Toronto wasn't built with fibre optics cables all ready to go..
and the city just imposed a charge on digging up roads and such in the
city to access things. Not to mention the taxes and finding a kid who
doesn't mind climbing a pole or crawling into a manhole at -20 in
Canada. There is a lot of little factors at work.
On 10-12-22 10:09 AM, Stephan Monette wrote:
Has anyone in the group installed their own DSLAMs to provide DSL
services and could comment on pricing to do so?
I suspect the cost of internet bandwidth is pretty low. The cost is
probably on deploying last mile access that is expansive. And then
there's maintenance of copper loops,....
My point is I don't think the cost of bandwidth is high, but the cost
to deliver it is very high in Canada considering all the distance we
need to cover to connect everyone. Our cities are not as dense as
Asian cities or European cities.
Don't take my words on it, but I would like to see someone who has the
experience in this field to comment on the cost to deploy high speed
access.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Stephan Monette
Unlimitel Inc.
Tel.: 1-877-464-6638
Fax: (613) 482-1077
On 2010-12-22, at 9:56 AM, Henry Coleman wrote:
> Okay, well perhaps I was a little too hard on the CRTC but the limited
> amount of competition in this industry is the main reason we don't
have low
> cost bandwidth and services that give the consumer what the want.
> Henry
>
> n Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Bruce N <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I think Cogeco is the only provider who comes close to what you
might want
>> but they operate more to the west of Toronto (I mean cities west of
>> Toronto).
>> 50Mbps download - Upload unknown - I haven't tested it though but $99
>> sounds fine.
>>
http://www.cogeco.ca/cable/on/en/residential/internet/hsi/explore_hsi.html
>>
>>
>> -Bruce
>>
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:51:10 -0600
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Asterisk & 1 Gigabit Internet.
>>>
>>> The root problem is lack of competition. We have no competition
>>> because under our foreign ownership regime, Canada does not allow any.
>>>
>>>> Unfortunately the CRTC are not helping matters, their board
consists of
>> ex Bell and Cable people who are very conservative; to the point of
choking
>> off any competition before is viable.
>>>
>>> I'm not a big fan of the CRTC for a lot of reasons but on this
>>> particular issue I always feel I have to defend them. The fact is, the
>>> CRTC was taking steps to increase competition and one of the first
>>> things the Conservatives did when they came to power in 2007 was order
>>> them to stop.
>>>
>>> Here is a nice little article in an archive that explains just how
>>> ticked off the bureaucrats at the CRTC were at the Conservatives
>>> (conform or quit):
>>>
>>>
>>
http://www.pugetsoundradio.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?v-print/m-1170784107/
>>>
>>> And an original story from the CBC that explains what the government
>>> did and how happy the incumbents were:
>>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2006/06/13/crtc.html
>>>
>>> The Conservatives have also not lifted the foreign ownership
>>> restrictions in Telecom despite several bi-partisan reports that
>>> recommended they do so. As recently as this November, Tony Clement
>>> announced they would not be allowing competition (foreign owned
>>> companies) in Canadian Telecom any time soon.
>>>
>>> So on this one, it's squarely in the hands of the politicians, not the
>> CRTC.
>>>
>>> Not to promote my own blog on this list but I've written extensively
>>> on competition, deregulation and the CRTC including a whole post on
>>> the favorite Canadian sport of bashing the CRTC for everything:
>>>
>>>
>>
http://www.johnlange.ca/2008/07/16/apparently-the-crtc-is-to-blame-for-everything/
>>>
>>> --
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>>> www.johnlange.ca
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