9(1)(h) Hearing: Only exceptional cases deserve mandatory distribution: PIAC

OTTAWA – Consumer rights group the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) urged the CRTC today to keep basic television service affordable by not asking consumers to pay for “unnecessary” mandatory carriage services. At a Commission hearing today on applications for mandatory distribution on basic television service, PIAC appeared on behalf of the Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC), Council of Senior Citizens’ Organizations of British Columbia (COSCO), and National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation (NPSCF). PIAC asked the CRTC to grant mandatory distribution only in exceptional cases so that consumers would not be burdened with higher costs for TV service. “Canadian...