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Cela signifie que Bell Canada sera tenue de déposer des mises à jour de ses tarifs de fibre occulte, ce qu'elle a évité de faire jusqu'à maintenant, car la dernière chose qu'elle voudrait faire, c'est bien de devoir se conformer à un tarif général de fibre occulte, car alors n'importe lequel de ses concurrents pourrait commander ce produit. Bell serait alors obligée de construire cette fibre occulte, ce saint-graal des télécommunications, et la fournir à ses concurrents.
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In the area of high-speed Internet and in the area of private fibre optic networks one of the great things we have witnessed, last week, is that Bell Canada, for the first time, actually bid on the Commission scolaire des Découvreurs project in Quebec City not with Bell Nexxia, but with Bell Canada, as a result of the current show cause proceeding initiated by CRTC decision 2002-76. That means Bell Canada will be required to file updated rates for dark fibre, which it has been avoiding, because the last thing Bell wants to do is have a general tariff for dark fibre that can be ordered up by any competitor; then Bell must build dark fibre, the holy grail of telecom, and supply that service to competitors. So it's been using Bell Nexxia under the premise, if we build it for public sector and it's not going to compete with us, no problems, but if we have to build it and run the risk of this being used by our competitors, big problem. So that is changing. Gee whiz, it should have been done five years ago, but it's only been happening since last December.
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