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Telecom must stop over-building its network infrastructure: Ciciretto

TORONTO - Tony Ciciretto directed a rather unusual question to Canada’s telecom sector – why does it insist on competing in areas where it would make more sense to work together?In a speech on Monday as part of the Toronto Board of Trade’s technology series, the president of Cogeco Data Services said that fierce competition on infrastructure development has served to turn networks into just a commodity. “This may seem like heresy coming from a guy who runs a company that may be best known for its network, but as an industry we are over-building our network infrastructure”, Ciciretto said....