{"id":1480,"date":"2020-12-01T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadatelecoms.ca\/news\/facilities-based-competition-is-good-policy-and-a-worthwhile-obsession\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T02:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T02:23:02","slug":"facilities-based-competition-is-good-policy-and-a-worthwhile-obsession","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/canadatelecoms.ca\/fr\/news\/facilities-based-competition-is-good-policy-and-a-worthwhile-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilities-based competition is good policy and a worthwhile \u201cobsession\u201d (en anglaise seulement)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Read the full Op-ed by Robert Ghiz here: <\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwta.ca\/facilities-based-competition-is-good-policy-and-a-worthwhile-obsession\/\">Facilities-based competition is good policy and a worthwhile \u201cobsession\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Canada\u2019s regulators have long recognized that facilities-based competition is the best way to achieve the objectives of high-quality services, wide network coverage, and affordable prices. Favouring facilities-based competition has resulted in billions of dollars of private investment, building the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensignal.com\/reports\/2020\/05\/global-state-of-the-mobile-network\">fastest<\/a> mobile wireless networks in the world. Even in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensignal.com\/2019\/09\/25\/the-state-of-rural-canadas-mobile-network-experience\">rural areas<\/a> Canada\u2019s networks perform better than the overall networks in most other countries. This combination of quality and coverage, together with an intensely competitive mobile wireless market evidenced by a steady decline in prices, is why a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/api.ctia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Final-Study.pdf\">report<\/a> commissioned by the U.S. wireless industry association actually ranked Canada\u2019s wireless offerings first for value among the G7 and Australia.<\/p>\n\n<p>Looking ahead, the massive investments required to meet the increasing demand for wireless services, expand coverage to underserved communities, and introduce the next-generation of wireless services, 5G, to Canadians is a key reason not to deviate from policies that prefer facilities-based competition. Yet there remain those who advocate for a deviation from the policies that have produced these positive outcomes.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>[Op-Ed originally published by Cartt on December 1<\/em><em><sup>st<\/sup><\/em><em>, 2020].<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full Op-ed by Robert Ghiz here: Facilities-based competition is good policy and a worthwhile \u201cobsession\u201d Canada\u2019s regulators have long recognized that facilities-based competition is the best way to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-1480","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatelecoms.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatelecoms.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatelecoms.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatelecoms.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatelecoms.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}