Dear Editor:
Hats off to Jean-Pierre Blais who, as chairman of the CRTC, has taken a first step in his courageous stand against the giants of the telecommunications industry for their greedy and arrogant conduct.
Their reluctance to share their broadband networks with smaller companies at reasonable rates is the primary cause for the high cost of home Internet services today. I well remember, arriving in Canada in the 1950s, when it cost a half day’s pay to make a phone call home to my parents overseas because B.C. Tel monopolized the market and it wasn’t until 30 years later they were forced to allow competition in long-distance telephone service.
The same is true with the Internet today.
We, as consumers, need to let the CRTC know that we are not happy with the status quo and that we support Mr. Blais in his endeavour to lower the outrageously high cost of Internet services today.
Ivor Bennett
West Vancouver
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