Cable / Telecom News

Vertical Integration Primer: “We need new rules” vs. “No, we don’t”

THE INCENTIVES FOR THE great, big vertically integrated Canadian cabletelbroadcellcasters to act unfairly towards everybody else has become too great to ignore and new protections against potential perils are needed, say many companies in their submissions to the CRTC ahead of June’s hearing into vertical integration.(Editor's note: This preview originally ran on April 29th. We're re-running it here as a preview of the hearing, which gets under way Monday in Ottawa with Rogers first up. As usual, Cartt.ca will be there. But if you can't be there, it will be streamed live on cpac.ca - and available for replay the following...