[oclug] OT: We need your help -- CRTC Ruling would challenge telecom competition

[Brett Delmage]

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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:47:20
From: TekSavvy Solutions Inc <support at teksavvy.com>
Subject: We need your help -- CRTC Ruling would challenge telecom competition

(Une version française de ce couriel sera envoyé plus tard aujourd'hui.)

Hello,

We need your help -- we need you to lend us your voice and state your opinion 
on a recent CRTC decision that could allow the incumbent phone companies (such 
as Bell and Telus) to discontinue offering services (Internet and phone) to 
wholesale providers which in effect would eliminate competition in Canada.

With no competition to help fuel the market; Internet innovation could come to 
stand still and prices for broadband access could skyrocket out of control. 
The incumbents would also be free to do with the lines as they please.  This 
would open up future privacy invading Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies 
and direct marketing/advertising based on *you* and *your families* internet 
activities and habits.

They could also use this same technology to turn the Internet into a 
pay-per-website service the same way that TV is a pay-per-channel service. Can 
you imagine a world where you have to pay to use the Google website to search 
for information?  Then, if you find what you are looking for you may be 
restricted to the content because your ISP doesn't have a "peering" agreement 
with said company.

Please help us stop this major potential catastrophe.

All concerned consumers please visit:
http://www.competitivebroadband.com/consumer/

All concerned businesses please visit:
http://www.competitivebroadband.com

Read the information presented and decide for yourself.

Once you've decided what you think is right, you can click the "Make a 
Difference" link, fill out the form with your details and send a pre-written 
message to Minister of Industry Tony Clement, Prime Minister Harper, the 
Opposition Leader, and your local MP or choose to write your own.

Together we can make a difference.
Thank you,
TekSavvy Solutions, Inc.