The CRTC and Bell were the ones trying to force the independent ISPs to
charge their customers the same rates that Bell is.
Nobody cared that Bell wanted to implement usage based billing for their
own customers (except, maybe Bell's customers), the issue was that the
CRTC were trying to force others to do the same.
Nobody forced Bell or any other company to do anything, the stopthemeter
campain stopped the CRTC and Bell from dictating what other companies
could or could not do.
Bell, Rogers, Shaw, and Telus enjoy a last mile monopoly that they did
not pay for. They were either installed under heavy subsidies when they
were public corporations, or they were billed back to the developers of
new neighborhoods. These fees were then rolled in to the price of my
Lot, so in essence, I payed for the copper running to my house. I should
be able to decide who provides me service over them.
By allowing these 4 companies to dictate what the independents charge,
we would be allowing them to protect a Monopoly they did not earn.
Other nations that enjoy very high speeds for very low prices, (Japan,
France, etc..) the last mile infrastructure was nationalized in order to
foster competition. Competition = lower prices and better service.
Nobody can argue that lower prices and better competition exist in
Canada today.
thanks.
On 11-02-12 10:45 AM, Jesse Kline wrote:
You think government should restrict how Internet service providers
price their services because people might put eyeballs in corned beef?
Is that the "if government regulation is good in one area, then we
should regulate everything" argument?
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:14 PM, <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
No reason the government should be telling private businesses how to
run tehir business?
Lord!
DO you think there might be butchers who toss rats into the meat
grinder which makes hot dogs if it were legal for them to do it?
How about eye balls in cans of corned beef? A neighbour found part
of one in his sandwich.
What about glycol in wine?
What about melamine in milk?
If builders in this city could get away with leaving insulation out
of their houses do you think they might?
What about plastic plumbing pipes in contact with the flue of the
furnace? Or all the wiring in the basement of a house AND the
kitchen run off one breaker?
How about floor joists sitting with 1/4" of catch on the supporting
wall and we're talking about the joists which hold up the middle of
the living room floor where perhaps someone might want to place a
piano or where lots of people might gather for a party...
This is WITH regulations.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:26:30AM -0500, Jesse Kline wrote:
> <sarcasm>My god! Private, for-profit companies want to charge
customers
> based on the amount of resources they consume. What is this world
coming
> to?</sarcasm>
>
> I think this issue is fairly simple. There is no reason the
government
> should be telling companies how to run their businesses. I don't
like UBB,
> but I see no reason why companies should not be allowed to engage
in the
> practice. As with the net neutrality issue, the problem is a lack of
> competition, not a lack of regulation. There is obviously a
demand for
> unlimited Internet and, as the article said, smaller ISPs would
like to
> provide the service. We should be pushing policy makers to make
it easier
> for new ISPs to break into the market and to provide service that
utilizes
> their own infrastructure, instead of relying on the existing
companies and
> common carrier provisions. Here are a few ideas of what we can do:
> http://thesis.kline.ca/net-neutrality?start=4
>
> But the open media guys are not pushing for competition, because
they think
> the Internet should be a public good. Simply put, they hate private
> companies and look to the government to solve all their problems.
It is no
> wonder that the NDP is on the same side of the issue.
>
> Jesse
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