said by MaynardKrebs:What you had suggested still falls under the Industry Canada umbrella. Maybe you're right....then you get into interdepartmental budget battles - who pays for what in audits out of which budget. That's usually a recipe for paralysis in getting anything done.
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Or maybe just hire BT or Deutsche Telekom as an expert outsider to do all the audits.
Either way...
By time it reaches the CRTC it should probably structured as follows:
Bell is filing X in order to Y done. Our independent telecom auditor says that X is or isn't true, so decide accordingly.
It's that simple... that way, when they roll out puff pieces about congestion, Bit Torrent or whatever, they can't get stuff by providing false information.
In the end a price hike should be just that... not a deterrent to protect legacy services or keep ideological control over what gets done on the infrastructure.