Local TV Day 3 (updated): This is how dire it is; Thunder Bay stations subsisting on former owner’s life insurance
Commission is told small TV stations are living on borrowed time GATINEAU – The local TV environment is so bad for some small independent over the air broadcasters that they […]
Local TV Hearing Day 2: Alternative funding, community involvement, critical for local programming
GATINEAU – The second day of the CRTC hearing into local and community TV delved more into the details of how alternative financing and community TV could be help fix […]
Local TV Hearing: A big rethink is needed in order for local TV to compete, survive
Vice, Eastlink, Channel Zero and Bell offer new ideas to the CRTC Monday GATINEAU – With major and independent broadcasters cutting newsrooms because of high costs and low revenue, there […]
Competitors urge federal cabinet to ignore Bell’s claims; others believe fibre builds will slow down
OTTAWA – Independent ISPs and consumer groups are telling the federal government not to buy Bell Canada’s assertions that investments in next-generation fibre networks will come to a standstill if […]
CRTC must do more to spur independent ISP investment in transport, says Bell
GATINEAU – Without provisions explicitly requiring investment in transport facilities, independent ISPs simply won’t spend the money, contends Bell Canada in reply comments to its appeal of Telecom Regulatory Policy […]
CORRECTED: TekSavvy fails to halt coax removal, or gain broader access to Rogers’ fibre in Toronto neighbourhood
TORONTO – The CRTC has rebuffed an attempt by TekSavvy Solutions to stop Rogers Communications from removing a coax cable network in a Toronto townhouse complex. The independent ISP serves […]
Bell’s unbundled local loop application offside CNOC says
GATINEAU – The Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) says that Bell Canada’s recent application requesting an expansion of the CRTC’s unbundled local loop (ULL) regime needs to be refiled. The […]
Bell wholesale Internet access appeal self serving, misses the point of new regime
GATINEAU – A number of Canada’s Internet service providers are telling the CRTC that Bell Canada’s appeal for more restricted access to disaggregated wholesale fibre Internet access services is self-serving […]
DISCOVERABILITY: How we will find content in our over-the-top, new media world
VANCOUVER – Moods, moments, sentiments, likes and trending. These may be words more commonly associated with social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, but they are increasingly becoming […]
Use wholesale wireline decision to drop regs on unbundled local loops, Bell urges CRTC
GATINEAU – Bell Canada wants the CRTC to expand certain rulings announced in its recent wholesale wireline decision as it relates to two specific types of services. (Ed note: It’s […]