http://www.markevanstech.com/2005/07/11/skype-more-data-please/ A Canadian Take on the Web Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:59:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.markevanstech.com/2005/07/11/skype-more-data-please/#comment-394 Anonymous Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:11:53 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=729#comment-394 Perhaps their executives could leave their social security numbers and credit card expiration dates as well? The only place a large proportion of this information is reported reliably is <a href="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/dcs/eng/2005/form.htm" rel="nofollow">to the CRTC</a>. And they ain't tellin'. (Except <a href="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/dcs/eng/pub_arch.htm" rel="nofollow">significantly aggregated</a>.) It does bring up a problem though. Financial regulators have pretty strict standardized reporting requirements. Industry regulators don't, so companies get away with misleading metrics. Is that good for competition? Perhaps their executives could leave their social security numbers and credit card expiration dates as well?
The only place a large proportion of this information is reported reliably is to the CRTC. And they ain't tellin'. (Except significantly aggregated.)
It does bring up a problem though. Financial regulators have pretty strict standardized reporting requirements. Industry regulators don't, so companies get away with misleading metrics. Is that good for competition?

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