Reply to post: I really should stay out of this

I really should stay out of this

Since I work for one of them. Have for 18 years. <not on the customer provisioning/infrastructure side>.

I'm inclined to agree with much of what Trevor says here - the regulatory capture of the CRTC was complete quite some time ago. I DO question however the FTTH statements anyone makes here - there are damn few FTTH locations in Canada with any volume. Do the back haul math and you'll see that the ISP's are basically refusing to play in the sandbox as they'll only provision FTTH where they OWN the back haul. The network providers are getting almost 0 from the ISPs.

I'd be happy with a crapton of socialism applied to the internet pipes of Canada, since effectively, in a country that has some of the brightest engineers on that front, we're *more* than capable of having both wired internet and cellular internet that just plain delivers, technically the equal of anything in Europe, which seems to be setting the standards for internet connections.

But ever since the tea party poisoned the conservative party up here that word, socialism, causes random apoplectic seizures in about 12% of the population. The same 12% of the population that happily drives on the roads, uses the water in their taps and goes for walks in our parks.

The big three don't want to sell you internet, phone and cable, they want to sell you a pipe, and then microcharge you for every small service you put through that pipe, one thing at a time. It looks real good on paper, but its all about adding to the profits. If the back haul provisioning Network Carriers did that to the big three -- you'd not hear the end of it until your bill from the ISP ended up being worse than your mortgage.