November 29, 2011 13 years ago

IIC 2011: Broadband wholesale access regimes; Still relevant?

OTTAWA - A Canadian and U.S. lawyer squared off on billing for bandwidth at the International Institute of Communications Canada conference yesterday with the American lawyer arguing that while wholesale... Continue Reading

November 24, 2011 13 years ago

CBC faces accusations of shifting expenses to hide money from access requests

OTTAWA - Appearing at a Parliamentary committee earlier today to talk about the impact of the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision granting the Information Commissioner access to certain CBC/Radio-Canada documents,... Continue Reading

November 15, 2011 13 years ago

CRTC picks capacity-based system, adopts multiple approaches to UBB

GATINEAU - Rather than picking one system over another, the CRTC has chosen to give the large Internet providers the choice in how they charge small competitors who use their... Continue Reading

November 10, 2011 13 years ago

SPECTRUM: Make TV white spaces spectrum available on an unlicensed basis, say network operators

OTTAWA – Industry Canada should open up the TV white spaces spectrum in the broadcast band below 698 MHz on an unlicensed-basis, many companies are telling the department in its... Continue Reading

November 7, 2011 13 years ago

SPECTRUM: Operators tell Industry Canada to go with light licensing for high-capacity bands

OTTAWA - Industry Canada should avoid prescriptive and burdensome licensing of high-capacity spectrum in the 70 GHz, 80 GHz and 90 GHz ranges, according to comments filed in response to... Continue Reading

November 1, 2011 13 years ago

CRTC 2011-206: Rogers, Telus, shift positions on interconnection

GATINEAU - Some consensus around a Rogers Communications proposal for IP to IP connection emerged during the first day of rebuttals Monday at the CRTC’s interconnection hearing. Rogers decided that... Continue Reading

October 26, 2011 13 years ago

CRTC 2011-206: Equal access has outlived its purpose, say Yak/Wind

GATINEAU - Yak Communications and Wind Mobile (both of which are owned by Globalive) believe that equal access on wireline and wireless may have outlived its useful purpose. Representatives for... Continue Reading

October 25, 2011 13 years ago

CRTC 2011-206: Wireless long distance equal access not worth the effort, says Rogers

GATINEAU - Rogers Communications says the cost and effort required to implement equal access for a wireless CLECs is not worth imposing a similar regulatory requirement on other wireless service... Continue Reading

October 24, 2011 13 years ago

CRTC 2011-206: IP interconnection won’t benefit consumers, ILECs tell Commission

GATINEAU – Mandating Internet Protocol interconnection for voice services is unnecessary because doing so will not bring any additional benefits to consumers, three of the country’s incumbent telcos told the... Continue Reading

October 20, 2011 13 years ago

Peladeau calls out other media groups for getting into bed with CBC during committee appearance

OTTAWA - Quebecor Media’s CEO used an appearance at a Parliamentary committee to slam not only the CBC/Radio-Canada for its lack of accountability to Canadians, but also other media organizations... Continue Reading