I have two or three answers to that.
First of all, wireless is in most of the country and most rural areas too, and there is competition there. Telus will be offering the service in rural parts of Quebec where they're not offering wired service. We're also going to see in the future—and I can't tell you it's now—with the advent of better wireless technologies—WiMAX, for example--really wireless high-speed Internet access. That will start replacing the wire-line network as well
As for whether there will be other players, we already have mandatory wholesale obligations. In our view it goes too far, but for truly essential proportions of our network we think there's still a need for that, and we're quite happy to make truly essential portions of the network available to third parties.
But there's something you need to be careful about here. All of the studies, including the TPR report, said that type of resale competition was assertive and artificial competition. If you think about it, they're really just taking our product, re-branding it, and calling it something else. They're buying it from us, so they have our cost base. Their margin to manoeuvre is pretty limited no matter what, because it's basically our service. That's why I think the notion of encouraging people to own their own facilities really will produce a more sustainable type of competition.
That's what is perverse about the commission's wholesale regime, because it basically discourages people from investing in building their own network. That's just bad public policy, as everyone who has looked at it has said. In fact, the commission just two weeks ago came out with a decision. We're a CLEC, one of those little guys out west, and we buy from Telus. The commission came along and lowered the price of Telus' services. We used to buy equipment and own our own facilities, but we looked at it and said, “Why would we do that? We'll just buy from them.” That's not going to produce the type of competition we really need here.