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Wireless Code review, new basic services policy, among CRTC priorities

New three-year planOTTAWA-GATINEAU - The CRTC has released its new three-year plan that includes new basic telecommunications services policy, the Discoverability Summit, and a review of the Wireless Code among its priorities.Other planned activities include licence renewals for French-language and English-language television services, and an effort to continue to promote and enforce the country’s anti-spam legislation (CASL) and the unsolicited telecommunications rules.Those initiatives are among the goals that the Commission has outlined for completion during 2016-19 under the pillars of ‘create’, ‘connect’, and ‘protect’, that it says reflect its commitment to “implementing sound management practices and fulfilling its mandate in a...