With this goal of affordability, we're now increasing the amount of content that can be funnelled to a consumer, either a business or an individual. That means greater incurred costs for the Internet service providers, in terms of the consumer. They'll charge more because more data is now flowing to the consumer.
What do we do with this type of issue? For example, where I live I'm very familiar with the border situation, because we have roaming charges and there is the whole battle for consumers over roaming charges. I can be up to two kilometres away from the United States border and my device will pick up an American signal and that could lead to roaming charges, and so forth.
Here is the thing: we're growing the availability of it, but the providers are the real beneficiaries as we move more product through a subsidized system, which they then charge fees to. Again, when Netflix movies become more high definition, that means there is more data; more data means that people have more costs, and so forth. What do we do about that in terms of fairness for consumers?
I'll finish with this. The CRTC's great example was the basic cable package. We saw the response to that, which I thought was a fair way to approach cable, but they went out and it became a significant problem. Without going into details, the same thing can be happening here. We subsidize the expansion, the expansion leads to the flow of more product for the private sector, the private sector then charges more to the consumer, and it's an incurred cost from there on. I can tell you, if you have a teenage daughter and the Wi-Fi goes down, it's like Armageddon.
I'll stop there, but the end result is more consumer costs.