IIC 2011: Broadband wholesale access regimes; Still relevant?
OTTAWA – A Canadian and U.S. lawyer squared off on billing for bandwidth at the International Institute of Communications Canada conference yesterday with the American lawyer arguing that while wholesale […]
CBC faces accusations of shifting expenses to hide money from access requests
OTTAWA – Appearing at a Parliamentary committee earlier today to talk about the impact of the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision granting the Information Commissioner access to certain CBC/Radio-Canada documents, […]
CRTC picks capacity-based system, adopts multiple approaches to UBB
GATINEAU – Rather than picking one system over another, the CRTC has chosen to give the large Internet providers the choice in how they charge small competitors who use their […]
SPECTRUM: Make TV white spaces spectrum available on an unlicensed basis, say network operators
OTTAWA – Industry Canada should open up the TV white spaces spectrum in the broadcast band below 698 MHz on an unlicensed-basis, many companies are telling the department in its […]
SPECTRUM: Operators tell Industry Canada to go with light licensing for high-capacity bands
OTTAWA – Industry Canada should avoid prescriptive and burdensome licensing of high-capacity spectrum in the 70 GHz, 80 GHz and 90 GHz ranges, according to comments filed in response to […]
CRTC 2011-206: Rogers, Telus, shift positions on interconnection
GATINEAU – Some consensus around a Rogers Communications proposal for IP to IP connection emerged during the first day of rebuttals Monday at the CRTC’s interconnection hearing. Rogers decided that […]
CRTC 2011-206: Equal access has outlived its purpose, say Yak/Wind
GATINEAU – Yak Communications and Wind Mobile (both of which are owned by Globalive) believe that equal access on wireline and wireless may have outlived its useful purpose. Representatives for […]
CRTC 2011-206: Wireless long distance equal access not worth the effort, says Rogers
GATINEAU – Rogers Communications says the cost and effort required to implement equal access for a wireless CLECs is not worth imposing a similar regulatory requirement on other wireless service […]
CRTC 2011-206: IP interconnection won’t benefit consumers, ILECs tell Commission
GATINEAU – Mandating Internet Protocol interconnection for voice services is unnecessary because doing so will not bring any additional benefits to consumers, three of the country’s incumbent telcos told the […]
Peladeau calls out other media groups for getting into bed with CBC during committee appearance
OTTAWA – Quebecor Media’s CEO used an appearance at a Parliamentary committee to slam not only the CBC/Radio-Canada for its lack of accountability to Canadians, but also other media organizations […]