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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19515)	2/11/2007 12:51:38 PM
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Hi Frank - Geist's comments are more nuanced than Goldberg's. michaelgeist.ca IMO Goldberg is projecting a catch-all "free market" bias (which in turn reflects the ideology of the currently-ruling Conservative Party) into the debate. mhgoldberg.com The pivot is here: The Telecommunications Policy Review Panel telecomreview.ca The problem with the "free market" approach (as evidenced in the States) is that it starts from status quo: entrenched players have a major positional advantage, and a "free" and "deregulated" market merely allows them to perpetuate it. If said "free market" approach was preceded or accompanied by steps to ensure equal competitive footing, then the story would be different. To the specific issue of Net Neutrality: I read a fatuous statement that allowing access to all content would impose an unfair burden on providers, affecting such things as QOS adversely. Aha! There it is again: that fallacious reasoning, filled with semantic traps, based on scarcity. Does anybody here believe that with FTTH (or even a subset of same) this argument holds any water? And_there's_the_circularity_of_it: status quo players get to be content arbiters, boosting their profits by arguing scarcity, as they work like beavers to maintain it. Competitive forces can work in telecomms only if governing jurisdictions create TRUE competition. That's the necessary adjunct to deregulation. So Geist's comments encompass the reality, and Goldberg's either evade it, or don't address it at all. Jim