Telus adds to national digital strategy debate

TORONTO – As stakeholders ponder Canada’s national digital strategy, Telus took the process a step further.In a white paper presented earlier this week at the nextMedia conference in Toronto, the telco suggested that the broadband networks could be the “building blocks to support a digital media ecosystem”.It proposed the following ten principles to help guide the on-going debate:- Noting that the government cannot afford to fund the next generation of broadband infrastructure, Telus said that Canada should “trust the market” to do so by encouraging private sector investment.- It proposed that government find “smart ways”, such as through revenues from the next spectrum auction,...