Canada deregulates VoIP services

Source: voipcentral.org

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Here is some good news for the VoIP service providers of Canada. They will now operate under a deregulatory regime as the Canadian government has overturned Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions (CRTC) proposal that could impose restrictions upon the VoIP market.

Maxime Bernier, the federal minister of industry confirmed Ottawa is rejecting a CRTC decision to regulate the emerging technology of IP telephony services.

He said,

Barriers to entry in this market are very low. There is no reason to regulate it.

The CRTC came up with a surprising move in May 2005 to regulate VoIP services like the traditional phone services and put restrictions on countrys big telecommunications corporations to enable small players to compete and survive in the market.

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Published on November 16th, 2006 under ,

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