Roberta Fox has created a bi-weekly Telecom Dispatch newsletter, to fill the void left by the end of Angus Telecom Update. The first issue will be released on Friday September 21.
I plan to be a regular contributor.
You can sign up for the new bi-weekly by clicking here.
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This is a truncated week for blog posts since our office will be closed for Rosh Hashana, the start of the Jewish New Year, which begins tonight and runs through Friday evening.
May you be inscribed in the Book of Life for a good year.
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A plug-in for Firefox has been driving Mark Evans to write a couple rants in the past few weeks.
Mark calls the technology evil.
Adblock Plus enables Firefox users to surf the web without advertising. As Nick Carr writes:
Imagine that somebody has been yelling into your ear for so long that it’s come to seem normal. Now imagine that the person suddenly shuts up. That’s the effect of ad-blocking. It’s like going back to the feel of the web in the early 90s, before it was strip-malled.
But Mark Evans is with a company that produces and syndicates blogs. His firm has a business model that is dependent on an advertising model. Perhaps Web 2.0 business models will need to evolve.
Ironic, isn’t it?
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The CRTC has been approving applications for forbearance for Bell and TELUS and other ILECs offering local services. A number of decisions have been issued as the Commission deals with the applications in an expedited fashion.
But today, the CRTC said no to 56 out of 58 areas for which Bell had applied for forbearance.
information provided by Bell Canada and confirmed by competitors indicates that none of the competitors is capable of serving at least 75 percent of the number of residential local exchange service lines that Bell Canada is capable of serving in each of these exchanges.
The competitive presence test is critical to assure the Commission a residential local exchange services will be subject to a level of competition sufficient to protect the interests of users.
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The Tuesday interview in CARTT today is with Michael Geist on the topic of Net Neutrality.
Greg O’Brien of CARTT asked Dr. Geist why the issue hasn’t had the level of prominence in Canada that it attracts south of the border.
Michael answers:
I’d at least like to see a real debate take place… and it’s been frustrating. So you know this (diversity of voices) hearing is next week, and the fact that we had a couple people step forward, a couple major content organizations step forward and put it on the table, I think suggests that at least within some of the corporate community, there’s a growing realization that this is a relevant issue. And I think within the CRTC there is a realization that it’s an issue that they can’t avoid forever.
How should government address the issue?
From my perspective, the issues we need to be thinking about is not that the government come in and establish a wide layer of regulations for every issue under the sun, but rather recognize that the internet itself has changed dramatically really from a consumption-internet to a participatory internet. And from a policy and law perspective, we ought to be thinking about what kind of rules the government might consider to help facilitate some of that.
It is an interesting interview, worthwhile reading.
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