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Comment Re:Confused (Score 1) 87

by fmenard123 on Thursday March 06, 2008 @11:39PM (#22672124) Attached to: Canadian Regulator CRTC Saves Independent ISPs

This is why I posted on Slashdot, because the conventional press doesn't seem to care (or understand?) about telecom issues. This newspaper article is right that fibre access will be forborne in 5 years, but that only matters for big businesses. For the residential user, that is until FTTH is built, telephone and coaxial wires are the only way out to the Internet. The CRTC decision will ensure that ISPs which are not owned by telephone and cable companies, will be able to continue to access the access facilities of the telephone and cable companies. This will assure Net Neutrality in Canada, by ensuring multiple paths to the Internet.

Canadian Regulator CRTC Saves Independent ISPs 87

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 06, 2008 @02:30PM from the if-only-it-could-happen-here dept.

fmenard123 writes "The Canadian telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, has affirmed in a decision released on March 3rd 2008 that DSL wholesale and Cable Modem wholesale will continue (PDF) until such time as a meaningful competitive source of supply of wholesale facilities develops. Aside from preserving the status-quo, the CRTC has also determined that unaggregated ADSL access (DSL wholesale for competitors who self-supply their facilities into telephone company central offices) is an essential service given the lack of unbundling for sub-loops. The CRTC ordered phone companies to re-price unaggregated DSL wholesale at forward-looking costs plus a mark-up of no more than 15%, opening the door for a significant reduction in the rates ISPs pay to the telephone companies for access to DSL wholesale. This decision has interesting implications for the US, in which the FCC was not able to overcome the legal attacks against its Computer II regulatory framework. Perhaps ISPs in the US need to look north to try to make their case again."

Submission + - Canadian Regulator CRTC saves idependant ISPs (crtc.gc.ca)

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on Thursday March 06, 2008 @09:01AM

fmenard123 writes: "The Canadian telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, has possibly thrown the largest stone while creating the smallest splash of water. Last year, under direction of the Canadian Parliament, the CRTC was directed to review all wholesale services with the objective of determining whether such form of competition should continue. The argument was that wholesale regulation created a disincentive for investment in facilities. The CRTC in a decision released on March 3rd 2008 (Decision 2008-17), has affirmed that DSL wholesale and Cable Modem wholesale will continue until such time as a meaningful competitive source of supply of wholesale facilities develops. Aside from preserving the status-quo, that is preserving wholesale as it currently exists for DSL and cable modem, the CRTC has also determined that unaggregated ADSL access, that is, DSL wholesale for competitors who self-supply their facilities into telephone company central offices, was an essential service given the lack of unbundling for subloops. The CRTC ordered phone companies to re-price unaggregated DSL wholesale at forward looking costs plus a mark-up of no more than 15%, opening the door for a significant reduction in the rates which ISPs pay to the telephone companies for access to DSL wholesale. This decision has interesting implications for the USA, in which the FCC was not able to overcome the legal attacks against its Computer II regulatory framework. Perhaps ISPs in the USA need to look north to try to make their case again?"

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