Cable / Telecom News

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Maintaining Canadian telecom control is a must


Dear Greg, I agree with you on a lot of stuff, but I couldn’t disagree with you more on this one.Canada is an act of political will. If we want to be a separate nation with a modicum of cultural sovereignty in a global economy we have to do some things to preserve the instruments of nationhood. Maintaining ownership and control of communications infrastructure is one way to do that. And let’s not kid ourselves, there’s no easy way to allow foreign ownership of telecom without affecting broadcasting. We already have a massive challenge ahead. All the major Internet content...