Industry committee  If I can say one thing, one guiding principle that would be of assistance would be to return wholesale regulation to a true cost-based regime and don't impose charges where there are no underlying average costs underlying the proposed charges. I could say a lot more, but I'll l

Industry committee  Thank you for your question. I want to make a distinction between the retail market and the wholesale market. I think it would be fine to leave retail markets to the operation of market forces to the maximum extent possible, as long as we have a robust wholesale regime. That use

Industry committee  I think all the honourable members and everyone else in this room knows that. Successive Canadian governments of all stripes have consistently put on the top of their agenda bringing Canada to the forefront of the digital economy worldwide. But the reality is that since 1994, we'

Industry committee  I think you're pointing out something that's probably true. The concerns that CAIP has about this notice are that the commission does not appear to have abandoned the notion that it wants to keep wholesale looking like retail. So that same issue seems to be there. But as my colle

Industry committee  I'm at three.

Industry committee  All right. Retail equivalence—and this is an important point—is, practically speaking, unenforceable, because no one really knows what the retail pricing plans of Bell are. There's no regulation of retail pricing. There's no requirement to publish. At any given point in time, Bel

Industry committee  Thank you. The commission based its approval of wholesale UBB on this so-called equivalence of treatment principle that the commission attempted to bring between wholesale access services and retail Internet services. Other witnesses have already described to you that they are

Industry committee  That's fine. Thank you.

Industry committee  Good afternoon. My name is Monica Song. I am counsel to the Canadian Association of Internet Providers, or CAIP. CAIP thanks the committee for this opportunity to appear before you today. The chairman of CAIP, Mr. Tom Copeland, has been called away on a personal matter and ask