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The CRTC and its singular affection for the sharing economy and ambivalence for investment
As many who follow this blog know I have been critical in the past about the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications...
Ted Woodhead
Jul 236 min read


Pretending you believe in investment while seemingly giving up on investment
Aerial fibre installation I have recently been struggling to understand what Key Performance Indicators the government, and its...
Ted Woodhead
Jun 176 min read


A new Government and what I am seeing
Ottawa from Unsplash It's been over 2 months since a new Government formed with a new Prime Minister and a shortened front bench...
Ted Woodhead
Jun 113 min read


The NDP wants Ottawa to block the sale of a minority interest in Rogers' wireless backhaul network to a consortium of pension funds based on no information.
The Globe and Mail has a piece in today's Business Section by journalist Irene Galea describing how NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is calling...
Ted Woodhead
Apr 94 min read


What to do when your closest ally engages in economic warfare, not just against you but everyone? Build more fibre broadband.
Like many people this is the thought that has preoccupied me over the last few weeks. Moreover, how should a government respond in the...
Ted Woodhead
Apr 83 min read


Here's hoping the CRTC sees what is going on with resale
Why is the CRTC handing out a “corporate subsidy” to Telus? Prior to Telus determining that it was in its strategic business interest to...
Ted Woodhead
Feb 264 min read
The CRTC plays Taps for facilities-based competition
Yesterday afternoon, at about 4:15 p.m., my notifications for this blog began pinging and they kept pinging for most of the evening and...
Ted Woodhead
Feb 44 min read


Telus really wants to be a reseller now? In Regulatory Calvinball that makes complete sense.
[AI generated image] For more than two decades Telus has argued that resale is counterintuitive in a facilities -based regulatory regime....
Ted Woodhead
Dec 19, 20245 min read


There was obviously a failure to communicate
Photo by Jim Wilson on Unsplash In a previous post three weeks ago, I noted that the Governor in Council had directed the Canadian...
Ted Woodhead
Nov 26, 20243 min read
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