Canadian telco monopolists run the show

The CRTC just put Teksavvy out of business.

Cory Doctorow

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The Canadian flag; in each of the red side-bars, there is a leaning telephone pole trailing cut wires; in place of the maple leaf, there is a giant pair of scissors whose blades are superimposed with the wordmarks for the CRTC in French and English. Image: Hardyplants (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scissors_Pre_1850.jpg Famartin (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015-03-31_18_45_36_Utility_poles_along_railroad_tracks_in_Deeth,_Nevada.JPG CC BY-SA: https:/

If there’s one lesson you’d hope governments would take away from the pandemic and the lockdown, it’s that good internet policy — universal access at fair prices, managed in the public interest — is a prerequisite for all good policy.

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