Wireline deregulation: The Canadian experience

Paul Beaudry

Telecommunications Policy, 2010, vol. 34, issue 10, 606-615

Abstract: Changes in the state of telephony markets paved the way for significant regulatory and legislative reforms in the telecommunications sector in the 1990s. In Canada, the 1993 Telecommunications Act was enacted to promote the emergence of competitors in a market that had until then been dominated by regional monopolies. This paper examines the Canadian telecommunications regulatory framework and analyzes the regulatory privileges given to new entrants at the expense of former telecommunications monopolies. Such regulations, which were meant to induce competition, ended up hurting consumers and distorting the market process. This paper also shows how the Canadian government recently eliminated many of those regulations by seizing control of the policy agenda from the telecommunications regulator.

Keywords: Economic; regulation; Deregulation; Wireline; telephony; Unbundling; VoIP; Forbearance; CRTC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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