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Verizon forbearance and the FCC

December 3, 2007

There's an interesting regulatory battle going on south of the border. "Forbearance" is a provision in the 1996 Telecom Act that allows the FCC to set aside the competition rules when enforcement of the rule is not required to protect the public interest.  Incumbent's have learned how to use the forbearance provisions of the the [...]

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Time for a voice rEvolution.

September 17, 2007

Is Vonage's day finally done?  It certainly seems that it might be the case.  Over the weekend a good friend phoned me about his home office.  He does three or four hours of business calling per day, and wants to start doing more of it from home. He wanted to know what the best choice [...]

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Why we love to hate the phone company

August 1, 2007

In Why Cloud the Issue With Facts? Mark Goldberg takes issue with a recent Ottawa Citizen editorial decrying high wireless access rates and the lack of competition in the Canadian market.  Mark writes: One paragraph was particularly insulting to the software and hardware developers that call Canada home: Nobody with a cutting-edge product to sell [...]

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They ARE a phone company, after all…

December 16, 2006

I skipped over to Bell Canada’s web site a few minutes ago, looking for whether or not the Ottawa/Buffalo game tonight was going to broadcast in high definition.  Most of the time it isn’t, and tonight is no different.  Hockey Night in Canada really oughta be renamed Hockey Night in Toronto with Don Cherry and [...]

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Canadian Incumbents Losing Share

October 3, 2005

Front page of the business section in the Globe and Mail this morning: Bell, Telus face erosion in market share.  Convergence Consulting Group is forecasting residential line share loss at 7% for Bell this year, and 5% for Telus.  Primarily due to the low cost of entry for VoIP technology, cable companies will capture 6.5% [...]

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Bell Canada Digital Voice

September 10, 2005

Bell’s new Digital Voice offering is a good indication of where they are going strategically with VoIP.  Dismissed by many as too little too late, Bell’s offering is much more than it first appears. First, it really is the first salvo beyond the basic telephone service being offered by Virtual Network Operators like Vonage, or [...]

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Bell Canada Expands Residential VoIP

September 8, 2005

Bell Canada announced today that they’re expanding their residential VoIP service.  The feature-set looks a lot like Vonage.  The details are at their website, and you can check if it’s available in your area on this page. 

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CRTC VoIP Decision

May 13, 2005

The CRTC announced its decision on VoIP yesterday.  You can read the entire decision here.  According to the CRTC, VoIP is telephone service when it connects to the PSTN, and will be regulated as such.  So, VoIP is a tarriffed service in Canada.   One would think that the incumbents would be happy, because the CRTC appears to be preserving [...]

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Von Canada, EOD

April 19, 2005

VON Canada, Day 1, is over. It’s been a long day.  Although there isn’t a lot of earth shattering news, there is a real sense in the air that VoIP is at the tipping point. The last two sessions of the day, for me, were the VoIP and SMB session that I participated in, and [...]

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