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Sunday, April 03, 2005

Overregulation

I think we can all agree that the CRTC is an unnecessary and innovation killing government oversight body. If it's not ruling against Fox News (oooohhh scary Fox), or forcing us to listen to Tom Cochrane AGAIN (because of 'Canadian content' rules on the radio), it's trying to control what magazines we have access too (). And as is the case with all good government organizations, it is unable to make decisions in a timely fashion. Bell has just announced that it will start offering Voice of IP to customers in Quebec, even though the CRTC hasn't decided if VOIP qualifies as telephone (must regulate!) or an Internet application (not regulated - yay!). Stay tuned...

1 Comments:

  • At 9:12 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Well, hopefully they look at some of the court decisions in the States on the question. Without fail, all the decisions have decided that VOIP is the domain of internet services and not subject to telephone regulations.

     

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