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Re: It's sad... said by Romney2012:You are in the mess you are in because of PAST CRTC policies that inhibited innovation and a ROI for coming out with enhanced infrastructure. CLECs and independent ISPs are the enemies of innovation. They drag down the profits of the companies that BUILT the infrastructure. Maybe if the CRTC was more like the US FCC in the past, companies in Canada would have invested in the improvement of the infrastructure. Truly spoken like someone with no idea what he's talking about beyond unfettered capitalism.
It's not the infrastructure that's the problem in Canada, it's exactly the kind of unfettered capitalism that you get so horny about that's the problem. Thanks to no robust regulation there is an effective cartel of ISPs in Canada offering similarly poor services at similarly high prices.
You appear to think that if you allow companies to do as they please they'll invest, generally they won't as there's no incentive to. Why bother to spend money on infrastructure when you can wring every last drop out of the existing infrastructure and collect the profits without the CapEx?
The only reason why Verizon et al have invested is because they want to keep up with the cable companies, that's it. Saying that though Verizon are the only one who is making the significant investment.
In Canada it's not such an issue, HSI services being expensive and restricted the relatively limited investment by BCE in remotes is more than enough. More amusing is that these remotes are limited to 16Mbit ADSL2+ services (Bell retail only).
In short do go away corporate shill, or alternately go and get a clue what you're talking about, it has always been the case that companies invest in infrastructure until it is required to preserve their market share and profits, which in your world of unfettered capitalism (Canada under the CRTC) isn't needed. Oh yes, the exception being when they get government money, just as Bell did to build the original plant.
Of course they are entitled to an ROI on their investment since, what they are not entitled to do is create an environment which preserves their retail domination and prevents other ISPs who rent their infrastructure from differentiating themselves.
Look at Canada's markets, services are expensive, capped, throttled, or all of the above. Virtually all products in Canada are bandwidth capped and expensive per GB with very little differentiation between the cable companies and the ILEC, so little differentiation it stinks of collusion. That's what your corporate nirvana produces. |
