🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <dreilley.1547.00B97884@pinc.com>,
David Reilley <dreilley@pinc.com> wrote:
>>>And when *your* cell phone doesn't work in this deregulated universe, it 
>>will 
>>>be because *I* have started "Dave's Cellular Network", and no CRTC 
>>regulator 
>>>is going to tell *me* I can't use Brad's frequency.  I'll be a free man, 
>>>operating in a pure free enterprise economy.
>
>
>>You will be fully free to start "Dave's Cellular Network" if you own 
>>broadcasting rights to the necessary frequencies. If you don't, and 
>>transmit on those frequencies anyway, then you will be stopped, like any 
>>trespasser.
>
>No I won't -- because you will have done away with the instrument the state 
>currently uses to define who owns which broadcasting rights.  

Spectrum allocation is done by the Department of Communications, not by
the CRTC.

This country has no use for the CRTC.  The CRTC distorts economic and
technical reality.  Consider the whole Bell/ISP flap.  This came about partly
because the CRTC forces Bell to observe a fixed tariff, even if the tariff
may not seem to apply.  This is the same CRTC that's trying to create
artificial long-distance competition by forcing Bell to lease trunks to
resellers who are then able to undercut Bell's prices for residential
access to those trunks, thereby discouraging long-distance companies from
establishing their own communications infrastructure, and leading to
obscenities such as Bell charging for LD directory assistance (becuase
they can no longer depend on you using Bell to dial the # you just got
from them).  This is the same CRTC that tells radio and TV stations what
to broadcast in an era where I can point a dish to the sky and watch anything
I want.

Come budget day, let's scrap the CRTC.
-- 
            David Jones, burnt-out volunteer, Toronto Free-Net
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