Post Tagged with: "crtc"

Montreal Gazette on Canadian Wireless Services

The Montreal Gazette gives its review of the Ted Rogers vs. Pierre-Karl Péladeau speeches, Bell's new "unlimited" data service, and the missing iPhone.

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September 24, 2007 2 comments News

Canadian Broadcasting Policy For a World of Abundance

Appeared in the Toronto Star on September 24, 2007 as Broadcasters Must Adapt to New Media Reality Soon after taking over as chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Konrad von Finckenstein commissioned Laurence Dunbar and Christian Leblanc, two leading broadcasting lawyers, to conduct a comprehensive review of Canada's […]

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September 24, 2007 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

System Access Fee Class Action Seeks Billions in Compensation

The Toronto Star reports that a Saskatchewan court has certified a class action against the major telecommunications companies over the widespread use of "system access fees", a deceptive monthly charge added to cell phone bills that appears to be government mandated, but isn't (I touched on it in a column […]

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September 19, 2007 40 comments News

Diversity of Voices Hearing, Day One

Plenty of coverage of the first day of the CRTC's Diversity of Voices hearing, starting with the Tyee on the "big showdown" as well as conflicting views from the CBC and CTV & Canwest.

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September 18, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Dunbar/Leblanc Report on Broadcasting Policy Released

The CRTC has released a major report on Canadian broadcasting reform.  The 337 page report recommends re-examining substitution rules, discusses the link between broadcast and copyright, and provides some solid recommendations on new media including "the solutions to this issue [new media] lie not in imposing new regulatory restrictions on […]

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September 13, 2007 Comments are Disabled News