Cartt.ca Investigates: Net Neutrality as the foundation of new communications legislation

By Perry Hoffman

Part VI in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom ActsTODAY’S COMMUNICATIONS WORLD is marked by a few large, vertically integrated companies offering Internet access, broadcasting, telecommunications and wireless services. These firms have considerable control over who has access to their networks and what content is available over their respective pipes.This means governments and regulators must ensure smaller independent competitors have access to these networks and to make this access as competitively neutral as possible. Even more, the big owners of those networks shouldn’t be able to favour some content over others. This, in a nutshell, is net neutrality,...