http://www.markevanstech.com/2005/05/13/crtc-voip-silly-rule/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:55:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.markevanstech.com/2005/05/13/crtc-voip-silly-rule/#comment-266 Anonymous Fri, 13 May 2005 14:49:32 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=565#comment-266 Mark - I think you are spot on. The CRTC does not seem to have a clue here. And as for the cable companies, of course they are sayign that they won't sell below cost because they want to maintain their winning end of the CRTC decision. As I understand it the cost of terminating a phone call in Canada is zero. You only have to pay for the access technology, the long distance transport, and whatever fees are required to have a license and get phone numbers from some database (gov't controlled?) PacketCable is VoIP ready, so all cable modem infrastructure is pretty much going to support VoIP for next to nothing. So other than cost of customer acquisition, what are the costs? Well, look at skypeIn as an example. 30 Euros per YEAR is the cost for them to take PSTN calls and route them to a skype user. That includes the phoen number. I bet the cost to support a voice customer in Canada (over cable modem) is cheaper than CAD $50/yr. This considers no LD charges, but even those are peanuts since the cable guys will share their networks with each other and skip the PSTN for the LD and terminate in the destination city. So unless the cable guys are selling VoIP for less than $5/month I doubt they are losing money (depending on how you account for costs) Mark - I think you are spot on. The CRTC does not seem to have a clue here. And as for the cable companies, of course they are sayign that they won't sell below cost because they want to maintain their winning end of the CRTC decision. As I understand it the cost of terminating a phone call in Canada is zero. You only have to pay for the access technology, the long distance transport, and whatever fees are required to have a license and get phone numbers from some database (gov't controlled?) PacketCable is VoIP ready, so all cable modem infrastructure is pretty much going to support VoIP for next to nothing. So other than cost of customer acquisition, what are the costs? Well, look at skypeIn as an example. 30 Euros per YEAR is the cost for them to take PSTN calls and route them to a skype user. That includes the phoen number. I bet the cost to support a voice customer in Canada (over cable modem) is cheaper than CAD $50/yr. This considers no LD charges, but even those are peanuts since the cable guys will share their networks with each other and skip the PSTN for the LD and terminate in the destination city. So unless the cable guys are selling VoIP for less than $5/month I doubt they are losing money (depending on how you account for costs)

]]> http://www.markevanstech.com/2005/05/13/crtc-voip-silly-rule/#comment-265 François Fri, 13 May 2005 01:14:28 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=565#comment-265 I have Bell Digital Voice and I want Primus as my LD carrier. I'm calling tonight to have Bell switch me to Primus ;) I have Bell Digital Voice and I want Primus as my LD carrier.
I'm calling tonight to have Bell switch me to Primus

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