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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
An oligopoly.
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That's the word, thanks!
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
The barriers of entry for a new ISP are simply too large for a start-up to manage.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
The CRTC props up an oligopoly while preventing new, real competition from entering the market. And as a consumer, your choice is already made for you - bend over and like it.
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But if the barriers of entry are too large, then it's not really the CRTC propping it up, it's the market that's propping it up, the CRTC is just formalizing a defacto situation, allowing the companies to charge extra for extra bandwidth. It's not like that that is a new thing, I pay for extra buckets of bandwidth on almost every non-consumer hosting or bandwidth package I've ever dealt with, and the ones that were unmetered were a LOT slower.