(DOWNLOAD) "Skating Toward Deregulation: Canadian Developments." by Federal Communications Law Journal " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Skating Toward Deregulation: Canadian Developments.
- Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 321 KB
Description
I. INTRODUCTION Despite extensive deregulation in the telecommunications sector, local voice service has proven to be the last and most difficult market to deregulate. Perhaps the most extensive steps toward deregulation of this last stage are being taken in Canada. In April 2006, the Canada Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ("CRTC") decided it was "prepared to forbear" from regulating the local voice service provided by the incumbent local exchange carder ("ILEC"), if the ILEC could show it had lost twenty-five percent of its share in a relevant market defined by both product (including voice-over Internet protocol or "VoIP", excluding wireless) and geography (primarily the census metropolitan area or "CMA"). (1) ILECs were also prohibited from efforts to "winback" customers who had switched to competitors in the prior three months, unless the ILEC had lost twenty percent of its market. (2) This decision followed a 2005 CRTC decision not to deregulate ILEC VoIP service. (3)