Commission to look at mobile TV policy

GATINEAU – The CRTC Thursday asked the industry how it should – or if it should – regulate TV on the mobile phone handset. As reported last month by www.cartt.ca, this issue has been emerging from behind the scenes throughout 2005 as both Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Look Communications announced plans to offer television channels to its mobile customers.When those announcements happened earlier this year, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters sent a letter to the Commission asking it to make a determination as to how TV to the handset should be regulated under the Broadcast Act. “In its letter,...