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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Canada’s carriers undermine Canadian innovation
in: Startups
The Ottawa Net Neutrality rally last week was a decent effort, but Canadian consumers need to get fired up about their information infrastructure for it to catch on as an issue politicians care about. Canada’s telco monopolies — each of which is part of a major media conglomerate — have no reason to play fair on this. Bell’s land lines are dwindling (down 9.9%) according to its 2007 annual report; and revenues from long distance (down 8.1 percent) are vanishing to VOIP. But the problem is that telco stuff like net neutrality isn’t sexy, as extralife brilliantly points out. Class action lawsuits might make people care — particularly if there’s a $2,000 windfall at the end of them.
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