What right does the government have to tell a company what to do with it's own property?
It's not 'the company's own property' though.
The fact is that Bell was given 100's of millions in taxpayer dollars to build out infrastructure over the decades.
This also applies to the US, where in the past 15 years or so the telcos were given some $200 billion in cash and tax cuts as an incentive to build out infrastructure.
They sat on those incentives for YEARS. Why do you think google's snapping up all that dark fiber, while only some people are getting FIOS and DocSIS?
In the case of Canada, the 3rd party wholesalers only need the 'last mile' from Bell, but almost every time they try to put in their own DSLAMs etc, Bell denies them.
All of this is pretty well documented at DSLreports.
If you think that the 'company' should get to own the infrastructure, maybe you should also be demanding that they pay back all the incentives and cash they were given to build 'their' property.
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What right does the government have to tell a company what to do with it's own property?
It's not 'the company's own property' though. The fact is that Bell was given 100's of millions in taxpayer dollars to build out infrastructure over the decades. This also applies to the US, where in the past 15 years or so the telcos were given some $200 billion in cash and tax cuts as an incentive to build out infrastructure. They sat on those incentives for YEARS. Why do you think google's snapping up all that dark fiber, while only some people are getting FIOS and DocSIS? In the case of Canada, the 3rd party wholesalers only need the 'last mile' from Bell, but almost every time they try to put in their own DSLAMs etc, Bell denies them. All of this is pretty well documented at DSLreports. If you think that the 'company' should get to own the infrastructure, maybe you should also be demanding that they pay back all the incentives and cash they were given to build 'their' property. http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=237
in JPG form can be found here... at least for now. http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=173