In my personal opinion, Sasktel is just a company. Just like every
other telco in Canada.
They want to gain more customers, and they want to retain the
customers they have. And just like everyone other 'kind benevolent'
telco in Canada, they want to make money selling their services.
Be that dropping their price on a service, because it would bring in
more customers - or offering an alternative service like VOIP.
No company wants to be forced to price their products higher to retard
their growth, just like no company would choose to lease or sell their
existing infrastructure at anything other than a pricepoint that would
result in a profit for them.
As an example - a lot of the Sasktel Max pay-per-view and movie
channels were originally a leased stream from none other than Shaw.
Shaw, as the effective owner of those services, was unwilling to
resell them at cost to competitors. Instead they chose to charge a
price which most people found to be VERY high - and yet nobody can
really blame them for it. It's their product, their service, and
they'd rather not resell it to a competitor at no benefit to their
company.
But alas, Shaw isn't a big evil incumbent telco - so nobody cries
foul. Instead it's fair business practice.
On 12/8/06, Dave Hall <dave-slg@dnh.sk.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 01:11:33PM -0600, Keith Snape wrote:
> > That being said, I have no idea what regulatory agency would be
> > involved - and if it's provincial or federal. It wouldn't suprise me
> > to be told that the CRTC was involved, but I'm honestly not sure.
>
> So, are you saying it's the CRTC's fault that the barriers to enter the
> marketplace (for local service)? Can you suggest why carriers have had
> easier access to NXX in other provinces irrespective of the size of their
> operation (eg Navigata was a micro-carrier in BC before being bought out by
> SaskTel). Perhaps it's just Ottawa (from the Liberal days) getting back at
> us for not electing enough Liberals ... or perhaps it's just SaskTel
> struggling to hold on to their monopoly.
>
> The phrase "own the customer" is standard in the telecom industry. Is Sask-
> Tel a kind benevolent telco compared to every other one in Canada and the
> world?
>
>
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> Dave
>
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