As you know, the telephone industry used to be a very regulated industry, and it's now to the point where there's very little regulation in place, other than for foreign ownership. We, as workers, believe that the entire industry should have been regulated. That being said, we now appreciate that we will no longer have a two-tier system, so all the telephone companies should be able to compete on a level playing field. During the 1990s, that wasn't happening. We had a two-tier system, and I would argue that workers and communities suffered as a result of that.
On February 27th, 2007. See this statement in context.