[zmanji]

This can't happen because it is illegal for telecommunications providers to be foreign owned. The correct first step would be to lobby our "free market" prime minister to let the free market operate.

[grecy]

Are you 100% certain about that?

I work for a telco in Canada and the CRTC has just passed a ruling to allow competition into the market for the first time ever in this operating area.

I'm not 100% certain, but I think at least one of the new competitiors coming in is foreign owned. They'll be offering wireless, wireline and internet services.

[adamzochowski]

This is correct. Please read about Egyptian Wind Mobile having issues entering market because they didn't have enough Canadian ownership.

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/wind-mobile-violates-laws-on-f...

[lucisferre]

Yeah I'd sign this if it had even a snowballs chance in hell of making a difference. Telecom in Canada is such a racket right now I just see no real hope. My biggest hope for change right now is that Wind actually gets the government to agree to let them compete fairly.

[calvintennant]

I hope that we can have this discussion; I've even created a repo for it: https://github.com/calvintennant/Open-Specification-for-Broa.... There are a lot of issues with how the CRTC is operating, I hope we can induce change.

[biomechanica]

I might be completely wrong on this, but isn't Rogers a part of AT&T?

[zmanji]

No, Rogers Communications is not owned or apart of AT&T. I believe they have mutual roaming agreements for their wireless customers though.