Regulations

On the European citizen blog Agoravox (love that name), Mark Evans, a Canadian VoIP blogger, gives his analysis of the recent decision by the current Conservative government to deregulate the VoIP market in the country. Although his comment that the “regulation of the traditional local phone market will likely disappear soon” confuses me. To my [...]

The Canadian government is going over the top of the CRTC (Candian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), the equivalent of the US FCC, and ordering them to start deregulating Internet telephony services. The telecom industry in Canada was deregulated in the early 1990s. The repeat performance for IP telephony will mean lots of competition, probably lots [...]