Wheels fall off decision for dissenters Wylie, Noel

OTTAWA - The Commission’s decision on VOIP was not unanimous, but only a 5-2 decision in favor of maintaining regs on the incumbent telcos. Commissioner Andree Noel and outgoing vice-chair broadcasting Andree Wylie both disagreed with the decision, saying that voice over Internet protocol is not just another way to make a phone call, but something fundamentally different. “It is my view however that, in this case, the Commission failed, in its decision not to forbear from imposing tariffs for the provision of local VOIP service by the ILECs, to give sufficient consideration… to the specific functional and service attributes...