wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) (05/03/89)
Well, it looks like more changes to the Canadian telecommunications
system are imminent. This item is taken from the Kitchener-Waterloo
Record of May 2, 1989:
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TORONTO (CP) -- The federal telecommunications watchdog has ruled on the
side of competition in the supplying of private-line telephone service.
A ruling Monday by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission will force Bell Canada, British Columbia Telephone Co. and
Amdahl Canada Ltd. to lose their monopoly over the supply of equipment
for the Dataroute service.
Dataroute is a long-established service used by medium-sized and large
corporations for a variety of functions, including banking, travel
reservations, stock trading and lotteries.
The service works within the confines of a company, unlike public
services, which are available to all.
The CRTC gave Bell and B.C. Tel until July 31 to release previously
confidential signalling information that will allow manufacturers other
than Toronto-based Amdahl to supply what is known as digital channel
terminating equipment.
This equipment, with related pieces, codes and decodes data and connects
a corporation's private lines to the public telephone system.
The issue of private-line services was brought before the CRTC by
Paradyne Canada Ltd., part of AT&T.
Paradyne first went before the CRTC a year ago. That company argued the
existing arrangement gave Bell and Amdahl an unfair advantage, and that
Dataroute customers would benefit from the introduction of competition
into that market.
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