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CRTC issues document on convergence of telecom, broadcasting


OTTAWA – The CRTC has issued a report examining telecommunications, broadcasting, and the evolving converged world of communications in an effort to help shape future regulation.Called Navigating Convergence: Charting Canadian Communications Change and Regulatory Implications, the document seeks to:- compile cultural, economic and technological trends toward convergence, to reflect the pace at which change is occurring and to present the resulting challenges and opportunities for traditional regulatory models;- outline the high-level structural changes and regulatory considerations that will need to be navigated between now and 2014; and - provide a specific, but not exhaustive, list of mid-term issues that are expected to...