I have been continuing to think about the expedited process that the CRTC is following to review its Local Forbearance Decision.
Following up on my Sunday blog posting, with some prodding I noticed that the CRTC only directed interrogatories to handful of VoIP resellers including Comwave, Cybersurf, Primus, Yak and Vonage. Why these service providers and none of the rest?
There are many, many more VoIP service providers.
It isn’t as though these are the only ones that the CRTC knows about. After all, the Commission has been notified by other providers subsequent to another proceeding that was looking at the customer notification requirements associated with 911 for VoIP.
Will the CRTC have enough data on the state of the market if it doesn’t even ask for input from the dozens of service providers it knows about, let alone the service providers that aren’t registered in any way? How will it know who the major players are, if it doesn’t even ask the question?