Rogers Joins Telus In Seeking National Regulation

silentbrad writes "Canada's largest mobile service provider is urging the federal telecom regulator to implement a mandatory national consumer protection code (PDF; actual filing with the CRTC) in order to defuse the threat posed by a growing hotchpotch of provincial regulations for wireless services. Rogers Communications Inc. submitted that proposal to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in an application late Thursday. In doing so, Rogers becomes the second major carrier to ask the CRTC to resume active regulation of the terms and conditions for wireless service contracts, a practice it largely abandoned during the 1990s. Nonetheless, those regulatory powers, while latent, remain in the Telecommunications Act, meaning the CRTC can still exercise its authority over those matters."

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Re:Surprising.

[d3ac0n]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but pretty much ALL regulators, in ALL liberal democracies are captured in one way or another.

This is why "Big Business" likes regulation and spends money on politicians (read: lefties) that support more regulation, They know they OWN the regulators, and will be able to easily set up the regulations to benefit themselves to the exclusion of up and coming competition. Let's face it; Central Bureaucrats are cheap to buy and easy to manipulate for the power they wield.

This is why sane people support the ideals of conservatism and libertarianism. Smaller government with limited and specifically delineated powers is far more difficult to corrupt and much less worth the effort. Having a flatter and more distributed government that is more "local" than "federal" means that corruption is much more expensive to achieve than it is with a large federal bureaucratic government. Also, with less (not none. Less.) regulation generally, there is less market distortion and the bar to entry is significantly lower. This enables more competition and everyone benefits.

I always find it funny how many people continue to cling to the centralized and bureaucratic model for government when it has so often been proven to be an utter failure. TFA is yet another example.