Ever since I lived in Denver 25 years ago, I have been a Broncos fan.
The NFL season so far this year has been a treat for me, with Peyton Manning providing weekly clinics in quaterbacking skills. One of the benefits of his no-huddle offense is the ability to get the next play started before the opposing coach has a chance to throw a “challenge flag” on the previous play.
More than once, the Broncos have benefited from blown calls on the field that would have been overturned by the replay official if given the chance.
For a couple months now, I have been suggesting that we need to take a deep breath, and take stock of where we are before rushing ahead with more intervention in Canada’s wireless market. Michael Geist, alluded to my posts, but apparently he wants us to go no-huddle:
we can expect calls to delay any further policy action until there are further studies or opportunities take stock [sic] of recent developments.
In this case, the government need not hand the incumbents another victory by delaying much-needed policy reforms.
But last night, I spotted flawed data in the CRTC’s Communications Monitoring Report. The data makes it appear that Canada’s mobile data networks are among the world’s slowest, when the truth is that they are among the world’s fastest. What kind of flawed policy can emerge if we follow his recommendation to run the next play before checking with the replay official.
We need to get wireless policy right, not rush ahead based on incomplete and incorrect information.
I’m throwing the challenge flag.