OTTAWA – Timothy Denton, a specialist in legal and policy issues related to the Internet and communications, has been appointed as CRTC commissioner, Canadian Heritage announced Friday.
He was involved with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the governance of the domain name industry and helped introduce long-distance voice competition in Canada as counsel to the Canadian Consumers’ Association.
From 1985 to 1987, Denton was involved with the creation of the Broadcasting Act and later took part in the creation of the Telecommunications Act while working as a policy advisor to the Minister of Communications from 1985 to 1988.
He worked on radio licensing issues for Lanser Wireless in the mid-1990s and access to the underlying telecommunications facilities for the Canadian Internet service providers (ISP) industry when he was solicitor for the Canadian Association of Internet Providers from 1996 to 1998. He’s currently working on telecom issues for a coalition of ISPs. Before commencing his new role with the CRTC, he will complete his work for the Internet society.
Ron Williams, a former CRTC commissioner, left the regulator last month.
