The Canadian telecom industry needs regulatory relief if it is to move seamlessly into the future, an executive with one of the few privately-held companies maintains. Lee Bragg is executive vice chairman of Bragg Communications Inc., which operates Eastlink in seven provinces and in Bermuda.
Being forced to allow competitors to use its network puts Eastlink in a strange position, he says.
“I can understand that as a short-term policy to allow somebody to get into business, to get started,” he tells The Wire Report in a wide-ranging interview. “But for somebody to be able to use my capital, that I had to borrow money from the bank to build a network, and then they get to use at a below my cost rate in order to satisfy a federal policy directive about low prices in the market. It’s not sustainable in the long run.”
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