Altering the Acts: It’s the Internet, stupid
THE BROADCAST AND TELECOM Legislative Review panel has received some 2,000 interventions and they had decided to make them public. The news release on September 24th read “These written submissions […]
Altering the Acts: Continuing our dive into the submissions to the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review panel
Panel won’t make them public until June CARTT.CA HAS BEEN TOLD Navdeep Bains, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Minister, has decided to keep the public submissions made to the […]
Altering the Acts: Our first look at the submissions from the big companies (except two) to the expert panel
WE DON’T YET KNOW what public process the expert panel reviewing Canada’s Broadcasting, Telecom and Radiocommunication Acts, headed by Janet Yale, will follow as this year unfolds. So, when the […]
Altering the Acts: CRTC files early, wants clarity of new powers in new laws
OTTAWA – While it is still unclear how the interventions to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) Panel will be made public and when, the CRTC published its comments one day […]
Internet Code, a third code, may be confusing for some
TWO YEARS AGO, on December 21, 2016, the CRTC acknowledged the increasing importance of Internet services to Canadians in Telecom Regulatory Policy 2016-496, in which the Commission defined fixed and […]
Wireless market comparisons: New study slams ISED report; which is right?
By Denis Carmel The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist; The Second Law of Economists: They’re both wrong… An economist is someone […]
Legislative review panel launches videos
OTTAWA – The Broadcasting and Telecommunications Review (BTLR) panel released three videos last week to help explain the Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Acts. These videos we prepared by panel members […]
All I want for Christmas is? A telecommunications price comparison report
‘TIS THE SEASON for telecommunications pricing studies: In the next two weeks, a trio of important reports will be made public: The CRTC Telecommunications Monitoring Report, the OECD Digital Economy […]
Super Bowl Ads: 51½ minutes plays second fiddle to administrative law
OTTAWA – On the third day of a hearing ostensibly into the CRTC’s Super Bowl simsub decision and the Vavilov spy case, those two individual cases took an even lesser […]
“Reasonable” or “correct” or both?
OTTAWA – They say you can’t infer an outcome from the line of questioning and the tone of the questions. That goes for the Supreme Court as well as for […]