtc acting like a bell puppet organization.
now, aside from a few select markets that verizon is overbuilding fios in att land, where do we have competition? i live in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the nation (we were 7th the last time i checked) and its either cox cable or qwest dsl (i can only get 7meg adsl, 2+ for me). qwest wants the same price for 7/896k dsl as i pay for my 15/1.5 cable line (since i don't want (a) a contract or (b) a pots line). however, prices have been steadily going up between the two, almost within months of each other.
but, i guess in your little world, you wouldn't see how bad we really are off in terms of net infrastructure
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