Yesterday I posted on the government’s internal analysis on the constitutional risks associated with digital lock rules found in Bill C-11 including the constitutional warnings issued by the Department of Justice. The same document obtained under the Access to Information Act also notes that the Competition Bureau raised concerns about […]
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Wind Mobile Founder: No Political Will For Telecom Competition
Wind Mobile founder Naguib Sawiris is in the news today for comments about his regret of investing in Canada and frustration with the government’s commitment to competition. Sawiris says “there’s no real political will here to introduce competition into this closed market” adding that he won’t bid on in the […]
Why Competition Holds the Key to a Broken Broadcast System
Appeared in the Toronto Star on July 3, 2011 as Why Competition Holds the Key to a Broken Broadcast System As the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission concludes its hearing on the consolidation of the Canadian communications market into a handful of corporate giants (so-called vertical integration) and embarks on […]
Katz Calls for Competition Commission Intervention in Access Copyright Case
University of Toronto law professor Ariel Katz has written to the Copyright Board of Canada asking it to seek the intervention of the Commissioner of Competition in the Access Copyright transactional licence case.
Solving Canada’s Uncompetitive Internet Will Take More Than CRTC Reversal
Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 6, 2011 as The Real Reason We Pay So Much For Internet Last week, public concern with Internet bandwidth caps hit a fever pitch as hundreds of thousands of Canadians signed petitions against Internet provider practices of “metering†Internet use. The government responded […]
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