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Re:The CRTC tries to eliminate ISP competition in Canada by powdercake on Thursday September 24, 2009 @04:17PM (#842070)
The sector may be anti-competitive but it certainly hasn't stifled innovation, at least not across the board. The province I live in is almost the size of Texas with about 1/24 of Texas' population. Yet we'll have 100% broadband penetration by 2011.
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Re:The CRTC tries to eliminate ISP competition in Canada by sdp on Friday September 25, 2009 @04:47PM (#844325)
When Bell was a monopoly, they had a phone in every household which you leased from Bell. Monopolies seem to penetrate the market very well, regardless of their level of innovation so I don't think market penetration should be by any means a measure of innovation.
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