{"id":348,"date":"2015-08-17T12:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T18:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textor.ca\/?p=348"},"modified":"2015-08-17T12:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T18:50:54","slug":"is-canada-moving-to-an-open-access-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textor.ca\/is-canada-moving-to-an-open-access-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Canada Moving to an Open Access Network?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the CRTC mandating that telecom companies must share their passive broadband infrastructure might mean that Canada is moving toward\u00a0an OAN. That means companies might actually need to show a return on investment for their passive infrastructure assets (fiber, conduit, towers) rather than using them to block competition. I’m all for the Telecom companies making a profit (I’m a shareholder of many of them) but I’d rather they do it on the service side in open, honest competition. We know from experience that competition drives companies to be innovative. I would like all the Telecom companies I own to be around for a long, long time and the “we’ve always done it this way” (no innovation) is going to kill them.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/07\/30\/this-controversial-internet-policy-has-divided-americans-for-years-now-canadas-just-adopted-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.gc.ca\/web\/article-en.do?mthd=tp&crtr.page=1&nid=1004669&crtr.tp1D=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the CRTC mandating that telecom companies must share their passive broadband infrastructure might mean that Canada is moving toward\u00a0an OAN. That means companies might actually need to show a return on investment for their passive infrastructure assets (fiber, conduit, towers) rather than using them to block competition. I’m all for the Telecom companies making … <\/p>\n