Comments on: Vancouver Geeks Speak Out: Net Neutrality Part 2 http://trishussey.com/2008/10/24/vancouver-geeks-speak-out-net-neutrality-part-2/ Social Media News, WordPress Info and Opinion from Tris Hussey author of Create Your Own Blog, Using WordPress and Teach Yourself Foursquare Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon Husband http://trishussey.com/2008/10/24/vancouver-geeks-speak-out-net-neutrality-part-2/#comment-4530 Jon Husband Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:14:02 +0000 http://www.trishussey.com/2008/10/24/vancouver-geeks-speak-out-net-neutrality-part-2/#comment-4530 I've always wanted to know how much of the private carriers' capital burden over the years has been eased by subsidies, calculated / accounted for in the regulatory rate-setting, mitigated by tax credits, and / or pure-and-simply financed somewhere / somehow out of the public purse. In Canada the telcos (or at least some of them) were not always fully "private" entities either, I don't think, but something akin to crown corporations (BC Tel, AGT, SaskTel, Manitoba Tel, etc.). I suspect that a full and rigorous accounting of all the capital and operational costs of getting the Canadian parts of the Internet (whatever / however one could define THAT) would provide some interesting reading. I’ve always wanted to know how much of the private carriers’ capital burden over the years has been eased by subsidies, calculated / accounted for in the regulatory rate-setting, mitigated by tax credits, and / or pure-and-simply financed somewhere / somehow out of the public purse. In Canada the telcos (or at least some of them) were not always fully “private” entities either, I don’t think, but something akin to crown corporations (BC Tel, AGT, SaskTel, Manitoba Tel, etc.).

I suspect that a full and rigorous accounting of all the capital and operational costs of getting the Canadian parts of the Internet (whatever / however one could define THAT) would provide some interesting reading.

]]> By: Jon Husband http://trishussey.com/2008/10/24/vancouver-geeks-speak-out-net-neutrality-part-2/#comment-11794 Jon Husband Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:14:00 +0000 http://www.trishussey.com/2008/10/24/vancouver-geeks-speak-out-net-neutrality-part-2/#comment-11794 I've always wanted to know how much of the private carriers' capital burden over the years has been eased by subsidies, calculated / accounted for in the regulatory rate-setting, mitigated by tax credits, and / or pure-and-simply financed somewhere / somehow out of the public purse. In Canada the telcos (or at least some of them) were not always fully "private" entities either, I don't think, but something akin to crown corporations (BC Tel, AGT, SaskTel, Manitoba Tel, etc.). I suspect that a full and rigorous accounting of all the capital and operational costs of getting the Canadian parts of the Internet (whatever / however one could define THAT) would provide some interesting reading. I’ve always wanted to know how much of the private carriers’ capital burden over the years has been eased by subsidies, calculated / accounted for in the regulatory rate-setting, mitigated by tax credits, and / or pure-and-simply financed somewhere / somehow out of the public purse. In Canada the telcos (or at least some of them) were not always fully “private” entities either, I don’t think, but something akin to crown corporations (BC Tel, AGT, SaskTel, Manitoba Tel, etc.).

I suspect that a full and rigorous accounting of all the capital and operational costs of getting the Canadian parts of the Internet (whatever / however one could define THAT) would provide some interesting reading.

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