Commission urged to consider mobile data services and traffic management in separate proceeding

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA - Wireless industry stakeholders are calling on the CRTC to initiate a separate review of the mobile data services framework and its applicability under the recently established Internet traffic management practices (ITMP) framework, rather than include the matter in a broader consultation on certain legacy telecom obligations. They say the matter is largely administrative in nature and can be best handled separately. “It would be a lot simpler in my mind to have dealt with that in a very small paper proceeding,” Michael Hennessy, Telus’ senior VP of regulatory and government affairs said in an interview. “I suspect it’s...