"Admin - Storm3" <admin.DeleteThis@stormserver.net> wrote in
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> "Marc Bissonnette" <dragnet.DeleteThis@internalysis.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9465A19788F88dragnetinternalysisc@206.172.150.14...
>> "Admin - Storm3" <admin.DeleteThis@stormserver.net> wrote in news:HXEJb.67183
>> $6b2.46740@edtnps84:
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>> >
>> > "S.S.I.N." <S.S.I.N..DeleteThis@m.com> wrote in message
>> > news:jfEJb.930216$pl3.589208@pd7tw3no...
>> >> do not use .ca !!!
>> >> it is run by the c.r.t.c.
>> >> the group that censors everything in canada.
>> >> please do not buy their products
>> >
>> > It is not "run" by the CRTC.
>>
>> Not to mention the CRTC doesn't have any 'products' - they are a
> regulatory
>> body of our government - sometimes they do good things, often times
>> they
> do
>> boneheaded things (or nothing at all, which is about the same) and
>> have little teeth in enforcing their edicts (witness that it's been
>> two years since they told the CableCo's to open up their broadband
>> networks for competition and they *still* haven't done it)
>
> Good point. Although a little off topic, All the Cable Co's have
> indeed opened their plants. It was a local (Alberta) court decision
> that forced them. Not really a bad deal, but I'll stick with deploying
> xDSL and Wireless....
I dunno about that - there's still complaints on the CAIP (Canadian
Association of Internet Providers) list that the Cable co's still make it
nearly impossible to resell Cable.
I mean, look on my own site, <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.canadianisp.com" target="_blank">http://www.canadianisp.com</a> - select
"Toronto" and "Cable" and you'll only get 7 ISPs selling Cable broadband
in Canada's largest city. (I notice that Storm is one of them, so you
guys must have some hefty negotiatiors
The same search for DSL in Toronto brings up 70 ISPs. Just to put things
in perspective, we've got about 80% of all ISPs in Canada who have self-
registered on our site.
> The CRTC does have a task force, though. I know for me being registerd
> for Telecom with them, I have to pay a percentage every LD minute I
> sell, and every copper loop I provision. It could be possible this
> same task force forces CIRA to do the same thing with .ca domains?
Gawd, that'd be a little too Orwellian for me, if true - the .ca is a
Canadian product that just about all of us should be able to resell
without further funding yet another government org in one of the most
taxed nations on Earth
--
Marc Bissonnette
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