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C-10: The Legal Issues II
After the technical Zoom issues were ironed out, the webinar began with a presentation by Konrad von Finckenstein, past president of the CRTC and commissioner…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – The CRTC announced today CA Diffusion, a Laval, Quebec-based company known as Physaro, will pay a $200,000 penalty for making non-compliant telemarketing calls.
An investigation showed CA Diffusion, which “specializes in the direct sale of wellness products geared toward seniors,” violated the Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules several times between September 2018 and July 2019, according to a CRTC press release.
“During that period, millions of unsolicited calls were made to Canadians – some of which were made to telephone numbers registered on the National Do Not Call List (DNCL) and outside of the permissible calling hours,” the release…
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By Denis Carmel
Bill C-10 has turned into a cultural piñata… again.
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) organized a legal conference on Bill C-10 today, which featured two sessions asking the following questions: Does the bill’s section 3 hit the mark as a 21st century broadcasting policy and, will the bill’s grant of discretion to the CRTC ensure implementation of the country’s broadcasting policy?
Vast program.
The first panel was comprised of Doug Barrett, Timothy Denton, Peter Grant and Philip Palmer, which ensured that not only was the topic not covered, instead they provided…
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Shaw asks CRTC to dismiss requests of “opportunistic proponents of delay”
OTTAWA – Bell and Telus both filed letters yesterday with the CRTC supporting the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and National Pensioners Federation’s (PIAC-NPF) procedural request to have the Commission’s public hearings into the broadcasting side of Rogers Communications’s purchase of Shaw Communications delayed.
The hearings are scheduled to begin Nov. 22. PIAC-NPF, Bell and Telus all argued there is too much uncertainty around who controls Rogers for the CRTC to conduct fair hearings that protect the public interest.
Bell, in its letter, called the situation “unprecedented” and said it “places…
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OTTAWA – With control of Rogers Communications now before a B.C. judge, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and National Pensioners Federation has asked the CRTC to hold off on the public hearing into the purchase of Shaw Communications by Rogers Communications.
“The press has reported on a series of events unfolding at Rogers that call into question the legal status of the existing board of directors, and whether the current officers of the company have the confidence of the board of directors or whether they will even remain as officers of…
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DAWSON CITY, WATSON LAKE and UPPER LIARD, Yukon — Northwestel announced today it has launched full fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) Internet service to more than 1,000 homes in three Yukon communities.
Residents and businesses in Dawson City, Watson Lake and Upper Liard “now have access to unlimited data and Internet speeds 16 times greater than previously available,” says a press release.
“Maximum residential Internet speeds in these communities have increased from 15 Mbps to 250 Mbps (download speed) and now far surpass the CRTC’s universal service objective of 50 Mbps,” reads the release.
These are the first fibre upgrades as part of Northwestel’s Every…
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TORONTO — Organizers of the Canadian Telecom Summit confirmed today CRTC chair and CEO Ian Scott (above) will deliver a keynote speech at the upcoming event.
Scott is scheduled to speak on Monday, Nov. 15 from 3:00-3:30 p.m. ET.
In his role at the CRTC, Scott supervises and directs the work and staff of the Commission. He also chairs CRTC meetings and participates in public hearings and consultations. Scott has more than 25 years of policy and regulatory experience in broadcasting and telecommunications both in the public and private sectors, according to his biography on the event’s website.
The Canadian Telecom Summit…
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You can’t fight public interest, he warns
By Amanda OYE
MONTREAL – Pierre Karl Péladeau (above) wants everyone to know Videotron is ready to expand outside Quebec.
“We’re not a Monday morning quarterback – we’ve been there, we’ve done that and we’re ready to go,” said Péladeau in an interview with Cartt.ca.
Péladeau is president and CEO of Quebecor, Videotron’s parent company, and has also been president and CEO of Videotron since June.
Videotron got into mobile back in 2006 when it “started as an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) on Rogers’s network,” he said.
“We, at that time, thought that we would need…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Groupe TVA is asking the country’s highest court to review a case in which it was forced to provide Bell customers its sports signal after it abruptly terminated service in April 2019.
The company applied for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in late September, two months after the Federal Court of Appeal ruled the CRTC has jurisdiction to force Groupe TVA to continue supplying the company’s sports signal during the 2019 NHL playoffs despite parent company Quebecor not agreeing to the financial terms of the distribution agreement.
The Montreal-based company is asking the high…
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Wellness company for seniors fined for telemarketing violations
Tempers flared at PIAC, FRPC webinar on C-10
Crisis at Rogers: Bell, Telus ask CRTC to delay merger hearing, Rogers wants the requests denied (UPDATED)
Rogers crisis: Consumer groups want to delay merger hearing
Northwestel launches FTTH service in three Yukon towns
CRTC chair Ian Scott to speak at CTS
Videotron caught up in “delay game” with incumbents, CEO says
Groupe TVA asks Supreme Court to review sports signal case
