[ NNSquad ] Re: Bell Canada proposal to cap wholesale customers

["Russell Smiley" <smiley@nortel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Young [mailto:young@jsyoung.net] 
> Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ] Bell Canada proposal to cap 
> wholesale customers
> 
> Of course these episodes have a way of self correcting, but 
> do all wholesale ISP's in Canada have a choice?
> 

To me this is the interesting question and it is not all clear to me
what alternatives to Bell are available in Canada for backbone or access
backhaul providers. Canada is a big place with a relatively small
population and historically considerable government intervention was
required to ensure satisfactory levels of investment. I'm not sure that
we are better off now that government has backed out and a general state
of deregulation reigns.