At least the community won the funding. Out where my company operates (eastern Ontario), the province just gifted C$483 million to the incumbent in a program (AHSIP - see link below) that was structured such a way that it was impossible for smaller carriers to participating in the reverse auction.
What most people don't know is that the CRTC is practically a court. This means that if information is not put on the record, then it effectively doesn't exist. Time and time again, I have seen things happen that the CRTC probably knows next to nothing about simply because nobody has ever told them.
Take subdivision builders as an example. I know of at least 2 specific instances where the incumbent quoted the builders costs of $500,000 and $600,000 to provide internet services. Guess what? The builders pay those amounts as a cost of doing business.
Bonus: I have documentation of one of the residents of one of those subdivisions who received the pleasant gift of having their home phone + internet + TV bill go from ~$180 per month to ~$281 per month earlier this summer. Yes, a company that built FTTH assets for an out of pocket cost of <$0 feels that it is appropriate to raise bills by $101 per month just because they can. Multiply that by 50 homes in one subdivision and you're talking $60k per year in increased profits just because they can.
The market is broken, and intervention is required. I just hope people do the right thing once all the damning proof that things are broken is on the public record.
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Having the CRTC effectively being a revolving door of Bell / Rogers executives has its advantages.
Remember things like this: https://mobilesyrup.com/2022/02/02/crtc-chair-ian-scott-spea...
Given the governments "mandate" to lower our costs (or so they claim) one would think the best way to do this would be to support them financially.
Yet when push-comes-to-shove, They shovel money Bells' way?
The regulatory body in canada is basically toothless, Rogers - Two major outages and a massive impact to everyone and what is the end result?
Take subdivision builders as an example. I know of at least 2 specific instances where the incumbent quoted the builders costs of $500,000 and $600,000 to provide internet services. Guess what? The builders pay those amounts as a cost of doing business.
Bonus: I have documentation of one of the residents of one of those subdivisions who received the pleasant gift of having their home phone + internet + TV bill go from ~$180 per month to ~$281 per month earlier this summer. Yes, a company that built FTTH assets for an out of pocket cost of <$0 feels that it is appropriate to raise bills by $101 per month just because they can. Multiply that by 50 homes in one subdivision and you're talking $60k per year in increased profits just because they can.
The market is broken, and intervention is required. I just hope people do the right thing once all the damning proof that things are broken is on the public record.