"Four months later, on October 7, 2004, the Commission published the Telus applications and established November 12, 2004 as the deadline for the receipt of public comments (Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2004-76). Assuming for the sake of argument the Commission approves these applications and issues its decisions by February 1, 2005, it will have taken another eight months for Telus to receive the authority simply to match more of the same services that the incumbent cable BDU has been offering in the same markets for some time," it says.