To be clear about this, Bell, for example—or any of the incumbents, really—builds the broadband networks and then uses those broadband networks to provide services to its own customers on a retail basis. It also sells wholesale access to those networks to providers like TekSavvy and other wholesale-based competitors, and we take those wholesale services that we buy, put them together with other services that we took to make our Internet service and sell them to our customers. The requirement is that everyone who is buying those wholesale services from Bell is buying essentially the same services. There's some variability because of off-tariff agreements, but the tariff services that we all buy, I assume are essentially the same. We have a level playing field among the competitors, but that is very different from the service that Bell provides to its own retail customers.
This is really not just about Bell, it's about all the incumbents that are mandated to sell wholesale services. They typically have many advantages that they can leverage when they're selling services to their own retail customers, operational advantages and efficiency advantages, and they obviously have a lot of information about what services, capacity, backhaul and other sorts of things are available and can manage that in ways on their retail side that we can't on the wholesale side.
This goes back to some of the ideas of structural or functional separation that Laura Tribe was talking about earlier, where if Bell, for example, were required to buy its own broadband services on the same terms that we buy its broadband services to serve their retail customers, I think that would create a level playing field and would probably improve the services that we all got from their broadband network.