Comment Re:Verizon wasn't the ISP. (Score 1) 721
It doesn't make much sense, since legally there wasn't much risk to Verizon, only politically and Public Relations wise.
If this is truely Layer2 ISP side I know here in the USA, an ISP is not under any obligation to sell its services to anyone even if they are the only L2 or L3 provider in the area, unless they had a special deal with the government forbidding anyone else to build there (ie: in the US MCI (Verizon Business) has no such deal with the government or Sprint or Level3 or Qwest, etc. Now cable companies currently do and so do telephone companies for POTS telephone service, although this is a bit muddy these days, and with VoIP this is going to change shortly. If they did have an exclusivity clause to be a layer 2 provider, then the Canadian government should step in although I did not see that stated in the article. If they don't then the Canadian people should make them. If neither of them step in then thats life, it sucks, move on. Crappy things happen, they always will, you either stand up to them or live with them.
If this is truely Layer2 ISP side I know here in the USA, an ISP is not under any obligation to sell its services to anyone even if they are the only L2 or L3 provider in the area, unless they had a special deal with the government forbidding anyone else to build there (ie: in the US MCI (Verizon Business) has no such deal with the government or Sprint or Level3 or Qwest, etc. Now cable companies currently do and so do telephone companies for POTS telephone service, although this is a bit muddy these days, and with VoIP this is going to change shortly. If they did have an exclusivity clause to be a layer 2 provider, then the Canadian government should step in although I did not see that stated in the article. If they don't then the Canadian people should make them. If neither of them step in then thats life, it sucks, move on. Crappy things happen, they always will, you either stand up to them or live with them.
