Cable / Telecom News

VOIP’s window of opportunity

MONTREAL – A new report authored for Videotron released today says that voice over Internet protocol telephony offers a unique window of opportunity for real competition in the Canadian voice marketplace. Videotron, not surprisingly, calls the CRTC’s May 12th decision on the regulation of VOIP-delivered telephony the right one. “In its decision, the CRTC recognized the potential of VoIP technology to finally bring meaningful entry into the local telephone market, eight years after this market was formally opened to competition. At the same time, the CRTC purposefully refrained from a premature deregulation of VoIP services offered by the former telephone...