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ISP Summit 2021: CRTC “obsessed” with facilities-based competition, regulatory panelist says


Panelists talk C-10, competition and of course, the Rogers/Shaw deal By Lynn Greiner TORONTO – Every ISP Summit, a highlight session is the regulatory panel. The CRTC always seems to generate enough controversy to make the panel entertaining as well as interesting. This year was no different. Moderated by Monica Auer, executive director of the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications, the panel featured two CRTC alumni who are less than impressed with the way the organization has operated recently. Konrad von Finckenstein, a consultant and arbitrator, was CRTC chair from 2007 to 2012, and Timothy Denton, now chairman...