tertech
join:2008-04-12
Ottawa, ON
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May 10th, @09:48AM
| reply to Johnncanuk
Re: How is this a "Network Neutrality" debate/protest?
said by Johnncanuk :
nobody is willing to invest heavily enough to be competitive without using another providers assets.
Whose assets? I kinda recall the Canadian taxpayer funding those assets and entrusting them to Bell to maintain. In exchange for their services, Bell had a legislated monopoly for years. Now suddenly the infrastructure is theirs? |
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Johnnycanuk
@bell.ca
| Definitely agree for the copper loop. The internet infrastructure, such as DSLAM, Core routing equipment, etc. was not. It was built on Bell Nexxia's dime and the return on investment flows through Sympatico. The argument could be made that wireline dollars funded that, but you could also argue that it was built after the CRTC opened up the market to competition. |
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tertech
join:2008-04-12
Ottawa, ON
| said by Johnnycanuk :
It was built on Bell Nexxia's dime and the return on investment flows through Sympatico.
R.O.I. also flows through the $20/mo/customer that the 3rd party ISPs pay Bell for the leasing of those DSLAMS, core routing equipment, etc. I'm just guessing here, but I could imagine that more revenue is generated through just providing that leased pipe than would be generated by a Sympatico customer, given the additional overhead of Internet access and individual billing accounts. |
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Sean
The Great Divide
join:2004-01-23
Richmond Hil
 ·Bell Sympatico
| reply to Johnnycanuk
said by Johnnycanuk :
Definitely agree for the copper loop. The internet infrastructure, such as DSLAM, Core routing equipment, etc. was not. It was built on Bell Nexxia's dime and the return on investment flows through Sympatico. The argument could be made that wireline dollars funded that, but you could also argue that it was built after the CRTC opened up the market to competition.
Are you fuckin stupid?
Where did the "return on the dime" come from? Nothing would have happened without consumer tax dollars. They would not have the network to run their DSLAMs on without the network.
You can't seperate it. THEY MADE MONEY BECAUSE WE LET THEM. Just because they reinvest those profits, does not mean those profits were not the result of tax payer money. |
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