Monday, January 01, 2007

 

CRTC: hurry up and wait

CRTCThe CRTC released a Circular before the holidays that announced the Commission's plan to delay consideration of two files because of the Minister's proposed variance of the Local Forbearance Decision.

A little history. On September 1, the CRTC started a review of its market share loss criteria for local forbearance under a Public Notice. The CRTC has suspended that proceeding as well as consideration of TELUS' application to substantially modify the quality of service criteria for forbearance.

Both proceedings could be rendered moot when the Minister's proposed variance comes into effect.

I found it interesting that the Minister's intervention, which was designed to accelerate forbearance, has the immediate effect of slowing down the CRTC's review of these two forbearance related files.

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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 1/01/2007 09:56:00 AM
Comments:
I think we are seeing a clashing of visions, between Bernier's pro-business take on telecom reform and the CRTC's traditional, middle of the road approach. I don't believe that a free market will always be in the consumer's best interests, but I also don't think that the CRTC is up to the task of regulating most of Canada's biggest Telecom issues.
Posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 7:36 AM, January 02, 2007
 
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