For a few months now, TELUS has been promoting a petition that they want you to sign so that you can push for better choice when it comes to Internet choice in Ontario and Quebec. Now I covered their Internet offering here and at the time I wasn’t impressed. And to be fair to TELUS, more choice and more options are a good thing. But a group called The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) are pointing out that TELUS are one of the “big three” telcos in Canada. And as such don’t need “loopholes”. They argue that TELUS isn’t telling the whole story when it comes to this petition. Regulated wholesale access is meant to remove barriers for local and regional carriers so they can bring additional competition to Canada’s broadband market. It was not intended to help Canada’s Big Three dominant telecom companies from growing even larger. They also argue that the CRTC must act and close this loophole.
The organization has set up this website that goes into the issue more: www.breakfreefromthebigthree.ca
My take on this is as follows. When TELUS first popped up with this campaign, I found it to be as the kids say “sus” or suspect for the reasons that CNOC points out above. So I didn’t report on it. CNOC today has pretty much validated my thinking. Canadians do want more choice. Not just in Internet access, but in all telco services. The TELUS argument really doesn’t advance that goal in my mind. Thus I would argue that Canadians should continue to press politicians to enact real change to get real competition in the Canadian telco space.
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CNOC Argues That TELUS Doesn’t Need Loopholes When It Comes To Providing Internet Access
For a few months now, TELUS has been promoting a petition that they want you to sign so that you can push for better choice when it comes to Internet choice in Ontario and Quebec. Now I covered their Internet offering here and at the time I wasn’t impressed. And to be fair to TELUS, more choice and more options are a good thing. But a group called The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) are pointing out that TELUS are one of the “big three” telcos in Canada. And as such don’t need “loopholes”. They argue that TELUS isn’t telling the whole story when it comes to this petition. Regulated wholesale access is meant to remove barriers for local and regional carriers so they can bring additional competition to Canada’s broadband market. It was not intended to help Canada’s Big Three dominant telecom companies from growing even larger. They also argue that the CRTC must act and close this loophole.
The organization has set up this website that goes into the issue more: www.breakfreefromthebigthree.ca
My take on this is as follows. When TELUS first popped up with this campaign, I found it to be as the kids say “sus” or suspect for the reasons that CNOC points out above. So I didn’t report on it. CNOC today has pretty much validated my thinking. Canadians do want more choice. Not just in Internet access, but in all telco services. The TELUS argument really doesn’t advance that goal in my mind. Thus I would argue that Canadians should continue to press politicians to enact real change to get real competition in the Canadian telco space.
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