Industry committee  I'll take a crack at it. I think the reason is there was incredible interest in that program. It was a $550-million program and my understanding is that all the money has been expended. I guess your question is that maybe more smaller projects should have been selected rather t

Industry committee  I think they were unsuccessful because of the size of the funds available.

Industry committee  Rogers does not actually own any poles, so we certainly are not a party to that. We are actually a buyer of access on poles.

Industry committee  I'll take the first shot at that. You said that we had raised the price to the resellers. That's not the case. The price has remained the same. To the extent that resellers have to buy more capacity in order to provide service during these times, they're in the exact same situa

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  For Rogers, we agree with everything that has been said so far. We do think that the funds from the spectrum auctions should be devoted to bettering telecommunication services. The one caution we would have is that a three-year target strikes us as really ambitious, because we're

Industry committee  It's Dave Watt here. I'll take the first shot at that. Dean may follow up. I think we would consider “rural” to be the same metric as Statistics Canada does, that is, communities with a population of less than 1,000 and areas where the density of population is 400 or fewer per s

Industry committee  I think what you're likely referring to are the comments in reaction to the CRTC decision last August with respect to the wholesale Internet rates set by the commission at that time, which Mr. Eichel from Cogeco referred to in his comments. Should those rates go into effect, the

Industry committee  About 80% of our customers do not have a cap on their home Internet service. They have taken unlimited service. Those who've chosen to take a package that has a cap are paying a lower price. There are certain Canadians with certain income abilities who will want a lower price. S

Industry committee  I guess I would just echo a remark you made earlier—that is, that $900 million of Rogers' revenue was directed to Canadian content producers and creators.

Industry committee  I was just going to add, as well, that the reason for the desire for an order from the CRTC for the blocking would be that the order would apply to all ISPs. For example, to go back to the very start of the question, if one of us felt we were authorized to do this.... We're not,

Industry committee  Could I just make two points there? One, where this regime has been put in place, there's been a 70% to 90% reduction. We're not claiming that it's going to stop it all, but it has been effective in stopping the majority of the theft. In terms of the slippery slope, we'd really

Industry committee  It's the same answer.

Industry committee  In terms of the new tools and technologies, I think many of them exist today. The Sandvine analytics allow us to identify the high upstream loaders. As Mr. Graham mentioned, the question is, how do people obtain this content? They will literally set up 60 set-top boxes, tune one

Industry committee  Yes, there's the packet inspection equipment that is available to provide insight into what is buried in the packets, but effectively, we cannot use it to throttle or discriminate between the bits. It's really for informational purposes only.