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That's somewhat similar to what happened in the US during the initial timeframe of DSL. Regional Bell says your DSL is $60-120/month. Your local ISP buys a ci

by oogali 4y ago

That's somewhat similar to what happened in the US during the initial timeframe of DSL. Regional Bell says your DSL is $60-120/month. Your local ISP buys a circuit to a DSL aggregator (Covad, Northpoint, Rhythms, etc) and starts offering DSL for $50/month (their cost was $25-30/month). After increase in customers, regional Bell says "we're offering $29.95/month for 6 months to new customers". ISPs nationwide start losing thousands of customers. One by one, DSL aggregators start to go out of business which means ISP have no DSL connectivity and can't sell DSL anymore. DSL is dead from anyone but regional Bell.

throwaway4aday 4y ago
Them's anti-competitive practices for ya'
bcrl 4y ago
Here in Canada the CRTC ordered incumbents to file tariffs and phase II cost studies for aggregated FTTP a few weeks ago by April 23rd. That is in part due to the new CRTC chairperson and the new policy directive that came into effect early in February. The CRTC quickly rejected the incumbents' "woe is us, we can't do that" letters last week. The 6 largest Canadian independent ISPs sold out to the large industry players over the past year in large part because they've hemorrhaged customers over the past 5 years without access to FTTP facilities. The regulatory problem being faced now is that competition has been almost completely gutted and now needs to be rebuilt.
- vic-traill 4y ago
  A bit of backstory: Ian Scott, former chairperson of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), allegedly held solo/ex parte meetings with Incumbents while a review of a 2019 CRTC decision that reduced fees the big telecoms would be able to charge smaller internet service providers for access to their broadband networks, was underway [0]. That 2019 decision was reversed in 2021. [0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-crtc-chair-ian-scott-set-to-leave-behind-a-deeply-divided-telecom/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-crtc-chair-...

by oogali 4y ago

throwaway4aday 4y ago

Them's anti-competitive practices for ya'

bcrl 4y ago

Here in Canada the CRTC ordered incumbents to file tariffs and phase II cost studies for aggregated FTTP a few weeks ago by April 23rd. That is in part due to the new CRTC chairperson and the new policy directive that came into effect early in February. The CRTC quickly rejected the incumbents' "woe is us, we can't do that" letters last week. The 6 largest Canadian independent ISPs sold out to the large industry players over the past year in large part because they've hemorrhaged customers over the past 5 years without access to FTTP facilities. The regulatory problem being faced now is that competition has been almost completely gutted and now needs to be rebuilt.

vic-traill 4y ago
A bit of backstory: Ian Scott, former chairperson of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), allegedly held solo/ex parte meetings with Incumbents while a review of a 2019 CRTC decision that reduced fees the big telecoms would be able to charge smaller internet service providers for access to their broadband networks, was underway [0]. That 2019 decision was reversed in 2021. [0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-crtc-chair-ian-scott-set-to-leave-behind-a-deeply-divided-telecom/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-crtc-chair-...