[Newsbot]

Title: Ottawa pitches new consumer-focused direction for CRTC
Category: Tech
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2022-05-27 07:02:24
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

If the new direction is consumer focusing, what was it before? Hmmmm?

[Tricks]

Surely that will happen.

[herbie]

It was focused on the stockholders.

Like the ones who sit on the board and attend champagne lunches. The ones who think 'up to 25GB use" means the same as "unlimited".

[Scape]

The cabal of Telus/Rogers/Bell have a direct impact on who sits on this board and what topics that can look into.

[herbie]

but but but the only solution must be to let T-mobile in and offer 1 GB more for $1 less and suck billions out of Canada....

[Zipperfish]

The new policy is a smoke screen for this:

Indie internet providers warned for months CRTC decision would kill them — now they’re beginning to disappear

Essentially, rather than handling the large cause of problems (anti-competitive market, oligopoly) it is trying to tackle the symptoms (consumer issues as a result of an anti-competitive market). Not all bad, but doesn't really address foundational problems.