This article seems to imply that the government has no idea what the current state of VoIP is (big surprise).
<snip>'This, to our way of thinking, is an encouraging development,'' </snip> said Lawson Hunter, executive vice-president at Bell Canada. <snip>In May 2005, the CRTC ruled that big telephone companies could not use their financial might to undercut new companies offering new telephone services such as VoIP or telephone over cable lines. The ruling prevented incumbents from offering services to consumers below cost. By offering the services below cost the incumbents could force the smaller companies out of the market and then, in the absence of competition, raise the prices considerably.</snip> Another 'encouraging development' for big monopoly's to launch loss-leaders to gain market control. Already on a world scale Canada's telecommunications costs much more do to lack of competition (I would find my source/reference for this but I'm far to upset). <rhetorical>Who does the government think makes money when a VoIP customer calls a Bell subscriber? What ISP is the client using to make this phone call? Who does a 3rd party DSL provider pay in Ontario?</rhetorical> ''We issued the decision we did and the government looked at it and issued a different decision. It's their prerogative,'' said Denis Carmel, a spokesman for the CRTC. Yep, we certainly know what their "prerogative" is. The CRTC needs to grow a pair. Action? Count me in. Blaine Aldridge
