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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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