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CCSA Connect 2022: Broadband Fund to be reviewed, more applicants likely to be sought, CRTC vice-chair says

Patience is appreciated on CRTC proceedings related to barriers to broadband deployment By Amanda Oye MONT-TREMBLANT – As the Canadian communications industry faces (yet another) period of immense change, CRTC interim vice-chair of broadcasting and commissioner for Quebec, Alicia Barin (above), applauded the resiliency of the members of the Canadian Communication Systems Alliance and assured them they are being heard on important CRTC files. Speaking today at CCSA’s 2022 Connect conference, Barin pointed out CCSA members are no strangers to challenges or change. She spoke of their resiliency, recalling “the “death stars” of the early 1990s… the term applied to...