[Advisors] National broadband strategy essential : CRTC chair

[Marita Moll]

Brian, we have signed on to the First Mile proposal -- as per our 
intervention to the Basic Service hearing

"Many low-income Canadians and hard to serve communities will need 
assistance in these early stages of technological change. It may seem 
antiquated in the current competitive climate, but cross subsidization 
of urban-rural systems was a common way of achieving this in the early 
days of telephony. We challenge the Commission to establish a funding 
mechanism to subsidize the deployment of broadband Internet access in 
areas where it is needed. The First Mile Connectivity Consortium (FMCC) 
is proposing a Northern Infrastructure and Services Fund (NISF) as a 
means of supporting these developments6 and we wish to support their 
proposal"

Marita

On 4/18/2016 9:03 PM, Beaton wrote:
> Right on Garth .. I am surprised about Blais¹ call for the telecom
> industry to be involved. This was tried by the Liberal government in 2001
> with the National Broadband Task Force made up of industry reps making up
> about 90% of the task force. The resulting ³New National Dream² made so
> many promises with their $4 Billion ask so they could finish the job in 4
> years.
>
> Fifteen years later we are still talking about the gaps, the unserved and
> the underserved. Telus executives and their so-called experts today
> claimed that the industry will take care of everything if they are given
> the time and resources. They said the same thing in 2001 when they said
> they could give everyone access in 4 years. Now they are claiming that
> Xplornet will deliver the solution for the remaining needs by 2017. I had
> to live with an Xplornet connection for several years. They were claiming
> it would get better every year back then. Just last week a woman living
> outside of Ottawa wrote to me about how bad her Xplornet connection is ..
> Very little has changed in the message and the service for those outside
> of urban centres.
>
> The First Mile Connectivity Consortium did their presentation last week
> (see firstmile.ca/fmcc-team-presents-at-crtc-bso-hearings) and it got
> Globe and Mail coverage as well (links available on the same page). We are
> asking that the CRTC make the Telco¹s Deferral fund available to
> non-for-profit regional and community providers. We are calling for the
> establishment of the Northern Infrastructure and Services Fund to support
> the construction and operation of the networks that the community need and
> desire. The Deferral Fund has millions of dollars available to the
> incumbent telecom providers to use to construct infrastructure to reach
> unserved communities. The telcos are too busy competing in the rich urban
> centre to put any resources into the north. So instead of spending this
> money on the northern connections, the telcos supported reimbursing the
> consumers a few dollars each a few years back when PIAC pushed for access
> to those dollars. It actually made the telcos look good to the masses who
> received those cheques and the CRTC were made to look weak. And the folks
> in the north remained unserved and underserved.
>
> I would invite TC to consider signing onto this FMCC effort to support our
> intervention with the CRTC. We can use all the help we can get to make
> sure the CRTC hears and respects the voices of the folks who are
> struggling to get connected Š
>
> Brian
>
> On 2016-04-18, 9:37 PM, "Garth Graham"<garth.graham at telus.net>  wrote:
>
>    
>> "..... the chairman of Canada¹s telecom regulator called on governments
>> as well as the telecom industry itself to contribute to the development
>> of a ³coherent national broadband strategy.²
>>
>> There will never be a coherent strategy as long as that's the expectation
>> about the composition of major players. How can we make a dint in that
>> expectation?
>>
>> GG
>>
>>      
>>> On Apr 18, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Marita Moll<mmoll at ca.inter.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> With the CRTC chair calling for a national strategy in a speech during
>>> the basic service hearings, I imagine we might see some renewed interest
>>> in this on the part of the federal government.  See article below
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/crtc-chair-makes-strong
>>> -call-for-national-broadband-strategy/article29671174/
>>>
>>> Marita
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