Cable / Telecom News

Government wants market forces to rule telecom

TORONTO – The Canadian Telecom Summit's "regulatory blockbuster" session is a must-view event every year. This year was no different as regulatory chiefs from Bell Canada (Mirko Bibic), Rogers Communications (Ken Englehart), Telus (Janet Yale), Shaw Communications (Jean Brazeau), and MTS Allstream (Chris Peirce) traded barbs for over an hour about the competitive state of the industry, and just whom is benefiting most from the current state of regulation. It was funny and terse and interesting. ("Ken Englehart's has such a learned and scholarly style, you automoatically think what he's saying must be true, even though it isn't," said Yale,...