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Radiant Communications recognizes CRTC Decision

^{Published on 2010-09-03 10:15:46 - Market Wire}
 

 - Approval of speed matching so that independent Internet Service Providers (ISP's) can match the speeds of the incumbent retail internet access offerings. - Allowed incumbent telephone carriers a 10% higher cost of capital for new higher speed wholesale internet access services. - Agreed that a duopoly of telephone and cable companies' retail internet access is insufficient, and that wireless and satellite services are not yet attractive enough as large scale substitutes for wireline access - Has taken steps to make the cable companies' wholesale offering knows as Third Party Internet Access ( TPIA ) more useful and attractive in a number of ways for those who lease it. - Found that smaller competitors bring pricing discipline, innovation and consumer choice to the interenet services market.