Higher speeds for smaller Canadian ISPs
p2pnet view Freedom | P2P:- TekSavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault (right) isn’t overly impressed by the CRTC decision that Canada’s big telecom carriers must now give smaller ISPs access to their high-speed fiber networks at the same speed they offer to their own customers.
This “equal speeds decision is good for today, but future investments and our ability to innovate/differentiate are still hampered with the denial of adsl-co”, Gaudrault told p2pnet.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ruling hasn’t pleased the monopoly companies either, despite the fact they can charge a 10% mark-up for providing the smaller ISPs with speed boosts
The mark-up “will not apply to access to existing Internet services, which the carriers, such as BCE Inc’s BCE.TO Bell Canada and Telus Corp, must continue to provide to the smaller Internet service providers (ISPs), the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said”, according to Reuters, which has CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein stating:
“Requiring these companies to provide access to their networks will lead to more opportunities for competition in retail Internet services and better serve consumers.”
The likes of Bell, Rogers and Telusa could “throttle” third-party services, by slowing them down or limiting downloads, notes the story, going on:
“The established carriers, which also include MTS Allstream, appealed a similar CRTC decision in 2009, saying they spend significant portions of their profits on expanding their networks and should not have to share expensive fiber cable with competitors at wholesale costs.”
The CRTC “also said that the country’s big cable companies must make it easier for the ISPs to gain access their networks to offer their services”, Reuters adds.
… and identi.ca
Reuters – Canada’s small Internet providers get higher speed, August 30, 2010
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August 31st, 2010 at 11:59 am
Teksavvy and the other wholesalers need facilities right at the CO in order to compete and provide services and innovative services that are unaffected by what Bell et al. do to people’s communications. Though this is a win, I fully expect UBB to now be given to the big telco’s on a silver platter plus more, and these wholesalers won’t be able to provide another that distinguishes them from the likes of Bell et al.
August 31st, 2010 at 1:51 pm
@RW “hese wholesalers won’t be able to provide another that distinguishes them from the likes of Bell et al.” performance wise maybe not, but Teksavvy definitely kick Bell’s but in the Customer Service side of things. And once those who complain about Bell realize Teksavvy has better customer service, more customers will switch.
I did! I was a former Bell res-tech and used to support them despite hearing the complaints of others, until their customer “service” was very rude to me. There’s no chance I’ll ever go back to Bell.
August 31st, 2010 at 2:01 pm
I think there is a deeper problem happening already, and more to come. “Customer service” bounces back to bell one way or another. No matter what, Teksavvy goes through Bell for “customer service”.