CTS 2007: Action plan on telecom review coming in July, says chair

TORONTO - New CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein joined attendees on the last day of the Canadian Telecom Summit on Wednesday to recap a year of “considerable drama” in the telecom industry and to offer some perspective on what needs to happen next in terms of regulatory review and change. Highlights for the past year included the Ministry of Industry’s policy direction regarding greater reliance on market forces in the telecom industry, the government’s variances of the CRTC’s previous decisions on regulation of local services using Voice over IP and on local service forbearance, and the mandating of an industry-managed,...