{"id":6132,"date":"2013-02-21T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T02:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2013-02-21T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T02:02:48","slug":"finally-over-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=6132","title":{"rendered":"Finally over, almost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us thought that today would finally be the end of a CRTC regulatory file that had its genesis nearly 5 years ago. We’re almost done.<\/p>\n

Let’s review.<\/p>\n

In 2008, the CRTC issued Decision 2008-17<\/a> a revised regulatory framework for wholesale and “essential” services. That begat a series of appeals leading to Telecom Regulatory Policy 2009-34<\/a>, which begat a Notice of Consultation (2009-261<\/a>), which indirectly gave rise to the much reviled creation of usage based pricing for wholesale internet, approved in Decision 2010-255<\/a>. The CRTC had a wholesale high speed access proceeding leading to \u00a0Telecom Regulatory Policy 2010-632<\/a>. The public furor and blatant signaling from the other side of the river caused the CRTC to review wholesale residential billing practices once again (“of its own motion” – if you believe the notice) in Public Notice 2011-77<\/a> leading to Telecom Regulatory Policy 2011-703<\/a>. That generated another series of appeals.<\/p>\n

The decisions that came out today<\/a> adjust much of what has been issued in the past 5 years.<\/p>\n

I am not going to analyze the outcomes or the impacts. Each company will have its own view of whether its consumers or shareholders benefit or lose as a result. As the CRTC states in the main release, Telecom Regulatory Policy \u00a02013-70<\/a>:<\/p>\n

the Commission expects that with these new wholesale HSA service decisions both the incumbents and the independent service providers will recognize the need to move away from regulatory processes into a period of certainty that will benefit the industry, their customers, and the Canadian economy as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It has been 5 years or more of uncertainty for Canadian internet service providers and their customers. It still isn’t over. The CRTC launched two more notices of consultation (2013-79<\/a>: Review of rate principles for legacy business wholesale high-speed access services<\/em>\u00a0and 2013-80<\/a>: Review of outstanding wholesale high-speed access service issues related to interface rates, optional upstream speed rates, and modem certification requirements<\/em>).<\/p>\n

More than anything, the lengthy process seems to demonstrate the challenge of rate regulation in a competitive marketplace.<\/p>\n

Decisions that were made initially did not appear to appropriately consider inter-platform competition and the need for regulatory symmetry. Unintended consequences kept popping up – consequences that many felt should have been anticipated. Digital policy appeared to be delivered through tweets, rather than a cohesive national strategy. The regulation of wholesale internet access will not be one of the proudest moments in CRTC history.<\/p>\n

Therein is the message that I see from today’s decisions. Internet services are not that complex.<\/p>\n

But, regulatory manipulation of a competitive market is tough work.<\/p>\n

As the CRTC prepares to intervene in mobile services, are there lessons from the internet services business?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of us thought that today would finally be the end of a CRTC regulatory file that had its genesis nearly 5 years ago. We’re almost done. Let’s review. In 2008, the CRTC issued Decision 2008-17 a revised regulatory framework for wholesale and “essential” services. That begat a series of appeals leading to Telecom Regulatory …<\/p>\n

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