UNLOADED COPPER AND Supernet

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UNLOADED COPPERANDSupernet

• STILL NOT AVAILABLE
• .But were working on it

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UNLOADED COPPER

• Best way to connect to Supernet in most areas
• Fiber-like qualities up to 4 kms or more
• Cheap (125 install, 20 per month)
• Fast 1Mb/s to 200 Mb/s (avg. 5 10 Mb/s SDSL)
• Ubiquitous - In almost every building in Alberta
  office, home, warehouse, barns, watertowers,
  schools, hospitals, etc.
• Reliable (copper degrades more slowly than fibre)
• Easily and profitably installed by Telus
  subcontractors.

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The Internet Centre and CRTC

• The Internet first filed its Part VII Submission
  July 11th, 2008 requesting Telus to provide
  copper
• Telus responded, and we responded to that filing
• All submissions finished August 25, 2008
• CRTC decision to be sent to us probably before
  Xmas
• http//www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2008/8622/t114_2
  00809403.htm

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Venture Magazine Article

• Telus Point this proposal just isnt workable
• Incentre Point Of course it is, and such
  services exist in Quebec, Ontario (Bells LDDS
  service), all of the U.S. and other parts of the
  world, and it worked when we provided this
  service around Alberta 3 years before Telus
  started its broadband service.

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.Venture Magazine Article.

• Telus Point we would actually have to degrade
  the cutting-edge services we are now offering
  customers.
• Incentre Point Total Baloney. Incentre asks for
  existing copper where is, how is. CRTC edict is
  that Telus is permitted to remove copper in
  favour of fibre or higher quality service. Our
  request has NO effect on existing or future Telus
  services.

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.Venture Magazine Article.

• Telus Point We are happy to wholesale
  bandwidth. using our infrastructure.
• Incentre Point How do we use Telus wholesale
  infrastructure where there is none such as in
  those approx. 180 communities that Telus in their
  Deferral Account discussion says is not on their
  radar?

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.Venture Magazine Article

• Telus Point Telus is actually in the middle of
  Broadband Build, a 600-million project to
  replace much of our old copper cable with new
  fibre optics,
• Incentre Point Telus is laying new fibre
  ALONGSIDE old copper (POTS is still in use) and
  uses old copper for the last half mile for new
  broadband DSL2 services, piggybacked further
  into the neighborhood on old copper POTS lines.