said by InvalidError:said by Chuck Carlso :
Correction the Canadian taxpayers paid for Bell's network and infrastructure.
Taxpayers subsidized the ubiquitous and affordable phone service for all as a mandated essential service long before the IP protocol's inception. Very little of the infrastructure from those days would be usable to deliver xDSL; nearly everything had to be rebuilt over the past 15 years specifically for that and completely off Bell's own dime.
However, Bell's dime was generated using infrastructure that was subsidized by our pennies. Without our pennis, Bell might only have a nickel at this point. 
