Opinion / Editorial / Analysis

By Mark Goldberg, a telecommunications consultant The headlines were breathless – Canada’s telecom regulator is going to cut the cost of internet services for people living in the far north What the CRTC didn’t say, and what was entirely missed in the coverage, is the regulator wants customers in the

By Len St-Aubin, a policy consultant who has worked for clients including Netflix, and was a member of the policy teams that developed the 1991 Broadcasting Act and the 1993 Telecommunications Act Online streaming has been the goose that laid the golden egg for original Canadian made-for-TV drama, comedy and

By Mark Goldberg, a telecommunications consultant  An opinion piece in Monday’s Globe and Mail included a line that caught my eye. “A 2022 study found that Canada’s wireless rates were the second most expensive in the world – seven times more expensive than Australia, 25 times more expensive than France and

By Konrad von Finckenstein, former chair of the CRTC The passage of C-18 seems certain to lead to a confrontation, lengthy litigation and probable impasse between Google and Meta on one side and the federal government on the other. One way to resolve the issue might be to borrow a

By Caroline Paquet, pictured above, president of Cogeco Media In today’s world where everything is moving too fast, we often take for granted things that seem unchangeable. It’s only when they’re gone that we realize we should have acted while there was still time. Commercial radio stations across the country,

By Jonathan Daniels, pictured above, vice president of regulatory law at Bell The CRTC recently announced the first round of consultations on the implementation of the recently adopted Online Streaming Act. Of the three sectors affected by this legislation – foreign streamers, Canadian producers and Canadian broadcasters – it is

By Samer Bishay, pictured above, founder, president and CEO of telecom Iristel.  On one hand, my telecom company and I have top secret security clearance from the federal government, and yet another part of the Ottawa bureaucracy is convinced we’re crooks. It doesn’t add up. There has been much talk

By Len St-Aubin, pictured above, an independent internet and telecoms consultant whose clients have included streamers, carriers, government, and not-for-profits. Formerly he was director general of telecommunications policy at Industry Canada and a member of the policy teams that developed both the 1991 Broadcasting Act and the 1993 Telecommunications Act.

By Konrad von Finckenstein, pictured above, former CRTC chairman from 2007 to 2012 Bill C-18 was passed by the House of Commons and is now in the Senate. Except for a few minor changes, it was passed as originally presented. In the interim a new chair of the CRTC was

By Bronwyn Howell, a fellow at think tank American Enterprise Institute with a PhD in economics and public policy, an MBA, and a BA in operations research, all from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She has undertaken contract work for Telus.  Canada and Australia are similar in many