Cable / Telecom News

Telus wants to speed up TV reg process

OTTAWA - When it does launch its digital television service, Telus doesn’t want to jump through the Commission’s hoops every time it needs to make a competitive move to match Shaw, the western telco has told the CRTC. Telus needs to be competitively nimble, so to have to ask the Commission for permission to make certain programming additions or alterations poses problems, it says, because it won’t be able to respond in a timely enough manner in its markets. When contacted by www.cartt.ca today, and asked about the application, which was filed on December 13, 2004 and only made public...