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Paul Canniff With the publication yesterday of the revised terms of the government's direction to the CRTC, the Internet Society and Canadians have gained a significant victory. Or so we hope.
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Faith-Based Competition: the end of a false doctrine?
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Internet Society's Intervention in the MVNO hearing
This submission, authored principally be Philip Palmer of the ISCC Board, with the assistance of Matt Gamble, also of our Board, sets out the Society's position on the MVNO reconsideration, in Telecom Notice of Consultation 2019-57. He also devised a new name for facilities-based consultation, shortened to FBC. He called it "faith-based competition". Cruel but fair.
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The Efficiency Defence and the Curse of Bigness
I may be adding two and two and getting seventeen, but I suspect there is a connection between Tim Wu's thesis in "The Curse of Bigness" and a recent article about our Competition Bureau, which is pondering getting rid of the "efficiency defence".
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PKP speaks in Ottawa
Pierre Karl Péladeau, owner and head of Videotron, spoke at the Canadian Club lunch yesterday (Monday April 8, 2019) at the Chateau Laurier. He was unusually charming. The two thrusts of his speech were that
· Internet-based services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime were cutting into the revenues available for Canadian televisual productions, and
- Bell services in Quebec collect much higher royalties per head than does Videotron, assisted both by CRTC actions and its indifference.
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Envy will get me nowhere!
Christine Dobby of the Globe and Mail reported last week that an old colleague of mine from Department of Communications days had committed a no-no by accepting a million dollar contract from the Axis of Evil while still working for the government of Canada. (With apologies to Bell - they are really not that bad).
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