THAT SOUND YOU HEARD from Ottawa late Wednesday afternoon was that of Industry Minister Maxime Bernier jangling his keys to the shackles Canada's incumbent telephone companies have said repeatedly they are burdened with.The regulations holding back Bell Canada, Telus, Bell Aliant, MTS, SaskTel and the other smaller ILECs are on their way out far sooner than the CRTC perhaps envisioned when it made public its local forbearance decision a year ago tomorrow. In that decision, the Commission set out a number of conditions that had to be met before any traditional incumbent telco could be granted deregulation. Until telcos lost...
