OTTAWA – The Coalition for Competitive Telecommunications said today it too believes the CRTC’s VOIP decision wrong-headed.
"The Coalition argued that users ultimately pay for the entire telecommunications cost…
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SAINT JOHN – Saying it, too, thinks the CRTC’s decision stinks, eastern Canadian telco (and BCE division) Aliant reaffirmed today its commitment to offer voice over Internet protocol (VOIP)…
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OTTAWA – “We’re extremely pleased with the decision,” Chris Pierce, executive vice-president government and regulatory affairs for Manitoba Telecom Services, told www.cartt.ca on Thursday after the VOIP decision…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Communications vice-president, regulatory, Ken Englehart told www.cartt.ca that the CRTC’s demand that cable open up its third party Internet access (TPIA) tariff agreements to explicitly…
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OTTAWA – The Commission’s decision on VOIP was not unanimous, but only a 5-2 decision in favor of maintaining regs on the incumbent telcos.
Commissioner Andree Noel and outgoing…
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OTTAWA – “Why did we find that VOIP is a telephone service? Because Canadians use it as a telephone service,” CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen said today at the Commission’s…
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OTTAWA – Did the industry have this decision pegged or what?
Mere minutes after the CRTC’s voice over IP decision was put out, the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association issued…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association has asked the CRTC to let its members drop FM radio from their carriage requirements.
Specifically, the association wants the Commission to…
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MONTREAL – A $62.9 million revenue increase at Quebecor Media Inc. (home to TVA and Videotron, among other assets) helped offset a decrease at printing division Quebecor World, as…
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OTTAWA – It’s a key decision for the cable and telecom industry and www.cartt.ca will be there.
While the CRTC’s voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) decision itself will…
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