OTTAWA – While some might say that a review of the Broadcasting Act and Telecom Act has more or less already begun with Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s “everything is on the table” consultations on Canadian Content in a Digital World, the federal government’s 2017 budget, released Wednesday, confirmed that a more formal review will begin this year.
While Minister Joly and the federal government have not given any formal indications on where her consultation will lead when it comes to new law or policies (so far, just a detailed summary of her cross-country consultations has been released), the budget…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC estimates that its regulatory costs under section 9(1) of the broadcasting regulations will total $29.723 million for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.
The annual adjustment amount referred to in section 8(2) for the 2015-2016 fiscal year is a loss of $2.121 million. A second adjustment pertaining to the 2016-2017 fiscal year in the amount of $0.014 million is being made following the revision of the Part I billing for two broadcasting undertakings. Part I broadcasting licence fees were recalculated and the adjustment is being invoiced to the other broadcasting undertakings.
Taking this adjustment into account, the net billing for…
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GATINEAU – In honour of Canada’s 150 birthday, the CRTC unveiled the names of 23 trailblazers that have helped shape the Canadian communications system. Representing a broad cross section of Canadian society, they come from the broadcasting and telecommunications worlds as well as science and journalism.
Well-known personalities such as Ted Rogers, founder of Rogers Communications, Israel (Izzy) Asper, founder of CanWest Global and Harold Greenberg, one of the founders of Astral Media made the list.
Jeanne Sauvé, Canada’s first woman Governor General and one of the first women to make a career in television, was selected. Also making the list…
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WOODSTOCK, en Ontario – Que ce soit avec de la fibre, du coaxial, du sans-fil ou du cuivre – sur leurs propres réseaux ou comme un fournisseur de gros – Execulink sert ses clients par tous les moyens possibles.
C’est la devise qui a été transmise sur quatre générations dans la famille Stevens, propriétaire de la compagnie et ses prédécesseurs. « Nous desservons chaque catégorie de clients, » raconte le PDG Ian Stevens, dans une interview avec Cartt.ca à Woodstock, le siège social de la compagnie, en Ontario. « Sur une route, vous pouvez croiser un agriculteur, quelqu'un qui vit dans une petite…
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WOODSTOCK, Ont. – Be it fibre, coaxial, wireless, or copper – on their own networks, or as a wholesale provider – Execulink will serve customers by any means possible.
That’s the mantra which has been passed down through four generations of Stevens family members who have run the company or its predecessors. “We service every client category,” said CEO Ian Stevens, in an interview with Cartt.ca at the company’s Woodstock, Ont. headquarters. “You drive down a road and you go from a farmer to somebody who’s living in a small community for a lifestyle, to a retired person, to a…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is once again wading into the tussle between Bell Canada and the City of Hamilton over its municipal access agreement (MAA).
An MAA sets out the terms and conditions of a carrier’s access to highways and other public places under a municipality’s jurisdiction that is required to provide telecommunications services, including broadcasting services, to the public.
After both parties disputed the interpretation of their current MMA’s clause relating to the vertical location of underground facilities, the Commission said Friday that “there is merit in reviewing the obligations” addressed in that clause. It therefore issued a call for comments on whether…
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OTTAWA – An individual named William Rapanos has been dinged for $15,000 after the CRTC found that he committed ten violations of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL).
The Commission said that it conducted an investigation after the Spam Reporting Centre received numerous complaints between July 8 – October 16, 2014 about emails that appeared to have been sent by Rapanos advertising a design, printing, and distribution service for commercial flyers.
Despite an appeal by Rapanos, the Commission said Thursday that it found, on a balance of probabilities, that he sent commercial electronic messages (i) that did not identify the sender, (ii) that…
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EN 1983, PLUS DE 30 ans après l’arrivée de la télévision dans les foyers des grandes villes canadiennes, les résidents de Lac-Beauport et de Lac-Saint-Charles, au pied des Laurentides dans la région de Québec, n’avaient toujours pas de réception. Un groupe de citoyens a formé une coopérative et postulé pour un permis auprès de la CRTC. Deux ans plus tard, la Coopérative de câblodistribution de l’arrière-pays (CCAP) comptait déjà 3000 abonnés. Trente ans plus tard, forte de ses 17000 abonnés, la coopérative est toujours là.
À partir d’un bureau à Charlesbourg, en banlieue de Québec, la CCAP fournit des services…
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IN 1983, MORE THAN 30 years after the first CBC and Radio-Canada television broadcasts began connecting Canadian cities, residents of Lac-Beauport and Lac-Saint-Charles, communities at the foot of the Laurentian Mountains near Québec City, still had no TV reception. So they formed a cooperative, applied for a CRTC licence and began working toward setting up their own distribution network. By 1985, the Coopérative de câblodistribution de l’Arrière-Pays (or Backcountry Cable Distribution Network, known by its French acronym CCAP) had 3,000 subscribers. Thirty years later, it’s still there, and thriving.
The company provides TV, internet and landline telephone service to over…
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LAST WEDNESDAY, THE CRTC ordered Sugar Mobile, a discount wireless services provider, to stop its unauthorized use of Rogers Communications’ wireless network. The telecommunications regulator found that Ice Wireless, Sugar Mobile’s sister company, had “improperly allowed the end-users of cellular network.”
The CRTC’s decision is welcome news, and reaffirms its commitment to promote facilities-based competition in Canada’s wireless sector.
Ice Wireless is a wireless service provider operating in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. It owns a wireless network in the territories, but has a roaming…
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