Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for appearing today.
I think everybody wants increased competition. It's the obvious thing. But just like the oil and gas industry, where you have vertical integration, you don't necessarily have to have collusion. You just have the fact that Petro-Canada, for example, ships in Esso gasoline and sells it to other stations. There just isn't the competitive approach anymore.
One of the things I have a concern about is how, for example, Globalive--which is, some allege, and I think there's some truth to this, really just a front for an Egyptian billionaire--has been very much on the front of the New York Times and other papers, saying that the next generation of development is actually acquiring medium and other types of telco sector providers right now, as the next wave. They could actually come into our market, and, right now, when we have an issue of competition--I think that's fair, and very clear out there--we could have another model brought on us where we have one or two operators after a couple of years and no real competition.
I'd like your comments on that, because that's one of the fears being expressed out there. When we look at some of our domestic players, they're not the big fish in the sea. They're the ones who right now provide us services, but they could be very vulnerable, or they could be very interested in being purchased or in selling significant parts of their operations to foreign investors, with not necessarily a new competitive model coming into place.