MTS Allstream Submits Comments On Government's Proposed Policy Direction To The

MTS Allstream CEO Pierre Blouin said: "The US experience makes it clear that high wholesale rates impede competition and redirect capital to the market participant with the least incentive to innovate - the former monopoly. We have urged the Minister to consider an alternative approach to wholesale access that is technologically and competitively neutral, and that has been proven in the UK and elsewhere to actually enhance competition and result in greater innovation, lower prices and better products and services for consumers and businesses." In reaching this conclusion, MTS Allstream have drawn on the analysis of Dr. Lee Selwyn, a leading international authority on telecommunications economics, regulation and public policy. Selwyn said: "The Canadian telecommunications industry is at a crossroads. The largest former monopolies are seeking broad scale deregulation and the obliteration of wholesale network access for competitors. This will lead Canada down the same disastrous path that has been the outcome of the intense political lobbying by the Regional Bells in an effort to maintain their historic monopolies in the US telecom market." http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2006/16/c6235.html

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