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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


Don't look up and don't ask questions
I was interested to see last week that Ontario followed Quebec and Nova Scotia in announcing a publicly funded high speed internet...
Ted Woodhead
Nov 19, 20243 min read


Governor in Council Orders the CRTC to reconsider Incumbent Resale of each other's FTTH
In an after hours announcement Minister Champagne directed the CRTC to reconsider its earlier decision to mandate High Speed Access...
Ted Woodhead
Nov 6, 20242 min read


BCE buys Ziply Fiber for $5B
BCE announced yesterday that it is acquiring the U.S. based fibre internet provider Ziply Fiber for C$5. 0 billion in cash with the...
Ted Woodhead
Nov 5, 20243 min read


CRTC sets national interim rates for fibre resale mandate
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued its latest decision last Friday (October 25,...
Ted Woodhead
Oct 31, 20243 min read


The road to you know where is paved with good intentions?
On April 15, 2 021, the Canadian Radio -television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued a decision titled, Review of mobile...
Ted Woodhead
Oct 16, 20244 min read


The FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program ending in the United States
Due to the current dysfunction and gridlock in the U.S. Congress, the FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is ending in the United...
Ted Woodhead
Aug 12, 20244 min read


Scotiabank research models potential outcomes of the CRTC's upcoming final decision on fibre unbundling
In a research report published on June 20, 2024 Maher Yaghi and his colleague Joey Chan turned their minds to the potential outcomes of...
Ted Woodhead
Jun 24, 20244 min read


This week at the CRTC
Let's begin with a quote from Albert Einstein, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas...
Ted Woodhead
Jun 6, 20244 min read


Don't mistake activity for achievement!
I begin with a quote that I included in my last post - "don't mistake activity for achievement" - from the late great UCLA Basketball...
Ted Woodhead
May 30, 20245 min read


Winning by losing and other observations
Photo credit Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash I am a keen observer of competition matters before the Competition Bureau, the Competition...
Ted Woodhead
May 17, 20244 min read


"A bad beginning makes a bad ending"
In Homer's Odyssey, Aeolus the mythological ruler of the winds says "A bad beginning makes a bad ending". So I thought of this last...
Ted Woodhead
May 7, 20244 min read


Opinions are opinions and facts are facts
I recall watching a debate featuring U.S. Senator Daniel Moynihan and someone else who is probably lost to history. Something Senator...
Ted Woodhead
May 3, 20245 min read


When virtually everyone thinks there's a problem, it is almost certain there is a problem
On March 26, 2024 Carolyn Rogers, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada gave a speech in Halifax that garnered at great deal of...
Ted Woodhead
Apr 25, 20244 min read


Facts versus myth: Telecom pricing in Canada
I have written previously about the House Committee on Industry's ongoing study into the Accessibility and Affordability of Wireless and...
Ted Woodhead
Apr 11, 20243 min read


Innovation over Regulation - A better idea!
In my post on March 25, 2024, I sought to highlight the comparative advantage that Canada enjoys in its advanced and robust digital...
Ted Woodhead
Apr 8, 20243 min read


Internet and wireless prices in Canada are falling!
In a post on the Teksavvy Blog on March 22nd, Teksavvy's V.P. of Insight and Engagement wrote that "Statscan Telecom Data Paints A False...
Ted Woodhead
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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