TORONTO – As the CRTC’s three-week hearing on the implementation of the Online Streaming Act got underway Monday in Gatineau, the Motion Picture Association – Canada (MPA-Canada) published results of a new survey it commissioned from spark*insights that shows Canadians see global studios and streaming companies as valuable contributors to Canada’s film and TV sector.
MPA-Canada advocates for the major international producers and distributors of movies, TV and streaming programming in Canada. Some of the global studios it serves include Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery (HBO).
According to spark*insights’s…
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Correction: A previous version of this story erroneously said the CMPA does not believe there should be a mandatory base contribution. In reality, it is asking for a mandatory base of no less than five per cent.
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau said Monday that the stonewalling of the federal government by foreign platforms on legislation that would require them to pay to host news links will likely mean that they will also scoff at any requirement for them to pay a base contribution to Canadian content.
The CRTC is proposing a mandatory base…
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Quebecor announced Monday that Videotron has officially launched its wireless discount brand Fizz in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton as a beta launch.
Canadians in the western provinces can find more details at fizz.ca by selecting Alberta or BC from the website’s top menu.
Fizz is offering deeply discounted plans during the beta including a 40 GB data plan for $4 per month for six months, and a 50 GB plan for $5 per month for six months. Customers need a compatible phone that is VoLTE-certified with Fizz to activate a mobile plan.
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By Ahmad Hathout
Bell has filed Thursday a challenge to the CRTC’s decision to force it to negotiate access to its last mile fibre network, saying it will cause “irreparable harm through the loss of customers and revenues.”
The claim in the Federal Court of Appeal asks for an immediate stay on the CRTC’s decision until the court decides on the case. Bell said it meets the three-part legal test for a stay, including that this is a serious issue to be tried, that this will cause irreparable harm to it, and the balance of convenience leans in its favour over…
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Eastlink says claims are ‘inaccurate’
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Third-party competitors using Eastlink’s network are asking the CRTC to find the cable company guilty of negligence when a network outage this summer that affected tens of thousands of Canadians allegedly caused “significant economic and reputational harm” to them.
Competitors City Wide, Frontier Networks, and Purple Cow Internet allege in the Part 1 application dated November 9 that Eastlink disconnected their customers’ service for 24 hours starting July 3 due to an error caused by a new software update to the company’s billing system that they said incorrectly flagged all of the…
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OTTAWA – Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced Tuesday the appointment of former Videotron executive Stephanie Paquette to the seat of regional commissioner of Quebec for the CRTC.
The lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience in the media industry will begin a five-year term starting November 23 — in the middle of the first week of the commission’s three-week hearing on the implementation of the Online Streaming Act.
Paquette has been Videotron’s senior director of content and strategic partnerships for the past six years and director of that area for seven years before that. That means she was responsible for acquisition…
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OTTAWA – Canadian Heritage has on Tuesday finalized its policy direction to the CRTC on the implementation of the Online Streaming Act.
The final version doesn’t deviate on major goals from the proposal the department put out in June, specifically outlining that social media creators and certain single transactional media, such as video games, will not be regulated.
The CRTC, which already set a $10-million threshold for broadcasters to register basic information with the regulator, said it still would like social media and other media forms, including podcasts, to register so it can monitor their…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau said Thursday that the CRTC must ensure that the final last mile fibre access rates are set appropriately to bolster competition.
Since the CRTC’s decision Monday to allow wholesalers to force negotiations for access on the last bit of Bell’s and Telus’s fibre network to the home, the competitors have been concerned about the rate set for the temporary regime. Some say while it is an important step forward, those interim rates are still significantly higher than what the telcos sell their own services at.
“We are happy that the CRTC has announced its…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said Thursday that the CRTC’s decision to force the large telephone companies to open access to their last mile fibre networks “levels the playing field” with cable carriers who service the bulk of wholesale-based subscribers.
“We’ve been required to wholesale under the regulatory regime high-speed internet for quite some time,” Staffieri said during a third quarter conference call. “So it’s good to see a level playing field.”
The majority of wholesale-based competitors were using the large cable companies’ hybrid fibre-coax networks, which accounts for 75 per cent of all wholesale-based subscriptions, the CRTC said.
The decision…
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