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Industry committee  The Competition Bureau really can't help in the telecommunications market because their procedures and their practices take too long. They take years and years. They're not designed to take a monopoly market to competition. Quite frankly, they won't even begin their investigation

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  Of course, in a normal competitive market, these sorts of things are perfectly natural. Even in a communications market where competition has had a chance to become established, I think that the winback rules enhance competition. The trouble is that when you're dealing with a mar

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  If you would indulge me, let me read to you what Bell said about the winback rules in the cable market. This is a statement they made on January 28, 2005, in a publication called Canadian Communications Reports, a statement by the director of regulatory matters supporting the win

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  Well, we didn't put out a press release supporting either the draft order or the direction. I know some of my colleagues did, so they can explain their press releases. We, at Rogers, absolutely believe that deregulation is the right approach, that market forces are the right ap

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  People forget how recent our entry into the telephone market has been. A whole bunch of companies went into the telephone business in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and they all went bankrupt. In 2002-03 we were all scratching our heads wondering what was going to happen. EastLi

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  I am very concerned about the policy direction. I think that sometimes government does something that seems on the surface to be a good idea, and then it has unintended consequences, and the policy direction may be an example of that. The policy direction talks about maximizing

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  I think a little more study might have let people put a little more flesh on the bones. My concern with the direction always was that it was motherhood statements; you can read a lot into them, and I'm afraid that's what's happening today.

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  Do you mean the fining power?

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  I'm not a great believer in the fining power as a way to do things. On the quality-of-service issue that I mentioned to you before, the CRTC has something like a fining power in place today: when they give bad quality of service, they have to give refunds. We'll get a couple of m

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  Thank you. I do think it's a good idea, because one of the concerns I have, along the lines of what Yves was saying, is that the CRTC reads thousands and thousands of pages of evidence. They hear from all these witnesses. They have oral hearings. There are huge books of transcri

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  I've spoken to quite a few small cable companies who serve some of those smaller markets. Quite frankly, some of them are not at all sure they're going to enter the telephony market. Even for a big company like Rogers.... We have a number of small rural systems in New Brunswick a

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  Yes, the winback period would always be 90 days. I'm not proposing to change that. But what the CRTC said is that this 90-day rule stays in place until the incumbent has lost 20% market share. While we support that fully, if the time interval to lose 20% market share seems exce

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  When satellite service was launched, the CRTC put a winback rule in place that stated that cable companies could not call our own customers for 90 days after satellite won them over, so it was exactly the same situation. We were not allowed, if they won one of our customers, to c

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  I think the CRTC had it right in their order, but what we said in our comments to the proposed order was that if the government was anxious to remove these rules, they should at least say six months, so that the rules would be in place for six months after you turned up the servi

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart

Industry committee  Thank you very much. If we take a look at the CRTC's forbearance order, they said, as many regulators around the world have said, that they will deregulate once the incumbent phone companies lose significant market power, and they assessed a 25% market share loss as the point at

February 7th, 2007Committee meeting

Kenneth Engelhart