The 2023-56 proceeding has seen hundreds of comments in favour of access to FTTP facilities by individuals. Out of all of the comments my helper evaluated there were only 2 against providing access to incumbent FTTP -- one was a comment by a Rogers director, while the other was an incoherent rant that seemed completely misdirected.
The CRTC now has to rebuild competition from scratch. Absent that, they will have to go back to regulating retail prices as was the case back in the 1980s. Nothing beats 15 years of policy failure.
My own company is in a hard place. Our first 3 big builds were failures due to permit shenanigans. Now I'm stuck out in the cold waiting for Hydro One to get its act together, which is increasingly looking like it's not going to happen. My only hope is that the CRTC actually takes action this time.
