Monthly Archives: October 2014
At Bell, Business is Good (short version)
It used to be that universal telephone service was achieved through a cross subsidy flowing from business to residential users. Businesses were heavy users of long distance services, which were provided above cost to ensure that all Canadians had access to local telephone service. That practice went out the window with the introduction of competition, […]
At Bell, Business is Good
In a bygone era of telecommunications policy, the Canadian state conferred regional monopoly privileges on companies such as Bell Canada and B.C. Tel (today Telus), and in returnĀ those companies were required to meet certain social goals, perhaps the most well known of which was universal service. Some might call this part of a “regulatory bargain.” […]
Angelus Novus 