Wind, Rogers, Telus among confirmed AWS-3, 2500 MHz auction bidders
OTTAWA – The participant list for Industry Canada’s upcoming AWS-3 and 2500 MHz auctions this spring is beginning to take shape. Among those who have confirmed to Cartt.ca that they […]
iPhone 6 and other new devices will smooth out double cohort effects, says Telus
WHISTLER – John Gossling, executive VP and CFO at Telus told an investors conference last week that high-end smartphones such as the iPhone 6 and others give the company the […]
Fibre Hearing: Independent ISPs will be put out of business without access to local fibre and lower CBB rates
GATINEAU – The increasing of usage-sensitive rates such as capacity-based billing (CBB) as a tool to incent competitors to build their own high speed networks, as was suggested by Rogers […]
Fibre Hearing: Seven days of evidence, yet no problem to solve…
GATINEAU – “Contrary to the assertions of some parties, there is simply no problem to solve when it comes to Canadian broadband.” Those comments from Ted Woodhead, senior VP of […]
Fibre Hearing: “You don’t want to kill the goose that lays the golden networks,” says Rogers
GATINEAU – Wholesale access rates that are too low, as Rogers Communications contends they are now, will not lead to further competitor investment in networks, the company said on Tuesday […]
Fibre Hearing day six: Risk in allowing competitor access to FTTP is too high, says Telus
GATINEAU – With a cost profile four times higher, an unclear applications future and potentially new access technologies, fibre to the premise (FTTP) carries far too high a risk profile […]
Fibre Hearing: VMedia plays IPTV card; Shaw says re-regulating Ethernet would be wrong
GATINEAU – The current wholesale broadband access regime has made it very difficult for new IPTV providers to compete against incumbents, argued independent ISP/IPTV provider VMedia in appearance before the […]
Fibre Hearing: More open, flexible model will lead to wholesale growth, says Cogeco. Notsomuch, says Distributel
GATINEAU – Cogeco Cable says it doesn’t need to be all or nothing when it comes to regulating wholesale access to incumbent broadband facilities. The company told the CRTC Thursday […]
Fibre Hearing: Many small ISPs are building their own fibre. Why can’t everyone else do the same, asks Bell
GATINEAU – The lack of wholesale access to last mile fibre infrastructure hasn’t deterred competitors from investing in their own high-speed networks, Bell Canada told the CRTC during its appearance […]
Fibre Hearing: CNOC, Primus, say four broadband suppliers is the right competitive number
GATINEAU – The argument which says the incumbent telcos would simply stop investing in fibre networks if competitors were granted access to them is just not true, according to the […]