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VoIP Services to be Regulated in Canada
jeffcm writes "It seems that the CRTC, Canada's equivalent to the FCC has decided that VoIP pricing and services should be regulated. From The Globe & Mail: "The CRTC confirmed that it has rejected arguments from Bell and Telus that VoIP should be left unregulated like other on-line applications. If their argument had won the day, their competitors say, the incumbent phone companies would have been allowed to limit the number of new entrants by slashing prices in the short term.""
Keep those pesky damm old farts out of it.
The CRTC does more damage than good, why do we need a bunch of crusty old farts telling us what is and what isn't good.
The reason for all those extra charges on the phone bill is because the CRTC said the telephone companies could do it.
CRTC is also screwing everybody with regards to TV pricing, Digital services are now conditional access, IE it is now technically possible to subscribe to indvidual channels. However, in the CRTC's infinite wisdom we must buy our TV programming in packages, including being forced to subscribe to the basic services such as CPAC etc.
This is utter tripe, if a TV station is transmitting such garbage that it only has two viewers then why should it still exist, it's a bad business model. The CRTC ensure that the crap services stay alive by forcing everybody to pay for it.
Why can't I just subscribe to the channels I want, it would only be about ten channels from the billion channel universe, if people had this kind of choice then a lot of the garbage channels and shows would be gone.
Goodbye VOIP, it was nice knowing you, once the CRTC grab hold of it it won't be worth having.