Let me highlight the most important of these decisions. In 1992, we opened long distance market to competition. In May 1997, we opened our local market to competition. This goes far beyond making sure plain old telephone service is in place. As part of this decision, the CRTC mandated co-location.
Competitors can place their equipment in telephone company central offices.
This helped competitors to offer digital subscriber lines at a competitive advantage and furthered the growth of more competitors. For high-speed cable, the CRTC required those companies offering service to tariff access to it by third parties where it is technically possible. To this end, the industry formed a technical committee to develop the common technical solutions necessary to implement the Commission's decision. On May 17 of this year, the CRTC issued its new media decision on May 17. It provided the framework for regulatory policy for new media going forward.