The CRTC‘s rules on local forbearance set a threshold of 25% market share loss for the incumbent in a census or economic region.
While a lot of folks have focussed on Eastlink’s success in residential services versus Aliant, it appears that Western Canada has substantial evidence of business services competition in its 3 biggest markets.
The CRTC monitoring report indicates that, as of year end 2005, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver have lost 24.5%, 23.4% and 22.5% respectively.
The applications for forbearance should be getting prepared already. It makes one wonder why TELUS has not asked for the business services winback restrictions to be lifted in those markets, unless it is failing on the competitor services quality metrics.
We note that Toronto (416) and Barrie are in a similar position for business services.