Too little, too late. Who's even left in the independent reseller space?
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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TekSavvy, who graciously get to compete with the big ISPs at an uncompetitive wholesale price set by the CRTC.
Eh. 🙄
What a sad state of affairs.
***Not-so-***surprisingly, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission does not actually have any mandate to help foster competition or protect competition. They, at best, constantly pretent to be able to do that.
Source: Our Mandate, Mission and What We Do
It focuses on achieving policy objectives established in the Broadcasting Act, Telecommunications Act and Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)
We do not intervene in newspapers, magazines, the quality and content of TV and radio programs or the retail rates for most communication services.
(emphasis mine)
Anybody can get cheaper internet access pretty much anywhere else on the planet (even Antarctica or even lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, obviously not underwater... not yet at least, but once that is also available it will probably end up being cheaper than Canada).