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NEW Wholesale residential high-speed access services150;CBB

JF did a series of tweets on this earlier comparing costs (only editing was fixing spelling mistakes)

#CRTC 2012-636 on CBB change fees may be first one with new transparency rules.. Markup 30% confirmed.

#CRTC decision 2012-636 on CBB changes: old Videotron: $617 for each link. New : $411 for first, $299 for subsequent.

#CRTC decision 2012-636 For Bell Canada: old CBB change fee: $285 per link. New one: $305.49 subsequent ones: $139.54

#CRTC 202-636 For small ISPs with only 1 Bell link. change fee goes from $285 to $305. For multiple links rate is lower.

#CRTC 2012-636 Commission orders Bell (and others) to join the 21st century and provide 10gigE links to ISPs who need them.
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Are you kidding? There are a ton of important changes here.

Firstly, the CRTC has set a maximum amount of time that incumbents are allowed to take for capacity increases, so incumbents can no longer drag their feet for months and months with no promised install date in site. Non-complex requests are now required to be completed within 15 business days, and complex requests within 60 business days. Rogers current rule about "requests must come in by the first day of the preceding month" was ruled arbitrary and no longer permitted.

This means that, even in the worst case of a "complex" order, it must fit within a fixed period. 60 business days is still about 3 months, but it's a MAXIMUM of 3 months, so an indy ISP can plan based on a known fixed schedule instead of Rogers/Bell's current "We'll get to it eventually, 6 months from now."

The other big news is the 10GigE mandatory access. Some providers already offered 10GigE access, like Videotron. Others, like Bell, flat out refused to do so, leading to scenarios where a company like TekSavvy has something like 80 individual connections to manage and balance. The CRTC's order now requires Bell to offer 10GigE by filing tariffs when the service is requested, which will enormously simplify balancing for wholesale ISPs, leading to a substantially increased quality of service for end-users.
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So who will be the first to drop their prices?

Who will be the first to say they are keeping all cost savings and not passing it onto their beloved customers?

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Love this gem:

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69. However, the Commission notes that Cogeco’s cost study included supplemental costs associated with spares in the event of a failure, and that a higher level of spares was assumed in their cost study for wholesale services than the level that the company maintains for its own retail services. The Commission considers that this in inappropriate, and that the costs are therefore inflated. The Commission determines that it would be appropriate for Cogeco to apply the same level of spares as it uses in its network for its retail services.

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Rogers did the same thing.

Appendix

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Table 1
#9
Commission adjustment
Exclude these costs

Rationale for adjustment
Refer to paragraphs 29 and 31. Documentation and filing activities should already be included in other CSG activities, not as a separate and distinct activity.

Table 2
#10
Commission adjustment
Calculate proposed time estimates by assuming 1.5 interfaces per order on average, assume proposed costs are order-driven, and reduce calculated time estimate by 60%.

#13
Commission adjustment
Calculate proposed time estimates by assuming 1.5 interfaces per order on average and reduce recalculated total time estimate by 73%

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Cogeco PR Man

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Don't forget MTS, which was a few hundred bucks per 100 megabit :P
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