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 require regulatory treatment within the next five years.
“The purpose of setting out these mid-term regulatory considerations resulting from technological change is to demonstrate the inter-linkages between these issues and the current regulatory agenda and to stimulate discussion and consideration of a coherent approach to regulation that iteratively evolves a framework that reflects new realities”, reads the document’s overview.
The goal of the lengthy report is to provide background information that can be “enhanced” as new information becomes available, and to give the Commission a head start in the consideration of the issues, the overview continues.
Click here to view the full report.
